🌱 Great to join Sustainability Week 2026 at Sheraton hotel
CIRD is proud to partner in recycling
A pleasure discussing future collaboration with @Abdel Monem El Bashary, including a visit to CIRD to experience our innovations and taste our sweet Saso chicken raised on BSF
♻️ Today, CIRD welcomed the Sustainability Team from Sheraton Kampala Hotel to explore how #BlackSoldierFly technology can transform hotel organic waste into sustainable animal feed and organic fertilizer. Excited about partnerships for a circular economy!
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Every day, market vendors in Uganda battle mountain-high piles of organic waste that disrupt their businesses.
With the support of Korea Hope Foundation, IST in partnership with @CIRD_Insects trained 100 vendors from Gayaza in Black Soldier Fly (BSF) production innovation!
We are proud to share that our Executive Director and Co-Founder of Center for Insect Research and Development (CIRD), and Lecturer at Makerere University, has been invited as a panellist at the Insects to Feed the World Conference 2026 taking place on 9–12 June 2026 in Italy.
CIRD hosted delegates from Uganda national agricultural extension week at their insect farm. This was organised by UFAAS Uganda #ugandanationalagricultureextensionweek #bsfuganda #maaif
Center for insect Research and Development continues to mobilize farmers in Uganda
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Dear clients we wish to inform you that mr stephen ibolia is not a staff of CIRD for now two years. Please transact with him on individual basis and all liabilities address them with him. Thanks CIRD management.
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for inclusive growth and transformation. The day featured moving testimonies from women and youth vendors, who described how our collaborative interventions have transformed their market stalls into engines of social empowerment and economic opportunity.
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Obedience is closing the loop by using these nutrient-rich BSF larvae as a high-protein, low-cost alternative for poultry feed.
Instead of relying on expensive, imported feeds, she is producing her own "superfood" that makes her chickens grow faster & healthier.
#MondayMotivation
Today, we celebrate a visionary woman in Kalerwe market who isn't just talking about climate change, she's solving it.
By recycling organic market waste through BSF farming, she has transformed a sanitation challenge into a source of high-quality protein.
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#MondayMotivation
Today, we celebrate a visionary woman in Kalerwe market who isn't just talking about climate change, she's solving it.
By recycling organic market waste through BSF farming, she has transformed a sanitation challenge into a source of high-quality protein.
CIRD can now support farmers in black soldier fly value addition as we have bsf oil filtration and press, an efficient dryer. Thanks to development partners @icipe
Cird hosts Maaif senior entomologist Mr Collins Nutarinda who under climate smart came to document CIRD bsf farm experiences on black soldier fly farming in Uganda
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Opportunities in this are that we are building a green jobs where innovation pays. From waste-to-energy manufacturing, this generates income for sustainable livelihoods across the entire clean energy value chain.- Mariam Namukose added.
"At Kyuuka Ventures, we utilise plastic waste to manufacture LPG gas. By this, plastic is actively removed from the community and environment. This is a step to reduce plastic poluution" - Mariam Namukose, Co Founder at Kyuuka Innovations Hub
#WomenInClimateAction
