This issue focuses on the role of agriculture in lifting Uganda’s rural poor out of poverty and calls on government not to ignore that sector in preference for oil and gas. A section of the newsletter is dedicated to the mining sector in Uganda, which for long has been ignored by the majority of Ugandans despite its massive potential. Uganda is endowed with at least 27 minerals, all with immense economic potential. Just like oil and gas, we see a big opportunity for Uganda to build its economy and transform its rural poor using these resources, but their exploitation has to be transparent and sustainable. We have also taken the oil discourse out of Kampala and the Albertine Region, to a few of the non-oil-producing districts in Western and Central Uganda. The results are quite surprising.