Josephine Karungi

Episode 20: Talking Food Prices with Market Traders

March 24th, 2025  |  21 mins 16 secs

climate, climate change, irish potatoes, kampala, malerwe market, mangoes, matoke

Three market traders in Kampala chat with WIlliam Ssekiranda about the ups and downs of commodity prices from a small trader's perspective.

Episode 19: Two Perspectives on Rising Coffee Prices and Climate Change.

March 5th, 2025  |  42 mins 45 secs

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One Tribe cafe owner (and expert cupper) Gail Mawocha joins grower and exporter Robert Byaruhanga to compare perspectives on coffee prices, climate change and what the future may hold.

Episode 18: Two Innovations: Retaining Soil Moisture and Improving Soil Productivity

February 21st, 2025  |  23 mins 8 secs

afrotym, climate change, namutebi muniirah, nicholas najuna, small holder farmers, uganda climate innovation fund, umuntu agrobiotics

Two innovative thinkers, Nicholas Najuna and Namutebi Muniirah, join Josephine Karungi to explain how they're developing new ways to retain soil moisture and increase its productivity in the face of climate change.

Episode 17: Innovations to Prolong the Shelf-Life of Fruit and Vegetables

February 7th, 2025  |  18 mins 39 secs

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Two traders from Kasubi Market in Kampala talk to WIlliam Ssekiranda about how quickly produce begins to rot, and what an economic challenge that presents. Then we hear from two Ugandan innovators who are developing ways of extending the shelf-life of fresh produce.

Episode 16: Food Waste and Climate Change

January 24th, 2025  |  23 mins 57 secs

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If food waste was a country it'd be No.3 in the League Table of Climate Change Villains, behind USA and China. How come? And what can be done?

Episode 15: Electric boda-bodas

January 10th, 2025  |  31 mins 26 secs

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There's an estimated 350,000 boda-bodas in Kampala. What if they were electric?

Episode 14: Cycling could be key to unlocking Kampala's future in a climate-changed world

December 19th, 2024  |  25 mins 30 secs

climate change, cycling, infrastructure, kampala, owiny hakim, road safety, uganda, william ssekiranda

Improving Kampala (and Uganda's) cycling infrastructure - making it safer and easier to use - could be one of the keys to keeping the city livable into the future. Activist, community educator and avid cyclist Owiny Hakim explains.

Episode 13: Planning, development and managing water

December 13th, 2024  |  16 mins 24 secs

climate change, floods, infrastructure, julius musiimenta, kampala, uganda, water management

'The bridge that was designed for 1960 can not be the same bridge for today.' Future oriented thinking is the key to handling water in a climate-changing future. Sanitation engineer Julius Musiimenta explains.

Climate Talk Extra - Dealing with waste water

December 13th, 2024  |  11 mins 53 secs

design, flood, infrastructure, jilius musiimenta, mitigation, uganda, urban planning, water resource management

Dealing with waste water - it's not everyone's idea of fun, but it is an area of increasing opportunity. From storing water for use in irrigation to treating it for re-use in the household. Featuring water engineer Julius Musiimenta.

Climate Talk Extra - Using Uganda's rainfall history to model future rain events

December 3rd, 2024  |  10 mins 55 secs

Dr Max Kigobe of Makerere University on researching historical rainfall patterns, modeling future rainfall events, and why he first got interested in understanding Uganda's climate.

Episode 12: Floods and infrastructure

December 2nd, 2024  |  17 mins 48 secs

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In the wake of the serious floods over the past few weeks, we talk with Dr Max Kigobe of Makerere University about why they're happening and how Uganda can best prepare for future rainfall-related climate events.

Episode 11: What does resilience to climate change actually mean?

November 14th, 2024  |  38 mins 36 secs

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Climate change resilience. It's easy to talk about, but what does it mean - globally and in Uganda? Featuring Professor Revocatus Twinomuhangi of Makerere University and Nick Pyatt of the private sector consultancy firm Climate Sense.

Episode 10: Listeners' reflections on climate change

November 1st, 2024  |  23 mins 53 secs

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Garbage, floods and firewood. Humans, storks and wetlands. We range far and wide as we chat with three of our listeners about some of the ideas and issues raised in the first nine episodes of the podcast.

Episode 9: The water cycle and coping with disruption

October 18th, 2024  |  20 mins 53 secs

climate change, irrigation, josephine karungi, uganda, water cycle

Too much water. Too Little water. Water in all the wrong places. Water at all the wrong times. And what to do about it.

Episode 8: Agroforestry and climate change

September 26th, 2024  |  20 mins 34 secs

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In this episode we hear from two locations: Bukerekere Village in Central Uganda and Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in the Arua District in the north west, about how agroforestry works, and why it's one way communities can practice sustainable and profitable agriculture in a changing climate.

Episode 7: Climate change impacts on women

September 20th, 2024  |  20 mins 27 secs

carol kayanja, gender and land, land tenure, ucobac, uganda community based association for women and children welfare

Between 75% and 80% of women provide farm labor in Uganda, yet only around 25% of women own land in their own right. Josephine Karungi examines how this impacts the ability of women to adapt to climate change, and the knock on effects on family wellbeing.