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THE ROLE OF AGRIBUSINESS IN DEVELOPMENT: REPLACING THE DIMINISHED ROLE OF THE GOVERNMENT IN RAISING RURAL INCOMES

Stanton, Julie V. - In: Journal of Agribusiness 18 (2000) 2

suggests development policy be enlarged to encompass agribusiness enterprises. Localized agribusiness can help rural …

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Reviewing Uganda’s tourism sector for economic and social upgrading

Mwaura, Francis; Ssekitoleko, Solomon - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2012

remains an important avenue for economic growth and poverty reduction, and has experienced growth in investment along the … among tourism actors, impacts of tourism on employment and poverty reduction among gender and social classes and factors …

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Institutional Constraints to Agriculture Development in Uganda

Bategeka, Lawrence; Kiiza, Julius; Kasirye, Ibrahim - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2013

Since the early 1990s, Uganda has implemented a number of reforms in the agricultural sector. However, in the past 10 years, the performance of the sector has lagged behind other sectors particularly services and industry. There are concerns among researchers and policy analysts that...

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Uganda's revealed comparative advantage: the evidence with the EAC and China

Shinyekwa, Isaac; Othieno, Lawrence - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2011

The paper examines the comparative advantage of Uganda’s exports to the East African Community (EAC) partner states, and how it has evolved during the implementation of the EAC treaty. In addition, the paper seeks to identify commodities that Uganda should specialize in as a basis to enhance...

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Agricultural Productivity Constraints in Uganda: Implications for Investment

Rosette, Nabbumba; Godfrey, Bahiigwa - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2003

Uganda has put emphasis on the agricultural sector as a strategy for raising rural incomes and reducing rural poverty …

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What factors determine membership to farmer groups in Uganda? Evidence from the Uganda Census of Agriculture 2008/9

Adong, Annet; Mwaura, Francis; Okoboi, Geofrey - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2012

While government of Uganda and its development partners are targeting farmer groups as the vehicle for agricultural development, there is limited empirical evidence on what drives membership to these groups. Using the Uganda Census of Agriculture 2008/9 data, this paper reveals low levels of...

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The potential impact of the EU-ACP economic partnership Agreement: A case study of the Ugandan horticulture sector

Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC); Economic Policy … - 2010

Uganda has had formal trade ties with Europe since 1973 when, together with several other commonwealth countries, it signed the Lomé Convention. However, trade relations between Europe and Africa started much earlier, in 1957, at first covering 18 francophone countries and six European...

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Privatizing a State Farm in Kazakhstan

Garcia, Roberto J.; Silvis, Anne Heinze - In: Journal of Agribusiness 14 (1996) 1

This dissolution of the Soviet Union served the state-directed linkages between state-owned farms and agribusiness … transformation in the political and economic structures of state-owned farms and state-owned agribusiness enterprises. Directors of …

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Perceptions of Rural Air Quality: What Will the Neighbors Think?

Lohr, Luanne - In: Journal of Agribusiness 14 (1996) 1

Individuals exposed to odors from livestock facilities do not report annoyance uniformly. The reaction to a detectable odor depends on perceptions of the odor and its source which are mediated by odor attributes and personal factors. Correlations among these factors were tested in a rural...

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Food security in Uganda: a dilemma to achieving the millennium development goal

Ssewanyana, Sarah N.; Kasirye, Ibrahim - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) - 2010

terms of caloric intake is alarmingly high with low rates of income poverty. Based on the 2005/06 Uganda National Household …: halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. While Uganda is on track to halve extreme poverty, it is less likely to halve … extreme hunger by 2015. Yet the results suggest that food insecurity and income poverty are closely linked. Similarly, food …

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