Adam Bemma

  • Uganda: Urban residents turn to vegetables and chickens to improve their lives

    Ruth Nalunkuma sits on her front doorstep and gazes at her kitchen garden. The 47-year-old mother of five grows fruit and vegetables in a garden outside her tiny home in Kigoowa, a suburb eight kilometres northeast of central Kampala. Mrs. Nalunkuma says, “I grow spinach, pumpkin, passion fruit, onions, spinach and dodo [amaranth] in my…

    Adam Bemma

  • ‘Fahari Yangu’: The Pride of Agricultural Radio in Tanzania

    ARUSHA, Tanzania – A large, yellow, wind-up, solar radio crackles as farmer Esther Mbwana tunes it into her favourite radio station. “I love the Fahari Yangu farmer program. I listen every week,” she says as she spins the dial and stops on 105.7 FM, Arusha’s Radio 5. Mbwana is a 48-year-old mother of three from Poli village, located…

    Adam Bemma
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