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Immaculate Amony

Harriet Ajwangs well watered garden Photo by Immaculate Amony scaled
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Fast Maturing Crops, Plastic Irrigation: Lira Women’s Answer to Climate Change

A group of women in Lira district have embraced planting quick-maturing crops like eggplant, tomatoes, carrots, and cabbages all year round as an intervention to mitigate the effects of prolonged dry seasons.  During the dry season, the women collect water from ponds, boreholes or unprotected wells to irrigate their gardens using plastic bottles of mineral […]
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