Connecting poverty & ecosystem services : Focus on Uganda

Division of Policy Development and Law (DPDL) The objective of DPDL, a division within UNEP, is to enable members of the international community to develop integrated and coherent policy responses to environmental problems and to strengthen environmental law as well as to improve com- pliance with and enforcement of legal instruments. [...] The long-term future of this human well-being due to the continuing degradation of the country’s constituent is highly dependent on the protection of wetlands which provide indispensable ecosystem and wetlands, which provide cost effective water filtration regulating services including maintenance of the and storage services. [...] It is bordered by the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to the west, natural environment Sudan to the north, Kenya to the east, Tanzania in the Uganda consists mostly of tropical moist deciduous south and Rwanda in the southwest. [...] Focus on Uganda 7 Connecting poverty and ecosystem services: A series of seven country scoping studies east along the shores of Lake Victoria, in the high- Arable land lands of Mount Elgon, in the southwest Ruwenzori Mountains, in the west in Masindi district and in the Uganda has 7.2 million ha of arable land and land under north in Gulu district (FAO Land and Water permanent crops or approximate [...] The Northern Region has the constraints least at 22 per cent of the population with the Central Between 1991 and 2000, Uganda realized six per cent Region having the most at 27 per cent, followed by average annual growth in GDP, exceeding population the Western Region at 26 per cent and the Eastern growth and resulting in a three per cent increase in Region at 25 per cent (Uganda Bureau of Statist