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Documento de trabajo
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
Documento/nota de orientación
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)
Actas de conferencia
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)
Artículo de blog
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)
Informe
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)
Libro
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)
Artículo de blog
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)
Documento de la Conferencia
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
Documento de trabajo
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
Documento de la Conferencia
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
Revista especializada
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
Artículo de revista especializada
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
Prácticas
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)
Sitio web
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)
Documento de la Conferencia
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
Hoja informativa
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)
Vídeo
The Voice of a Female Farmer from Uganda, with Rose Akaki
Interviewed onsite at The Economist Feeding the World Summit 2014, Rose Akaki tells Farming First the key challenges faced by female farmers in Uganda and offers her recommendations for improving agriculture in her country.
Uganda
2014 - FarmingFirst
Documento de trabajo
Does institutional finance matter for agriculture?
Evidence using panel data from Uganda
Smallholder agriculture in many developing countries has remained largely self-financed. However, improved productivity for attaining greater food security requires better access to institutional credit. Past efforts to extend institutional credit to smaller farmers has failed for several reasons, including subsidized operation of government-aided credit schemes. Thus, recent efforts to expand...
Uganda
2014 - World Bank Group
Documento de trabajo
Understanding the agricultural input landscape in sub-Saharan Africa
Recent plot, household, and community-level evidence
Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs despite the fact that most growth-inducing and poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the region is expected to come largely from expanded use of inputs that embody improved technologies, particularly improved seed, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals, machinery, and irrigation. Yet following...
Ethiopia - Malawi - Niger - Nigeria - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2014 - World Bank Group
Estudio de caso
The contribution of rural smallholder farming landscapes towards carbon sequestration
A case study of Maleka parish, Mayuge district
Uganda’s landscape is dominated by Small scale farmers who maintain trees on-farm to satisfy their basic needs. On-farm trees contribute to reduction of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and in this way contribute climate change mitigation. It has been observed that some farms are not managing trees appropriately. In order...
Uganda
2014 - Makerere University
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