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Current industrial agriculture aims to increase crop yields while reducing production costs but the impacts of those goals can be detrimental to the environment, biodiversity, health and sustainability. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are a product of industrial agriculture. Genetic modification is a gene-altering technology used to introduce new characteristics to a plant, which may improve its resilience to harsh environments, pests and pathogens. Genetic modification sounds like a promising option on the surface but it raises ethical, political, economic, environmental and social concerns that steer many people away from growing GM crops. GM seeds are most often designed to be resistant to Roundup, the brand name of a chemical herbicide produced by Monsanto. ‘Roundup Ready’ crops like soybean, maize, beans and potatoes have been altered genetically so they do not die after being sprayed with Roundup. This allows farmers to spray Roundup on fields to kill weeds bu...

What is causing hunger in Uganda? And which part of Uganda is affected most?     President Museveni has on several occasions urged Ugandans and political leaders to sensitize the people against land fragmentation saying the practice, rampant among the predominantly agriculture dependent communities threatens food security and is a source of poverty. The biggest challenge facing Ugandan agriculture today is land fragmentation associated with the traditional inheritance practices and polygamy. Land fragmentation is more like a curse that can bind people into poverty. Land is a long-term capital asset but most people in Uganda don't understand this fact. When they break up land into smaller pieces, they sell those small plots. But there is nothing more dangerous than abruptly earning huge sums of money but lack financial literacy skills. Those who sell inherited land will end up being poor again despite earning millions. it's because in most cases they lack literacy ...