Climate change: Now Uganda faces a food shortage crisis

With famine still raging on, analysts warn that the government needs to work out a plan on how to let farmers know about the predicted weather if the population is to be assured of constant food supply. Saturday Monitor’s Jenny Vaughan explores the idea:

Ms Victoria Kakoko Ssebagereka has lost her entire crop. In July she planted pineapples, vanilla, maize and beans but the rains never came and neither did the harvest. Her cows and goats are emaciated.

She is one of nearly four million Ugandans who have been rattled by this year