Emma Naluyima, born around 1980 in Entebbe, Uganda, is a veterinarian, urban farmer, entrepreneur, elementary school educator, and farming instructor. She operates a highly productive one-acre farm in Bwerenga, Wakiso District, earning an estimated $100,000 USD annually. Raised by a pilot father and a banker mother, Naluyima attended Stella Maris Primary School in Nkokonjeru and later Maryhill High School in Mbarara. She earned her Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and a Master’s degree in Health Services Research in Veterinary Medicine from Makerere University.
After graduating in 2004, she worked at the National Animal Genetic Resources Centre and Databank in Entebbe. In 2006, she left her government job to start a piggery on a small family plot with a modest loan of USh2 million (about $1,000 USD), which eventually funded her master’s degree. In 2010, she married Ssalongo Washington Mugerwa, a schoolteacher, and together they purchased 6.5 acres of land, relocating and expanding her piggery. Naluyima has since become a national example of sustainable and integrated farming in Uganda.
