pronounced coffee price fluctuations in Uganda during the 1990s. As expected, the price boom of the early 1990s was associated …

applied policy research. This paper aims to develop poverty assessment tools for four countries: Bangladesh, Peru, Uganda, and …

We investigate the impacts of coffee and cotton production on land management and land degradation in Uganda, based on …

Increasing smallholder farmers’ access to credit is a paramount concern in Africa in general and in Uganda in … tenure rights, rather than title to those rights, affect credit access for rural households in Uganda. The fact that access …

The paper investigates the conflicting findings in empirical studies linking land productivity to plot size, livestock … rural markets. We control for these problems using household and plot level panel data from rural farmers in Uganda. We find … that ownership of cattle has a negative and significant impact on land productivity. Investment in farm related assets …

farming communities in Uganda, to date no attempt has been made to document the likelihood of farmer adoption of these hybrid … bananas in Uganda. The paper has analyzed farmers’ perceptions regarding the newly developed improved Matooke hybrid banana … attributes in Uganda to ex ante understand farmers’ likelihood of adoption of these varieties. Descriptive statistics and data …

production and land degradation; based upon a survey of over 450 households and their farm plots in Uganda. The results generally …

agricultural production, consumption and trade, and resulted in significant agricultural productivity improvements. However, there … of this study is to measure and compare the levels and trends in agricultural productivity in transition countries with … Organization (FAO). This study employs a parametric distance function approach to measure Malmquist productivity index as well as …

approach applied to panel data for the period 2003-2005. Knowledge of the relative contribution of factors productivity and … contribution of total factor productivity is found to be the main source of that growth. …

We analyze the correlation between farm productivity and market participation using comparable household data from … productivity, which we relate to that household’s level of participation in local markets using a wide range of agricultural … productivity have greater participation in agricultural markets. In contrast, households with greater rates of market participation …