Recently, Agence Française de Développement (the French Development Agency/AFD) was celebrating 20 years of working with Ugandans towards Growth and Development-related projects. One of the main projects they have been looking at is protecting and enhancing natural resources.The Ugandan government identified strong relations between poverty and natural resources and with the growing population, poverty, urbanization, non-sustainable agriculture as well as climate change, the natural resources are experiencing a strong pressure.
AFD mobilizes various financial instruments to support the environment and bio diversity through setting up regulatory frameworks and sustainable management of continental aquatic ecosystems.
Along with 2 other Incredible photographers, Esther Mbabazi and Kibuuka Mukisa Oscar, we were commissioned to each visually represent the work done in particular three different parts of Uganda and my assignment was in Jinja, with a group of scientists who are doing continuous water quality measurements in the Napoleon Gulf, Murchison Bay.
Over the past decades, there has been an increasing nutrient enrichment and greening in northern Lake Victoria. This is associated with the unethical discharge of domestic and industrial wastes and consequently increased nutrient loads that enhance proliferation of harmful cyanobacterial blooms.
Experiments in the Napoleon Gulf have tested the feasibility of various approaches on the lake with the operational facilities of NaFIRRI.
Additionally, the researchers have managed to evaluate the evolution of biomass and phytoplankton with the continuous growth of human populations on the shores of Lake Victoria.
There is an exhibition of 4 completely different images from these ones that have been erected on the street of Kyaggwe road, on the Exterior walls of the French Embassy. Take a moment and look at them.
