Uganda: Uganda's Sugarcane Boom Leaves Families Hungry - What Needs to Change

AllAfrica Global Media · 2026-10-15T04:53:21.000Z · World

[The Conversation Africa] Busoga, in eastern Uganda, is a low, fertile plateau surrounded on three sides by Lake Victoria, the River Nile and Lake Kyoga. Most of its 4.3 million people farm small, rain-fed plots. Yet hunger is common: in the 2024 census, about a third of Busoga households reported going whole days without food.

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