Editing Kampala (section)

== Economy ==

[[File:Lake Victoria Fishermen in Uganda.png|thumb|left|Traditional Fishermen on Lake Victoria outside Kampala]]
[[File:The Church House, Kampala Road, Kampala, Uganda.jpg|thumb|The Church House, downtown Kampala]]
Efforts are underway to relocate heavy industry to the [[Kampala Business and Industrial Park]], located in [[Namanve]], [[Mukono District]], approximately {{convert|14|km|mi}} east of the city's central business district,<ref>{{cite web | access-date=2019-08-27 | url=https://distancecalculator.globefeed.com/Uganda_Distance_Result.asp?dt1=ChIJCacTwgW5fRcRPuJJw9VOeWU&dt2=ChIJjakXW0K4fRcR3RiO3ljyJ0Q | title=Distance between Kampala Road and Namanve Industrial Park, Mukono, Central Region, Uganda | website=Globefeed Distance Calculator}}</ref> thereby cutting down on city traffic congestion. Some of the businesses that maintain their headquarters in the city center include all of the 25 [[commercial bank]]s licensed in Uganda; the [[New Vision Group]], the leading news media conglomerate and majority owned by the government; and the ''[[Daily Monitor]]'' publication, a member of the Kenya-based [[Nation Media Group]]. [[Air Uganda]] maintained its headquarters in an office complex on [[Kololo]] Hill in Kampala.<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1249387/air-uganda-increases-flights-dar
|title=Air Uganda Increases Flights To Dar
|date=2009-02-23
|newspaper=[[New Vision]]
|access-date=2019-08-27
|archive-date=2019-08-27
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190827020402/https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1249387/air-uganda-increases-flights-dar
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> Crown Beverages Limited, the sole [[Pepsi-Cola]] franchise bottler in the country, is situated in [[Nakawa]], a division of Kampala, about {{convert|5|km|0}} east of the city centre.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=3 February 2016|url=http://www.independent.co.ug/supplement/117-supplement/8335-two-decades-of-positive-growthfor-crownbeverages|title=Two decades of positive growth for Crown Beverages|date=14 October 2013|newspaper=[[The Independent (Uganda)]]|location=Kampala|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203233410/http://www.independent.co.ug/supplement/117-supplement/8335-two-decades-of-positive-growthfor-crownbeverages|archive-date=3 February 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The informal sector is a large contributor to Kampala's GDP. Citizens who work in the formal sector also participate in informal activities to earn more income for their families. A public servant in Kampala, for example, may engage in agriculture in addition to working in the formal sector. Other informal fields include owning taxis and urban agriculture. The use of Kampala's wetlands for urban farming has increased over the past few decades. It connects the informal rural settlements with the more industrialized parts of the city. The produce grown in the wetlands is sold in markets in the urban areas.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Isunju | first1=John Bosco | last2=Orach | first2=Christopher Garimoi | last3=Kemp | first3=Jaco | title=Hazards and vulnerabilities among informal wetland communities in Kampala, Uganda | journal=Environment and Urbanization | publisher=SAGE Publications | volume=28 | issue=1 | date=2015-12-14 | issn=0956-2478 | doi=10.1177/0956247815613689 | pages=275–293| doi-access=free }}</ref>

In December 2015, Google launched its first [[Wi-Fi]] network in Kampala.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35000544|title=Google launches wi-fi network in Kampala, Uganda|date=2015-12-04|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=2019-08-27}}</ref>

While more than 30 percent of Kampala's inhabitants practice [[urban agriculture]], the city of Kampala donated {{convert|32|acre|ha|order=flip}} to promote urban agriculture in the northeastern parish of Kyanja, in [[Nakawa Division]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Wolfe|first1=Jeanne M.|last2=McCans|first2=Sarah|date=June 2009|title=Designing for Urban Agriculture in an African City: Kampala, Uganda.|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/mchg/files/mchg/06-wolfe.pdf|journal=Open House International|volume=34|issue=2|pages=25–35|doi=10.1108/OHI-02-2009-B0004|issn=0168-2601|oclc=311401512}}</ref>