Climate Talk Uganda With Josephine Karungi

The accessible, acronym-free podcast about climate change in Uganda.

About the show

Climate Talk Uganda aims to explore all aspects of climate change in Uganda. Every two weeks we aim to feature a wide range of people who offer their perspectives on the challenges they - and Uganda - face as climate change continues to play out.

Episodes

  • Episode 60: Chicken and Egg Farming as an Income Source

    October 26th, 2026  |  53 mins 34 secs
    chicken breeding, climate change, climate smart jobs, csj uganda, egg value chain, evelyn simon, west nile

    How poultry farming and egg production can offer farmers new ways of earning an income.

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    Episode 59: WIIGOT - Connecting smallholder farmers with agribusinesses, services, and markets.

    October 26th, 2026  |  1 hr 11 mins
    agribusiness, brian ariho, climate change, climate smart jobs, jannet oroma.jackline labeja, resilience, smallholder farmers, uganda, wiigot

    Perspectives on the introduction of the new system to help farmers connect with agribusinesses, services, and markets.

  • Episode 58: Irrigation Technology and Adapting to Climate Change

    October 19th, 2026  |  52 mins 12 secs
    climate change, climate resilience, climate smart jobs, irrigation, smallholder farmers, uganda

    The importance of providing irrigation technology to smallholder farmers as they adapt to a changing climate.

  • Episode 57: Making Machinery Available To Farmers

    October 4th, 2026  |  40 mins 6 secs
    acholi sub-region, climate change, climate smart jobs, mechanised farming, ploughing, smallholder farmers, tractors, uganda

    Making machinery available to farming communities, in partnership with the private sector, to improve resilience to climate change.

  • Episode 56: Reporting on Climate Change with InfoNile

    September 21st, 2026  |  1 hr 6 mins
    andrew aijuka, climate change, climate smart jobs, csj, infonile, journalism, leonard namukasa, northern uganda, uganda

    The challenges and rewards of reporting on climate change, in partnership with the Climate Smart Jobs Program.

  • Episode 55: Shea butter and women's empowerment

    September 5th, 2026  |  43 mins 31 secs
    acholi, blessed organic release, climate change, empowerment, margaret laloyo, nilotica shea, shea butter, uganda, women

    Shea butter and women's empowerment, with Margaret Laloyo.

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    Episode 54: The Women's Gold of Africa - Shea Butter

    August 19th, 2026  |  1 hr 12 mins
    climate change, climate smart jobs program, eastern shea belt, nilotica shea alliance, northern uganda, shea butter, shea tree, uganda

    Shea cultivation, an economic lifeline for women in Northern Uganda.

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    Episode 53: Helping Women Achieve Better Farming Outcomes

    August 10th, 2026  |  58 mins 4 secs
    christopher atibo, land rights, pfumvudza, rhino camp refugee settlement, women and land

    A brilliant chat about pfumvudza - the sustainable agricultural practice and how it's working for women in refugee settlements.

  • Episode 52: The Uganda Climate Innovation Fund

    July 20th, 2026  |  1 hr 16 mins
    brian ndyaguma, climate change, climate smart jobs, csj, northern uganda, tobby ojok, uganda, uganda cliimate innovation fund, ugif

    Supporting entrepreneurs developing new products to help smallholder farmers

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    Episode 51: WIIGOT - A Problem Solving Tool for Smallholder Farmers

    July 6th, 2026  |  1 hr 1 min
    acholi, climate change, climate smart jobs, kiryandongo, lango, mathew rupanga, smallholder farmers, wiigot

    Designing innovative solutions to challenges faced by smallholder farmers.

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    Episode 50: Growing Cocoa - A Ugandan Farmer's Testimony

    June 22nd, 2026  |  1 hr 10 mins
    adag-anii, climate smart jobs, cocoa, csj, gulu, lira, milly akello, moses ayeno, solomon etan, uganda

    An inspiring account from Mme Milly Akello how growing cocoa is transforming her life.

  • Episode 49: Enabling Increased Cocoa Cultivation in Northern Uganda

    June 5th, 2026  |  59 mins 56 secs
    acholi, adag-anii, climate change, climate smart jobs, cocoa, gulu, lango, lira, northern uganda, okullo paul peter, uganda

    Cocoa growing may provide a living for smallholder farmers in the northern Uganda as they face the impacts of climate change.

  • Episode 48: Battery Manufacture in Kampala

    May 19th, 2026  |  23 mins 6 secs
    batteries. lithium ion batteries, climate change, electirc boda boda, ev, kampala, soleil power

    Batteries and their role in the climate transition in Uganda.

  • Episode 47: CTU Extra - My Full Conversation with Halima Nalunkuma

    April 3rd, 2026  |  46 mins 52 secs
    climate change, climate smart jobs, csj, halima nalunkuma, kiryandongo, kiryandongo agro input center, minimum tillage agriculture, mulching, pfumvudza, uganda

    Sometimes life happens while you're busy making other plans. Halima Nalunkuma wanted to be a banker and to 'wear shoes with pointy heels.' But while in Kiryandongo she saw an opportunity and grabbed it with both hands.

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    Episode 46: Pfumvudza In Action - Halima Nalunkuma in Kiryandongo

    April 3rd, 2026  |  38 mins 55 secs
    climate smart jobs, csj, halima nalunkuma, kiryandongo, kiryandongo agro input center limited, kiryandongo refugee settlement

    Halima Nalunkuma explains how she's using pfumvudza to help farmers who are refugees improve their agricultural yields and raise their incomes in the face of climate change.

  • Episode 45: Pfumvudza - Simple, Scaleable, Climate-Smart Agriculture

    March 20th, 2026  |  54 mins 43 secs
    conservation agriculture, crop rotation, foundations for farming, maqhawe mthembu, minimal tilling, mulching, pfumvudza, uganda, william tom, zimbabwe

    Explaining 'Pfumvudza': Climate smart agriculture emphasizing minimum tillage, mulching, crop rotation, and timely planting.