An advocate of food self-sufficiency for Uganda, Bukenya wants Ugandans to eat more homegrown rice, thereby boosting local farmers and rice millers while freeing hard cash for higher uses. Bukenya has long promoted a new strain of African rice that grows in uplands (as opposed to wetland paddies) and requires less water.
更聪明地工作并不是一句空泛的口号；它是非洲农业现代化的关键。作为乌干达粮食自给自足的倡导者，Bukenya想让乌干达人吃更多自产的大米，从而促进农民和碾米业者的生产，同时又能将节省下来的现金用到更需要的地方。Bukenya长久以来就一直推广在高地（相对于湿地稻田）种植一种新品种的非洲稻。它的需水量更小。