{"id":596,"date":"2023-04-04T07:28:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T14:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/?post_type=our_fellows&#038;p=596"},"modified":"2025-07-14T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:25:08","slug":"emma-naluyima","status":"publish","type":"our_fellows","link":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/our_fellows\/emma-naluyima\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Naluyima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">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\u2019s degree in Health Services Research in Veterinary Medicine from Makerere University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","focus_area":[92],"expertise":[134,138],"class_list":["post-596","our_fellows","type-our_fellows","status-publish","hentry","focus_area-food-security","expertise-agribusiness","expertise-animal-welfare"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_fellows\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/our_fellows"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/our_fellows"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"focus_area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/focus_area?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspenglobalinnovators.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/expertise?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}