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Realizing 'Uganda Vision 2040' through Livestock
How many households keep livestock in rural and urban areas? What are their major production and husbandry practices, and their constraints to increase livestock productivity? This infographic presents an analysis of one of the largest datasets on livestock at household level available throughout sub-Saharan Africa: the Uganda 2011/12 National Panel...
Uganda
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
صحيفة وقائع
Mobilizing the Data Revolution
The data revolution must address three major challenges in order to contribute to sustainable development: increasing the quantity and quality of data; making the data usable; and ensuring their use by decision-makers.
This infographic shows how the data revolution can be mobilized, with an example from the livestock sector. In collaboration...
Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
وثيقة عمل
Gender productivity differentials among smallholder farmers in Africa
A cross-country comparison
This article investigates gender inequality in agricultural productivity, highlights its key determinants, and approximates the potential production, consumption, and poverty gains from reducing or closing the gender productivity gap. The analysis is performed on the basis of representative household survey datasets recently collected in Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. In these...
Nigeria - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - African Development Bank Group
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
The dynamics of smallholder marketing behavior
Explorations using Ugandan and Mozambican panel data
Market participation by smallholder farmers has the potential to pull farmers out of poverty while at the same time increasing food security at the more aggregate level. This paper looks at the dynamics of smallholder maize and beans marketing in Uganda and Mozambique. Using panel data from both countries, we...
Mozambique - Uganda
2015 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
وقائع مؤتمرات
ASARECA praised for making EAAPP a reality
ASARECA has been praised for providing mechanisms and technical backstopping for regional centres of excellence to work together and share technologies, Innovations and Management Practices during EAAPP Phase 1.
Ethiopia - Kenya - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Empowering Ugandan students through school farm camps
FAO equips students with practical agricultural skills for sustainable farming.
FAO and Gayaza High School in Uganda are working together to develop opportunities for students to learn and acquire agricultural skills while eating healthier and nutritious food. A FAO project to help the high school acquire production input and facilities is showing promising results. Through the project, a greenhouse for...
Uganda
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
تقرير
A Review of Women's Access to Fish in Small-Scale Fisheries
Women play a critical role in every link of the value chain in small-scale fisheries, although their best-known roles are in processing and marketing of fish and other fishery products. This perception of the highly gender-segregated division of labour (men fishing / women processing) has shaped the generalized approach in...
Bangladesh - Cambodia - Ghana - Malawi - Mozambique - Nigeria - Solomon Islands - South Africa - Thailand - Tunisia - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
كتاب
Scaling up dissemination and adoption of agricultural technologies using Innovation Platforms
Lessons from Eastern and Central Africa
Between 2008 and 2013 ASARECA coordinated and provided leadership in implementing a project called “Dissemination of New Agricultural Technologies in Africa” (DONATA) across 6 countries in eastern and central Africa. The approach in DONATA was the innovation platform for technology adoption (IPTA). At the start of the project, there were...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ethiopia - Kenya - Rwanda - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
New mobile application proves essential to Uganda's veterinary technicians
The EMPRES-i Event Mobile Application is helping to improve the speed and efficiency of animal disease control in Uganda.
The EMPRES-i Event Mobile Application (EMA) allows national veterinary authorities to use smartphones to report disease outbreaks. It also allows district veterinary officers to access disease reports submitted by colleagues. During the second half of 2013, the app was tested in a pilot which took place in ten districts of...
Uganda
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
كتاب
Youth and agriculture
Key challenges and concrete solutions
This publication provides real life examples on how to re-engage youth in agriculture. It shows how tailor-made educational programmes can provide rural youth with the skills and insights needed to engage in farming and adopt environmentally friendly production methods. Many of the initiatives and approaches reported in this study originate...
