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Economic performance and scalability of smallscale aquaculture systems: a comparative analysis of pond, cage, and aquaponics systems in the Lake Victoria basin, Uganda
(Springer Nature Link, 2025-11-10) Byabasaija, Syliver; Limuwa, Moses; Semyalo, Ronald
This study evaluates the economic performance, scalability, and resource efficiency of three small-scale aquaculture systems ponds, cages, and aquaponics in the Lake Victoria basin, Uganda. Data were collected from 169 respondents across Buikwe, Mpigi, and Wakiso districts through structured interviews, production records, and field observations. Financial performance was assessed over 5 years using net present value (NPV) and benefit–cost ratio (BCR) as key indicators. Results show that cage culture is the most economically viable and scalable system, with a BCR of 1.10 and a cumulative NPV of USD 1327.10, driven by efficient water use and high turnover. Pond systems were economically feasible, with a BCR of 1.03 and an NPV of USD 266.74, but they had limited scalability due to land requirements and lower long-term returns. Aquaponics systems were economically unsustainable, showing a BCR of 0.66 and a negative NPV of USD 3150.05, mainly because of high input costs and technical complexity. The study highlights the need for targeted interventions such as affordable input access, infrastructure development, and financial support to improve less profitable systems. Policy support, technological innovation, and capacity-building initiatives are recommended to boost productivity, increase adoption, and promote sustainable aquaculture development.
Decolonisation pathways: coloniality and Afican responses to COVID-19, Vol. II
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2024) Ngendo-Tshimba, David; Foreword by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
The prolonged COVID-19 lockdown across many countries in Africa, and the world at large, did take a huge toll on the resilience of societies, markets and governments. This second volume of Decolonisation Pathways makes it clear and bold that pandemics are too serious a matter to be left to epidemiologists and pathologists alone. Contributors to this volume start with an acknowledgement that although a pandemic is global, the COVID-19 pandemic was differentially experienced and responded to in various countries and locales in Africa. Many governments across the African continent kept claiming, and perhaps rightly so, that they were responding to the science of the day. The scientific voice echoed in those pandemic years, however, was not democratic enough in its scope, let alone stabilising.
Without doubt, not all African states turned to the West (Europe and North America) or to the East (China and Russia) for reference and rescue in ‘flattening the COVID-19 transmission curve’. But even counterhegemonic efforts observed in some African polities in the wake of the pandemic were still wrapped in anti-colonial, but not necessarily decolonial idioms and praxes. In the main, African responses to COVID-19 further exposed the enduring effects of European colonial rule insofar as crisis management in formerly colonised spaces is concerned. The force with which the dictates of COVID-19 science—whether from the West, East or homegrown—were implemented was indeed reminiscent of the European colonial experiment for many citizens and residents in Africa. The authors here refreshingly return the debate to traces of coloniality—and attempts at decoloniality, if any—in African responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read together, the chapters of this volume point to where it hurts most: they remind their readers that a great many responses to COVID-19 in Africa exacerbated the vulnerability of formerly colonised people, who already had historical layers of underlying conditions.
The life and times of the Uganda Martyrs: the pioneer African Martyrs from South of the Sahara
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2025) Ssemitego, John Baptist; Foreword By The Most Rev. Paul Ssemogerere, Archibishop of Kampala Archidocese
The Catholic Faith was brought to Buganda when the people in the region were still glued on tribal beliefs and any shift from the traditional worship was an abomination, the king (Kabaka) was an absolute ruler and a law unto himself and all his subjects had to give unquestionable royalty irrespective of what would be his demand. When the Catholic missionaries arrived, they found the Moslems and Anglicans already in the field and the local community had already been introduced to the worship of a Christian God and at this point several of the king's servants had been enrolled in all the two faiths, one after another. Those who had enrolled in Islam, which came first with the Arabs merchants, considered it superior to their ancestral pagan beliefs. When the Anglican missionaries arrived, they quickly embraced their teaching given the fact that the Arabs had soiled their mission with trading the locals as slaves.
Pere Lourdel quoted Paul Nalubandwa, the first Catholic to be baptized in 1880, as having told him that in the Islamic faith they had taught them that when you sin you wash and get clean, and later the Anglicans taught them that Jesus died for our sins, our task is to believe in him as our saviour and we are saved. Pere Lourdel later collaborated this narrative with that of Mathias Mulumba ...
