According to the national policy, overall forest and agroforestry cover in Rwanda is to increase up to 30% land cover by 2020. On the other hand, demographic data reveal that Rwanda's urban areas are among the fastest-growing on the continent. Unfortunately, there is only little information of the...

This note concerns recruitment patterns of Euphorbia candelabrum, a tall (up to 10 m) single stemmed succulent, which is indigenous but invasives in parts of Queen Elizabeth Park (QEP), in Uganda. E. candelabrum is conspicuously dotted about in many parts of the QEP landscape, not just near the...

Use of synthetic pesticides in developing countries is not only limited by their being expensive but also the small (uneconomic) fields whose limited production costs cannot offset costs of agricultural implements like agro-chemicals. Subsistence farmers, therefore, have no choice but to use local...