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Are women less productive farmers?
How markets and risk affect fertilizer use, productivity, and measured gender effects in Uganda
African governments and international development groups see boosting productivity on smallholder farms as key to reducing rural poverty and safeguarding the food security of farming and non-farming households. Prompting smallholder farmers to use more fertilizer has been a key tactic. Closing the productivity gap between male and female farmers has...
Uganda
2015 - World Bank
Note/document d'orientation
Africa’s smallholders adapting to climate change
The need for national governments and international climate finance to support women producers
Climate change is undermining the ability of African nations to feed themselves. Women smallholder producers are on the front line of dealing with the impacts, but are not first in line for international climate finance. Wealthy countries have committed to helping countries in Africa to adapt to climate change, but...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Malawi - Mozambique - Nigeria - South Africa - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia
2015 - Oxfam International
Note/document d'orientation
Gender and rural development brief
East and Southern Africa
The countries of East and Southern Africa have made major commitments to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, and they are starting to pay off. A number of countries have achieved substantial progress towards gender parity in primary school enrolment. Nearly all countries have adopted quota systems requiring women’s participation...
Angola - Botswana - Burundi - Comoros - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Kenya - Lesotho - Madagascar - Malawi - Mauritius - Mozambique - Namibia - Rwanda - Seychelles - South Africa - South Sudan - Eswatini - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Article de blog
FAO and China announce second phase of programme to boost agribusiness in Uganda
South-South sharing of knowledge and best-practices in food production and agribusiness to expand
FAO, China and Uganda signed a two year agreement worth almost $2.5 million to support small-scale farmers in Uganda in boosting their production, including through sustainable technologies. The agreement marks the second phase of a partnership initially established in 2012 to make training and technical advice available to the Ugandan...
China - Uganda
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Document de travail
Smallholders’ Land Ownership and Access in Sub-Saharan Africa
A new landscape?
While scholars agree on the importance of land rental markets for structural transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent and nature of their operation, including potential obstacles to their improved functioning, remains limited. This study uses household-level data from six countries to start filling this gap and derive substantive...
Ethiopia - Malawi - Niger - Nigeria - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2015 - World Bank Group
Document de travail
Investigating the gender gap in agricultural productivity
Evidence from Uganda
Women comprise 50 percent of the agricultural labor force in Sub-Saharan Africa, but manage plots that are reportedly on average 20 to 30 percent less productive. As a source of income inequality and aggregate productivity loss, the country-specific magnitude and drivers of this gender gap are of great interest. Using...
Uganda
2015 - World Bank
Article de blog
Helping Uganda’s agriculture grow in a changing world
Faced with a rising population and changing climate, farmers learn new approaches to agribusiness.
Since 2012, 31 Chinese experts and technicians have been sent to Uganda to provide technical assistance in crop production, aquaculture, horticulture, livestock and agribusiness. The team has successfully transferred 25 new technologies, and introduced 17 new varieties such as hybrid rice, foxtail millet and maize, as well as four pieces...
Uganda
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de revue
The faces at the frontline
Working with principles of agroecology, women around the world are pioneering new practices in food and farming. Farming Matters proudly presents Esther, Ann, Allu, Lilian, Elizabeth, Mariama and Esther.
The biggest challenge we face now is the limited awareness of ecological practices and lack of land for smallholders. We are very much against the current push for hybrids and GMOs and the dependence that comes with them. Thus we call upon our government to declare Tanzania free of such...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Ecuador - India - Netherlands (Kingdom of the) - Senegal - Uganda
2015 - ILEIA, Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture
Projet
Programme for the Restoration of Livelihoods in Northern Uganda (PRELNOR)
Northern Uganda is home to 20 per cent of Uganda's entire population, but it accounts for 38 per cent of Uganda's poorest. The Acholi sub-region and Adjumani district have suffered more from recent internal conflicts than other areas in the north. Living in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps has...
Uganda
2015 - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Vidéos
Farming as a Business in Eastern Africa
Success stories from the FAO Food Security through Commercialization of Agriculture (FSCA) Programme funded by the Italian Development Cooperation in Eastern Africa. Supporting market oriented production and value addition. Facilitating business linkages and access to fair markets. Promoting efficiency and professionalization of value chain actors.
Burundi - Rwanda - Uganda
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rapport
Community Seed Production
Due to this underlying need, FAO, in collaboration with ICRISAT, ICARDA, and CIAT, organized an expert consultation workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in December 2013 on Community Seed Production. The workshop’s objective was to create a roadmap and develop strategies for enhancing effective uptake and implementation of CSP in developing...
Afghanistan - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Ecuador - Ethiopia - India - Malawi - Nepal - Peru - Uganda
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Article de blog
Equal rights begin in the home
Household mentoring in Uganda
Household mentoring is an innovative tool that provides the skills and knowledge that enable poor families to improve their well-being and incomes. And, as an IFAD-supported programme in Uganda has shown, it also promotes greater equality and shared decision-making among household members.
Uganda
2015 - United Nations International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Article de blog
Africa Day of Food and Nutrition Security commemorated in Uganda
African governments have been asked to link agriculture and extension services with nutrition
Representatives of African countries and development partners commemorated the 6th Africa Day of Food and Nutrition Security, sounding a strong call for investments in nutrition sensitive agriculture. The call was emphasized among key recommendations made by technical stakeholders who met in Kampala two days ahead of the 6th ADFNs commemoration....
Uganda
2015 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Fiche d'information
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)
Fiche d'information
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)
Document de travail
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
Note/document d'orientation
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)
Comptes rendus de conférence
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)
Article 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)
Rapport
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)
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