Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Uganda Monitor
Published on 2024-09-28 07:30:00
Uganda’s population continues to grow and so does the demand for fuelwood and wood products.
Agriculture is also expanding into natural woodlands and forests. The resulting deforestation worsens climate change and its impacts.
Further, forest plantations are failing to keep pace with the demand for wood and wood products. One promising option to change this challenge is to interest the farming community to grow bamboo which can be harvested over a long period of time.
Bamboo is not new to Uganda and although most of the bamboo resource is in protected areas, adjacent communities…
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