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The paper investigates whether the East African Community, comprising of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, constitutes an …
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Is rapid economic growth experienced by the East African Community during the past decade built on solid foundations? To gain some clues, we use a variety of newly-collected and existing data sources to analyze the structural transformation of output and exports, as well as indicators of their...
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This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarizing both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the...
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Banana is a staple crop in Uganda. Ugandans have the highest per capita consumption of cooking bananas in the world … (Clarke 2003). However, banana production in Uganda is limited by several productivity con¬straints, such as insects … long term. Uganda formally initi¬ated its short-term approach in the early 1990s; it involves the collection of both local …
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general. In 2008, the National Biosafety Committee of Uganda approved the guidelines for implementing con¬fined trials, which …
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process. Using the case of GM cotton in Uganda, the authors illustrate the evaluation of socioeconomic impact on farmers, the …
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A variable climate, political instability, and other constraints have limited agricultural development in African countries south of the Sahara. Genetically modified (GM) crops are one tool for enhancing agricultural productivity and food security despite such constraints. Genetically Modified...
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In 1990 women’s rights activists in Uganda successfully lobbied to amend the Defilement Law, raising the age of sexual … in east-central Uganda to examine the impact of the age of consent law at national and local levels, and specifically …
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