The student studied in Norway during the first part of the year to take courses in environmental development studies and rural development in Africa. In the summer, they traveled before studying at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda for two months where they took project management and research methods courses. While there, they lived with local professors and emphasized field learning over lectures through visits to farms, slums, and villages as well as interviews with local people.

1. The Norwegian University of Life Sciences Leanne VanderKwaak 4th Year student in Global Resource Systems, specialising in Rural Development in Africa

6. Where is Uganda? Uganda

7. Where did we live?

32. Field Studies

34. Seeing, Touching, Smelling Poverty in Slums

47. Visits to local farms

58. Interviews with people in small villages doing development projects

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