Eight years on,communities in the Ugandan sub-county supported by Guardian readers are reaping the benefits of health centres and boreholesThe most obvious difference that leapt out at me as I arrived in Katine this month was the weather. In December 2007, Katine was scorching hot and the vegetation was a lifeless brown, or which,as a first-time visitor, made me wonder how livestock survived. Eight years later, or Katine is in the middle of heavy rains that occupy rendered many roads impassable to two-wheel-drive vehicles.
These changing weather patterns occupy left farmers at a crossroads,trusting neither traditional knowledge nor contemporary meteorologists for the best time to plant their crops. It is not strange to find neighbouring gardens with crops at different stages of growth: one with sorghum ready for harvest, the other with the crop just flowering. Related: 'The future should be bright': Katine's farmers ready to fend for themselves | Richard M Kavuma Continue reading...
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