Pereira, H.C.2015-06-292015-06-291962East African Agricultural And Forestry Journal, XXVII (Special Issue), p. 42-460012-8325http://localhost:8080/dspace/handle/0/989Uganda is a well-watered territory in comparison with its East African neighbours, but in the extensive pastoral areas to the north of the Nile water shortage is often acute. Here the effects of a rather severe climate are exaggerated by overgrazing and misuse of land. Over many thousands of square miles, a rainfall of 20 to 30 inches per year which should be adequate for prosperous ranching enterprises, leaves a countryside parched and bare of keep, with men and cattle depending precariously on declining water-holes in the dry sandy torrent-courses.enhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Journal ContributionGrazingSemiarid zonesRanchingLand use