Kampala — DRESSED in rubber sandals, torn clothes with a hoe suspended over one shoulder and a machete in one hand, Mark Lochoro marches to his farm, 12km east of Moroto district.
The frail looking 45-year-old Lochoro is one of the Karimojong pastoralists who have given up their nomadic way of life for crop farming. There are over 1,500 farmer groups, comprising 500,000 people out of the 1.13million people in Karamoja.
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