Uganda

Climate variability and human diseases have never been more related than in these times. Environmental degradation due to erratic human activity and poor environmental conditions due to various other factors have all led to environmental stress and provide favourable conditions conducive for development of very new diseases hitherto known and some unknown to human kind; easy spread of especially infectious diseases through migrations, food shortages and all other socio-economic and structural changes favourable for the spread of HIV and increased impact of AIDS on vulnerable communities.

Energy Sources:
- Petroleum products
- Wind Energy
- Solar Energy
- Geo-thermal
- Thermal Energy
- Bio-gas
- Bagasse
- Fuel-wood
- Hydro-Electricity

ISSUES IMPACTING ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
1. There are several sources of energy in Uganda. Apart from the wood fuel provision, which is common-place, Hydro electricity seems to be most popular much as it is used by only 9% of the Ugandan population. This is so because it is clean and renewable.

Hello ,warm greetings from Go-green -Uganda'

I am sending you some updates based on current environmental situation and its impact in Uganda.

Updates
• The weather is almost unpredictable compared to past 10 years when farmers knew the weather pattern that giuded the agricultural calender at grassroot level.
• The water table has dropped and well construction in some areas is difficult even with a hydrological survey.
• The famine and drought in Uganda (west, east, north regions) has left livestock and people dead

River Nyamwamba is located in Kasese district in Western Uganda and is fed by melting glaciers from the mountains of the moon, (Rwenzori Mountain). It emerges from the mountain and flows to Lake George in the Albertine Rift. The once famous river known to support life and irrigational agriculture in Mubuku irrigation scheme has continuously been hurt by climate change and it is feared that soon its life will end. Until recently the people of Kasese area have entirely depended on the river as the main source of water for both agriculture and domestic use.

Effect of Climate change on Water resources in Uganda
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The Great Lake basins are among the most economically productive regions in East Africa and they are home for over 60 million inhabitants. Significant variations in climate could have significant impacts on water resources, agriculture, health and other social-economic factors in the region.

Greetings from the Water Governance Institute (WGI), Uganda.

WGI is national NGO in Uganda that was established last year with a view of promoting water use efficiency, sustainable management of water and associated natural resources and infrastructure in the country. This is particularly important because of the current trends in climate change and increasing water stress among the local communities. It is important that we contribute towards improving peoples' avoidance of or adaptation to climate change and its effects.

Climate change has really affected the Karamoja region in that it has led to more loss of animals and people in the region.

Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing human society in the 21st century. And poor countries like Uganda are the ones hit hardest in such circumstances. Climate change has severely affected agricultural production and food production leading to high food prices. More so coffee production has been affected by the increase in temperatures hence making it difficult to grow this important export crop.

Plants and animals respond to climatic variations. Plants, in particular, are sensitive indicators of climate. Over the long evolutionary history,plants have adapted to the limits of moisture and temperature by assuming certain physical forms, dimensions and physiological attributes that enable them to cope with climate. At one extreme, where temperatures are hot and precipitation is high tropical forests are developed; at the other extreme of cold temperatures and low precipitation, arctic tundra(Smith 1996).

Greetings to you from Mganjo Farmers Association (MAFA). We are a non governmental, non profit community based organisation in Uganda, East Africa started in 2001
We work with the community in the following areas:
- Sustainable agriculture and agribusiness
- Agricultural loans
- Environmental protection and conservatiom and
- Women farmer rights.