• Water Accessibility and Health of Refugee Communities in Rhino Refugee Settlement in Arua District- Uganda 

  Gubek, Dorina (Makerere University, 2020-11-10)

  Water supplies must be both safe and acceptable to users, although quantity may take precedent over quality in terms of delivering a wide range of health benefits, including those that are mostly linked to hygiene. This ...

• Nutri-medicinal indigenous plants and management of Immuno-compromised opportunistic ailments: A case study of Wakiso District, Uganda 

  Nakibuuka, Mary Magdalein (Makerere University, 2021-03-29)

  As a result of the AIDS epidemic, many people are immunocompromised and opportunistic infections are common. Nutri-medicinal plants are commonly used in management of HIV–related ailments, and also to counteract the side ...

• An Assessment of the Environmental Performance of Selected Firms in the Kampala Industrial and Business Park (KIBP), Uganda 

  Nakibuuka, Susan (Makerere University, 2021-03-31)

  The study sought assess the environmental management systems adopted by select firms within the KIBP, Namanve. By using the Qualitative Research Design, a cross-sectional survey was used to map and characterize the adoption ...

• Farmers’ Preferences and Willingness-to-pay for improved cassava varieties in Uganda: The case of Arua, Lira, Nakasongola and Soroti districts 

  Angudubo, Stephen (Makerere University, 2021)

  This study examined farmers’ preferences and willingness-to-pay for improved cassava varieties. Choice experiments provided data used in the economic analysis of preferences and willingness-to-pay. The study elicited ...

• Contribution of morphological traits for prediction of sweet potato weevil resistance in Uganda 

  Osaru, Florence (Makerere University, 2020)

  Sweetpotato is an important source of nutritional and bioactive substances especially to resource poor households in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, several pests affect it with the sweetpotato weevils (SPW) being the ...

• Yield stability, correlation and homogeneity of advanced cowpea lines in Uganda 

  Abiriga, Francis (Makerere University, 2021-03)

  Genetic stability coefficients, selection indices and homogeneity are important parameters that guide breeders in deciding what variety to release. The objectives of this study were to determine the yield stability, ...

• Analysis of Gender differences in Smallholder Farmers’ Use of Information Sources to cope with Drought in Masindi District, Uganda 

  Mayindi, Zirintusa Andrew (Makerere University, 2021)

  While socio-economic and institutional determinants of use of information sources have been widely studied in various contexts, the gender dimension of information use, and in relation to coping with the adverse effects ...

• Strategies for improving screening and management of Black Sigatoka disease of banana 

  Kumakech, Alfred (Makerere University, 2021-02-04)

  Control methods for Black Sigatoka including cultural, chemical and resistance are ineffective, and screening procedures have limitations. Thus, there is need for alternative control methods and screening procedure. The ...

• Effective isolation distance for prevention of cassava virus spread in farmer-preferred cultivars in Uganda 

  Kasule, Faizo (Makerere University, 2021)

  The two viral diseases, cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) and cassava mosaic disease (CMD), are a major constraint to cassava production in Uganda. The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) ...

• Inheritance of sweetpotato resistance to sweetpotato weevils (C. brunneus and C. puncticollis) 

  Odama, Roy (Makerere University, 2021-03-12)

  Sweetpotato weevils can cause up to 100% yield losses especially in hot and dry weather conditions. Use of resistant cultivars is the most sustainable strategy to control sweetpotato weevils. The requisite knowledge on ...

• Gender, Vulnerability and Climate Change Adaptation Choices in Eastern Uganda 

  Balikoowa, Kenneth (Makerere University, 2021)

  The narrative linking climate change vulnerability and adaptation behaviour to gender has gained traction within climate change literature in recent years. The narrative is based on the proven vulnerability –poverty nexus ...

• Impact of adoption lag of soil and water conservation practices on crop productivity in Sio-Malaba Malakisi basin of Kenya-Uganda border 

  Nyirahabimana, Hyacinthe (Makerere University, 2021-02-15)

  The increasing need to feed the highly growing population has significantly led to land degradation, resulting in a substantial reduction of soil and crop productivity. If expected future food demand is to be met, global ...

• Food security inequality between female and male headed households : evidence from Northern and South Western Uganda 

  Ndagire, Lilian (Makerere University, 2021-01)

  Reducing gender inequalities is morally, ethically, and economically viewed as one of the principal strategies for reducing food insecurity and poverty in the developing world. Resource access in favour of men has bred a ...

• Inheritance of internal tuber processing attributes among selected potato (Solanum Tuberosum L.) genotypes 

  Muhumuza, Edgar (Makerere University, 2020-08)

  The new trends in the potato industry especially in processing require analysis of yield, tuber attributes and disease resistance in the development of new potato varieties. This study evaluated selected potato genotypes ...

• Inheritance of Bruchid resistance in selected common bean varieties in Uganda 

  Ochaya, Francis Felix (Makerere University, 2018)

  Common bean is an important food crop in Ugandan and the world at large, but its production is hindered by the major storage pests mainly the bruchids; Z. subfasciatus and Acanthoscelides obtectus. Control of this pest has ...

• Evaluation of potato (Solanum tuberosum, L.) genotypes for adaptability in Mt Elgon Region 

  Kwaka, Lorna Winnie (Makerere University, 2020-10)

  Potato (Solanum tuberosam L.) is among the most important crops in the world. Potato in Uganda is mainly produced in the highland areas of Kabale and Kisoro in southwestern and Bugisu and Sebei areas on the slopes of Mt ...

• Influence of selected soil properties on tree species diversity and above-ground biomass in Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda 

  Aleeje, Alfred (Makerere University, 2021-03-22)

  Tree species diversity and biomass are important indicators of the forest carbon storage capacity. The role of soil characteristics in shaping these two, however, has not been adequately studied in tropical forests of ...

• Effect of cultivar and thermotherapy combined with meristem-tip culture on eliminating prevalent viruses infecting potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) in Uganda 

  Waswa, Moses (Makerere University, 2015-07)

  Virus infections in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) have negative effect on yield through accelerating seed tuber degeneration. Several methods have been proposed for virus elimination, however in-vitro thermotherapy combined ...

• Impacts of sand mining on species diversity of vascular plants in Lwera wetland, central Uganda 

  Kawala, Sarah (Makerere University, 2021-02)

  Wetlands provide enormous socio-economic and environmental benefits but they are threatened by various degradation activities of which sand mining is one of the most rampant and devastating in Uganda. This study was conducted ...

• Fertilizer micro dosing and timing of weeding for improved agronomic efficiency in finger millet production in eastern Uganda 

  Ekwangu, Joseph (Makerere University, 2021-02-08)

  Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) is a major food crop mostly for the semi-arid tropics of Sub-Saharan Africa. In Uganda, finger millet is rated third after maize and sorghum in order of production, among smallholder ...

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