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Uganda's sugarcane boom leaves families hungry: What needs to change

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Uganda's sugarcane boom leaves families hungry: What needs to change
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Busoga, in eastern Uganda, is a low, fertile plateau surrounded on three sides by Lake Victoria, the Nile River 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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