| | Gender and Soil Fertility Management in Mbale District, Southeastern Uganda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | Mbale District was selected for this study as a high potential region which is one of the three most densely populated rural districts in Uganda, the others being Kabale and Kisoro which neighbor each other in the extreme southwest of the country (Figure 3). |
 | | At the time of the last national census in 1991, Mbale had a population of about 711,000, over 91% of which is rural, and a density of about 284 per sq km [8]. |
 | | Mbale district is also a site of the USAID-supported Investment In Developing Export Agriculture Project (IDEA) to help develop export-oriented agriculture, including major food crops such as maize and beans, as well as a wide range of food and nonfood income crops. |
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