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January 13, 2026

The project that is fighting to decolonize the vision about nature in Uganda: “We need to be recognized and respected.”

After years of perseverance, indigenous communities have succeeded in getting the State to grant them authority to oversee fishing activities, but they need to go further Guardian of one of the ‘sacred natural sites’ of the Bagungu community showing the ancestral maps made by the AFRICE organization. What would happen if African indigenous communities who still dedicate their lives to […]

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August 11, 2025

Empowering Fishermen in Uganda: A Win for Indigenous Communities

The president of Uganda recent directive placing lake management in the hands of indigenous fishermen is a welcome development for indigenous fishing communities across Uganda. For years, these communities have depended on Lakes for their livelihoods, guided by generations of traditional knowledge about sustainable fishing. The President’s order recognizes their role as custodians of lakes, giving them greater authority to […]

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April 1, 2025

African commission Resolution (372) on Sacred Natural Sites and Territories

The African commission on human and Peoples’ Rights is a Pan-African body. Its key role is to ensure that both individuals (humans) and communities (peoples) have their inherent rights, as enshrined in the African Charter, acknowledged and protected across Africa. Since being founded in 1987, Commissioners have met at least twice a year to report on progress and violations of […]

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February 12, 2021

AFRICE facilitates customary law ordinance of indigenous Bagungu people in Buliisa

In the last two years AFRICE with support from Gaia Foundation has facilitated Buliisa district Local Government to develop an ordinance to recognize the customary laws and sacred natural sites and territories of the indigenous Bagungu people, living near Lake Albert. By making the customary laws to protect these SNT&T, AFRICE is implementing several resolutions made by global and regional […]

Agroecology 0 1 min read

September 23, 2020

Agroecology, the dying but age-old sustainable farming system

Agroecology means an ecological approach to agriculture that views agricultural areas as ecosystems and in concerned with the ecological impact of agricultural practices. It is a science that is innovating on traditional farming knowledge that works with nature. Agroecology also embodies a political approach, employed by small-scale food producers as a way of life, and as a means to bring […]

Agroecology 0 3 min read

June 4, 2019

Rooting rebellion in nature

Reflections on the legacy of philosopher and ‘geologian’ Thomas Berry, ten years after his death. I first met Thomas Berry at a talk in 1996 and immediately recognised him as an elder with a rare far-sightedness about our past, present and future. He pulled no punches during his talk: “The industrial process is now in its terminal phase. This is the […]

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The project that is fighting to decolonize the vision about nature in Uganda: “We need to be recognized and respected.”

Empowering Fishermen in Uganda: A Win for Indigenous Communities

African commission Resolution (372) on Sacred Natural Sites and Territories

AFRICE facilitates customary law ordinance of indigenous Bagungu people in Buliisa

Agroecology, the dying but age-old sustainable farming system

Rooting rebellion in nature

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