Frank Mugagga

WP 4: Country coordinator Uganda

Dr. Frank Muggaga is the country coordinator for Uganda in WP 4: Smallholders' Weather- and Climate-related Knowledge ∞ Action Networks. This WP focuses on climate-related challenges and innovation strategies of smallholders engaged in cash crop production, notably highland coffee cultivation in Uganda.

Frank Mugagga, is an Associate Professor of Environmental Geography at the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Climatic Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda. (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8426-0736)

His research career and professional experience spans over twenty-five years working on a range of issues including smallholder farming systems, waste management, land use, natural resources management, rural development, climate change and disaster risk management in diverse landscapes and more recently on governance, livelihoods and environmental conservation in Uganda’s oil-rich Albertine Graben. Driven by the desire to make a contribution to community development through research, Frank has over the years conducted community outreach programmes and numerous Participatory Action Oriented trainings aimed at increasing the uptake and translation of science into actionable practices among smallholder farmers and other stakeholders; community awareness and action among smallholder natural resource dependent communities. Frank’s publications focus on a range of Environmental Geography topics including; resilience building among smallholder urban farmers; development-induced displacement within the oil and gas sector, socio-economic implications of oil and gas exploration, Climate change, variability and adaptation, farming and health in cities, urban and peri urban agriculture, land use change, wetland conservation and Economic development, pedology and landslide occurrence; livelihood systems and land degradation; horticultural production systems; vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in both rural and urban areas.

Frank has supervised and continues to mentor a horde of local and international Masters, PhD students and Postdoctoral Students from across the world. He is a member to various international and regional professional networks and served as the President of the Uganda Geographical Association (2019 – 2024).