Topic: poverty

The Uganda National Wetlands Policy commits the Government to “the conservation of wetlands in order to sustain their ecological and socio-economic functions for the present and future well-being of

The Sezibwa wetland system is one of the four proposed sites to monitor long-term ecological and socioeconomic trends in Uganda’s wetlands. Map A shows the location and extent of this system.

The number of different products that could be potentially obtained from a wetland is closely related to the type of vegetation cover and level of wetness.

The number of different products that could be potentially obtained from a wetland is closely related to the type of vegetation cover and level of wetness.

This map highlights four different uses—beekeeping, fishing, hunting, and cultivation—which occur in less than 50 percent of Uganda’s wetlands.

Beekeeping (which occurs in 11 percent of all

This map displays wetland area per capita by subcounty, represented by the height of the red bar. Wetland area per person varies broadly among the 938 subcounties with data.

This map provides a view of Uganda’s national wetlands distribution and shows their location in every district.


*Sources: International boundaries (NIMA, 1997), district administrative bou

This map displays the 2005 poverty rates for rural subcounties.

C.K. Prahalad discusses the future of sustainable, private sector-led poverty alleviation.

The following comments were submitted to the Asian Development Bank in 2008, regarding its Safeguard Policy Statement.

In this interview, Crispino Lobo of the Watershed Organization Trust talks about how rural villages can escape poverty by managing their land sustainably.

The composition of BOP markets differs markedly across countries. Some, like those in the Ukraine, are concentrated in the upper income segments of the BOP.

In South Africa more than half the traffic on Vodacom’s mobile network in 2004 came not from its 8 million subscribers but from 4,400 entrepreneur-owned phone shops where customers rent access to ph

In Eastern Europe and Latin America all measured countries show a top-heavy BOP spending pattern, illustrated here by Russia.

The composition of BOP markets differs markedly across countries. Some, like Nigeria’s, are concentrated in the lowest income segments of the BOP.