Accounting Information Systems usage and financial performance of the hospitality sector in Uganda:
(Social Science and Human Research Bulletin, 2025-09-29) Kasenge, Martin; Namuli, Josephine; Arinaitwe, Evalyne
This study examines how Accounting Information Systems (AISs) Usage accounts for financial performance of the hospitality sector in Uganda and adopted a systematic review method of the hotel sector with focus on Fort Portal City. To assess financial performance of hotels in Fort Portal City, literature and published reports about financial performance of the sector were reviewed for a period of 7 years from 2017 – 20224. This period provided a trend in performance of the sector in the city. The study included studies focusing on the overall financial performance of the hotels sector on one hand as well as those that have had detailed focus on either adoption or use of accounting information systems to manage business information with intent of informing decisions. Data were sourced from Google Scholar and Science Direct databases for the period under review. The collected data were synthesized and findings summarized in a thematic manner to aid discussions. Results indicate that accounting information systems usage positively and significantly predict financial performance of Hotels through aiding timely capturing and processing of information which informs decisions that are important to enhance profitability, liquidity and return on assets. Further still, AISs usage results into: higher transparency, better risk management, and stronger financial controls translating into better investment decisions and portfolio allocations. Based on the findings, researchers conclude that AISs usage positively and significantly predict financial performance of firms. The study thus recommends that firms/ hotels should consider investing in more advanced and efficient systems to improve their financial performance.
Decomposing sand mining complexities to chart ocean sustainability narratives and pathways in the coastal zones of Africa
(Elsevier, 2025-03-08) Matovu, Baker; Bleischwitz, Raimund; Lukambagire, Isaac; Etta, Linda A.; Lutalo, Bernard
Coastal zones/states of Africa are some of the leading sand-mining and exporting spots globally, a conduit for lucrative socioeconomic transformation. Unfortunately, in Africa, as with most emerging economies, sand mining benefits have not yielded comprehensive socioecological benefits. Rather, sand mining and trade have spiraled into negative externalities that cataclysmically scupper socioecological systems and ocean sustainability targets. The lack of coherent sand mining governance mechanisms and increasing natural resource contestations, proliferated by bumper global sand demand, have further created dire sustainability indicators/ramifications. The externalities have explosive negative effects on coastal and marine ecosystems that sustain livelihoods. These have spilled into unsustainable socioecological outcomes,cremating the avenues for realizing Agenda 2063 of Africa’s Ocean Decade and sustainable actions, necessitating urgent redress. This study digs deeper into the literature on sand mining in Africa to kickstart new epochs for sustainable sand mining in Africa that are replicable. A systematic literature review of 2514 peer-reviewed articles and 15 grey literature, including policy documents and reports on sand mining, were explored and analyzed using a bibliometric analysis technique. A bibliometric analysis entailed the uncovering of three key issues (i) sand mining research and policy trends/ directions in Africa, including their complexity in tandem with the sustainability trilogy (ii) ramifications of the current sand mining landscape to/on ocean sustainability pillars (social, economic, institutional, scientific &environmental) and (iii) thematic mapping/analysis to highlight the current governance mechanisms (including sustainability issues/gaps therein). Findings revealed that Africa’s coastal states are some of the leading sand exporters but lose most of their revenue by reimporting sand from middle or high-income states. Research on sand mining has receded. If it exists, it is led by a few countries and western (developed/richer) institutions/scholars. Increasing sand mining is associated with increase in socioecological vulnerabilities. Africa’s coastal regions experiencing unsustainable sand mining are losing critical natural and social livelihood capitals. Governance mechanisms are unsustainable. Few powerful actors (including an emerging network of African oligarchs and foreign companies/individuals), operate or manage the sand-mining value chains. There is limited understanding of the environmental, social, and governance nexus and its relationship to local and global development targets. To chart/regurgitate sustainable narratives for sustainable sand mining, a new pathway called the SSMAP (Sustainable Sand Mining Action Pathway) that has five key interrelated steps has been developed. Localizing the SSMAP and incorporating emerging co-governance pathways in micro-settings could help identify leverage points for collaborative and voluntary engagements/governance on sand mining. Scaling up the SSMAP (micro to macro levels) could help build evidence-based inventories and transformative options to co-design coherent transnational governance mechanisms. Such mechanisms could bolster the monitoring of sand mining, legitimize sustainable sand mining operations and value chains, and lay the foundations for better coastal socioecological livelihood and development indicators.