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Community based flood risk management approach in Northeastern Uganda
(Ghana Journal of Geography, 2022-06)
This study was conducted in the Amuria district of Northeastern Uganda. The aim of the study was to assess the performance of Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) approach in mitigating disaster effects in the ...
Factors affecting the adoption of soil and water conservation practices by small-holder farmers in Muyembe Sub-County, Eastern Uganda
(Ghana Journal of Geography, 2022-08)
Farmers in tropical rural areas are confronted with several challenges but outstanding among these challenges is soil degradation arising from soil erosion. This study involved identifying the dominant soil and water ...
Evolution of multi-disciplinary philosophies of method: colonial antecedents and post-colonial paradigm shifts
(Springer International Publishing, 2023-08)
The hegemony of the natural and biological sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries coincided with the entrenchment of positivism as a superior methodology in knowledge acquisition and justification. Positivism ...
Fluidity and hybridity of customary marriage traditions in contemporary Uganda
(E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (EHASS), 2023-03)
The ideology that customary marriages are celebrated according to ancestral
traditions and customs is rife in Africa. There is however continuous invention
and evolution of institutions associated with customary marriage ...
Sugarcane plantations and the alienation of land from smallholder farmers through out-grower schemes in Busoga Sub-Region in Eastern Uganda
(Journal of African Studies, 2023)
Despite wide research on land grabbing in Africa, much of the existing
literature restricts the practice mainly to a situation where land is leased
or sold to outside investors for the production of food and biofuel ...
Intersecting RUSLE modelled and farmers perceived soil erosion risk in the conservation domain on mountain Elgon in Uganda
(Elsevier, 2020-11)
This study investigated the intersection between empirically derived and farmers perceived soil erosion risk in a medium-sized catchment on the Ugandan side of mountain Elgon. We postulated that farmers' perception of soil ...
Spatio-Temporal Variations in Water Quality and Fish Assemblages in Odoponyi Seasonal Stream as a response to disturbance from Selected Agricultural Landscapes in Tororo, Uganda
(Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2023-09)
This study investigated the Spatio-Temporal Variations in Water Quality and Fish Assemblages
in Odoponyi Seasonal Stream as a response to disturbance from Selected Agricultural Landscapes. Six sampling
campaigns were ...
Resilience of persons with disabilities to climate induced landslide hazards in the vulnerable areas of Mount Elgon, Uganda
(International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2022-10)
The resilience of persons with disabilities in landslide-prone areas is not well understood. Moreover, these disasters are persistent and this information is vital in enhancing socioeconomic transformation of the livelihoods ...
Persons with disabilities and resilience: coping with environmental hazards case of landslides in Mount Elgon region, Uganda
(Taylor and Francis- Environmental Hazards,, 2022)
Adverse impacts on persons with disabilities occur
disproportionately during landslide hazards in a rugged
landscape. Coping with climate-induced hazards to boost disaster
resilience among persons with disabilities is ...
Examining the use of technology in literature teaching and learning at university in Uganda
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023)
Even though the use of digital media and technologies has become a dominant ubiquitous norm in teaching and learning experiences at higher education levels in Uganda, there remains a significant dearth of scholarship on ...