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Climate Talk Uganda aims to explore all aspects of climate change in Uganda. Every two weeks we aim to feature a wide range of people who offer their perspectives on the challenges they - and Uganda - face as climate change continues to play out.
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Episode 55: Shea butter and women's empowerment (opens the original)
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This is a fantastic episode about women, shea, self-reliance, entrepreneurial energy and talent. It’s the story of Blessed Organic Release shea products, founded by our guest, Margaret Laloyo. As she says on the company website: ‘In 2004 I took note of an ‘international investor’ who was buying Shea butter and Shea kernels from local collectors, mostly impoverished rural women in my home area in Acholi. I noted the ‘investor’ was not offering collectors fair trade terms. I took the initiative to
Episode 54: The Women's Gold of Africa - Shea Butter (opens the original)
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Artificial meat. Shampoo. Cooking oil. Flour. All the good things that come from shea. Raymond Kakuba is the National Co-ordinator of the Nilotica Shea Alliance, and has been working alongide the Climate Smart Jobs project. In this conversation he talks to us about shea products and the economic opportunities that shea cultivation represent for women in particular. (Nilotica, he says, is a premium version of all the shea varieties.) He talks about how historically women have always been intricat
Episode 53: Helping Women Achieve Better Farming Outcomes (opens the original)
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Christopher Atibo is a business model specialist with the Climate Smart Jobs project. But he's a farmer to his bones. As his mother used to say, 'Let's go to work - if you don't work, you don't eat.' In this inspiring episode he tells us how the practice of pfumvudza is helping transfrom the fortunes of women in refugee settlements - and communities in general - in Northen Uganda. We hear how new ways of farming enable women to gain greater economic freedom and greater opportunities to support t
Episode 52: The Uganda Climate Innovation Fund (opens the original)
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Joining us in this episode are two of the key people who have been implementing the Uganda Climate Innovation Fund, Brian Ndyaguma and Tobby Ojok. The Climate Smart Jobs project developed the Uganda Climate Innovation Fund to support entrepreneurs coming up with sustainable, economically viable ways of helping local people become more resilient to the challenges of climate change in Northern Uganda, including prolonged drought, unpredictable rains, and declining soil productivity. Brian Ndyaguma
Episode 51: WIIGOT - A Problem Solving Tool for Smallholder Farmers (opens the original)
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Farmers in northern Uganda face many obstacles to success in the face of climate change. Shifting climatic patterns make planning extremely difficult, and access to markets and services is often inconsistent and beset with problems. The Climate Smart Jobs Project - the organisation behind this podcast - exists to design innovative ways of tackling these difficulties. Mathew Rupanga is the Team Leader of the Climate Smart Jobs Project, and he joins me in this episode to talk through the many ways
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