Research links Busoga hunger to sugar contracts held mainly by men

What the report says

Busoga, in eastern Uganda, is a low, fertile plateau surrounded on three sides by Lake Victoria, the River Nile and Lake Kyoga. Most of its 4.3mn people farm small, rain-fed plots. Yet hunger is common: in the 2024 census, about a third of Busoga households reported going whole days without food. Sugarcane has been grown commercially here since the 1920s, when on