{
  "id": 14561029,
  "title": "Uganda's sugarcane boom leaves families hungry: What needs to change",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/ugandas-sugarcane-boom-leaves-families-hungry-what-needs-to-change",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-14T23:20:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-uganda-sugarcane-boom-families-hungry.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Busoga, in eastern Uganda, is a low, fertile plateau surrounded on three sides by Lake Victoria, the Nile River and Lake Kyoga. Most of its 4.3 million people farm small, rain-fed plots. Yet hunger is common: in the 2024 census, about a third of Busoga households reported going whole days without food.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}