Bahamas - Bangladesh - Brazil - Burkina Faso - Cambodia - Canada - China - Colombia - Ethiopia - France - Ghana - Grenada - Kenya - Madagascar - Mexico - Pakistan - Philippines - Republic of Moldova - Rwanda - Togo - Uganda - United States of America - Zambia
2014
وثيقة مؤتمر
Effect of entrepreneurship training of smallholder farmers on soybean productivity and household incomes in Lango Sub-region, Northern Uganda
The soybean value chain has a potential to increase smallholder farmers’ incomes and has significant growth potential yet soybean farming households lack services such as education which is tailored to address the real challenges they face in maximizing profits from farming. There is thus a need to integrate entrepreneurship training....
Uganda
2014 - Makerere University
وثيقة عمل
Strengthening Producer Organizations to unleash productive potential of smallholder farmers in Uganda
Producer organizations (PO) can improve market access, lower transaction costs and increase the profits of smallholder farmers by offsetting diseconomies of scale (Heyer et al., 1999; Hill et al., 2008; The World Bank, 2008). Yet, evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa shows that POs often fail to attain these objectives. Instead of...
Uganda
2014 - University of Mannheim
دليل
Field guide to Adaptive Collaborative Management and improving women’s participation
The purpose of this manual is to provide practical guidance and examples of how to apply Adaptive Collaborative Management (ACM) methods in communities and how to teach those methods to others. ACM is a collective problem-solving and management approach. With ACM everybody can participate, contribute their knowledge and learn together...
Nicaragua - Uganda
2014 - Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
وثيقة مؤتمر
Constraints and opportunities for sustainable partnership between Universities, small-holder farming communities and development agencies
Efforts were undertaken through the auspices of a collaborative project “Strengthening Universities Capacities for Mitigating Climate Induced Change Water Vulnerability – WATERCAP” to address a key challenge of water scarcity in dryland areas of Uganda. A multisciplinary team engaged since 2009 has through implementation of this project observed the constraints...
Uganda
2014 - Makerere University
مجلة
Spore: Family farming, the beginning of a renaissance
More than 500 million family farms dominate agriculture around the world ensuring food security and providing employment to hundreds of millions of people. Family farms are also essential in safeguarding agro-biodiversity, and sustaining communities and cultures. However, family farming faces numerous challenges including insecure land rights, and limited access to...
Côte d'Ivoire - Kenya - Samoa - Uganda
2014
مقال صحفي
Smallholder farmers’ decision and level of participation in the potato market in Uganda
Smallholder potato farmers in Uganda face many production and marketing challenges including limited access to markets and low surpluses for sale into the market. This study sought to underscore the factors that influence smallholder farmers’ decision to participate in the potato market and level of participation in such markets. Data...
Uganda
2014
الممارسات
Rainwater harvesting systems for tomato growing in Uganda
This technology describes utilizing rooftop water harvesting facilities to increase the availability of water for domestic use and irrigation of backyard tomato gardens. This measure allows small-scale farmers to harvest rainwater from roofs and store it in tanks, ensuring tomato production also during the dry season, when it would be otherwise...
Uganda
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
موقع إنترنت
Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM)
The Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM) is an initiative focused on making risk management an integral part of policy planning and implementation in the agricultural sector in developing countries.
The overall objective of PARM is to contribute to sustainable agricultural growth, reduce food insecurity, and improve livelihoods of rural and...
Cabo Verde - Cameroon - Ethiopia - Liberia - Niger - Senegal - Uganda - Zambia
2014 - Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM)
وثيقة مؤتمر
The role of farmers’ organizations in linking smallholder farmers to maize markets in Eastern Uganda
The warehouse receipt system for maize (Zea mays L.) was introduced in Uganda to enhance farmer access to markets and credit in order to increase the efficiency of the maize value chain and to improve smallholder incomes. Though, since the inception of the warehouse receipt system in Uganda, there has...
Uganda
2014 - Makerere University
صحيفة وقائع
FAO’s Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools give children a voice
Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools (JFFLS) are a simple methodology for teaching vulnerable children and young people about farming, entrepreneurial skills and how to take care of themselves. These schools follow a “living classroom” approach in which the students or children out of school observe the crops throughout the...
Uganda
2014 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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