Researchers in Uganda recently met to tour peanut research plots after a months-long lockdown to control the spread of Covid-19.

A team working on a project to document young people’s experiences, challenges and views on the peanut value chain – the Photovoice team – recently visited the director of research at NaSARRI in Serere on July 13. Archileo Kaaya, the head of the Department of Food Technology and Nutrition at Makerere University described the project for hosts at NaSARRI, then David Kalule Okello took the  Photovoice team on a tour of the groundnut activities on the station. Okello, who is lead scientist on a project assessing the genetic diversity of peanut grown across eastern and southern Africa, is co-PI on the Photovoice project and work as a plant breeder-geneticist and Senior Research Officer with Uganda’s National Agricultural Research Organization.

From left, Stephen Lwasa, co-PI and a lecturer in the Department of Agribusiness and Natural Resource Economics at Makerere University; Daisy Kemigisha, master’s student in agricultural economics; Kaaya; Ruth Martha Mirembe, master’s student in food science and nutrition; and  Okello, Groundnuts Breeder-Geneticist and CoPI of the project orientating the Photovoice Team in the onstation research activities.

The group, along with research associate Ronald Owiny (third from left) tours experimental plots onstation at NaSARRI Serere.

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