admin | July 17, 2025
Our Script of the Week talks about reforestation in Uganda—and how farmers and organizations like Kijani Forestry are working to restore tree cover and combat climate change. Based on interviews in Gulu, the script explores local solutions to environmental challenges, and offers practical insights for broadcasters interested in producing programs on reforestation and its benefits.
According to Global Forest Watch, in 2010, Uganda had almost seven million hectares of tree cover, extending over 29% of its land area. In 2022, the country lost 64 thousand hectares of tree cover, which represents 33 million tons of CO2 emissions. From 2000 to 2020, Uganda lost 1.05 million hectares or 23% of its tree cover.
Today, forest covers 24% of the country’s total land area. And there is constant pressure on forest land for cultivation and settlement, as well as an increasing demand for wood fuel.
This script is based on interviews done with farmers and with people employed by Kijani Forestry based in Gulu, Uganda, who are involved in reforestation efforts.
You might choose to produce this script on your station, using voice actors to represent the speakers. If so, please make sure to tell your audience at the beginning of the program that the voices are those of actors, not the original people involved in the interviews.
If you are creating your own programs on using reforestation to address environmental and community problems, talk to farmers and others who are implementing reforestation on the ground, as well as experts who are experienced in the details of how to successfully reforest areas, and experts who understand the environmental benefits of reforestation. You may wish to ask them questions similar to the following:
- What local problems are your reforestation efforts designed to address?
- What tree species at what spacing are you planting, and what is the purpose and uses of each species?
- What environmental and community benefits have been experienced from reforestation?
- What challenges have you encountered and how have you tried to address them? Have these efforts been successful?
Estimated duration with music, intro and extro, is 25 minutes
https://scripts.farmradio.fm/radio-script/restoring-degraded-land-in-northern-uganda-by-planting-indigenous-trees/: Restoring degraded land in northern Uganda by planting indigenous trees