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Posted by nhanda-williams  |  Jan 5, 2011 | 0 Comments
Agriculture • Business Development • Education • Ruhiira, Uganda

Empowering women: the force behind Ruhiira’s best restaurant

Lunch time in Ruhiira? Look no further. 'Fang Fang' is the place to go for yummy matooke (bananas) and beans. The woman behind this thriving micro-business is Tumushabe Boneconcila, whose entrepreneurial spirit is doing much to both improve the quality of her own life and radically shake up ideas of traditional gender roles in the community. Before the arrival of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP) in 2006, Boneconcila had begun building what would become Fang Fang and . . . [more]

Posted by Joelle Bassoul Mojon  |  May 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
Agriculture • Business Development • Ruhiira, Uganda

Ruhiira Goes Bananas for the Fruit

In the cold morning air heavy with mist, green waves rise gently from deep valleys up to Ruhiira’s hilltops then flow downwards again, engulfing small villages. The soft waves of banana leaves are much more than just idyllic scenery for the inhabitants. They are their livelihood, and on the green fruit depends much of their well-being. Ruhiira, a cluster of eight villages located in a lush area of Southwestern Uganda, is renowned for its bananas, matoke as they are called here. For the 50,000 villagers, this has been their staple food for generations. But years of intensive agriculture eroded the soil . . . [more]

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