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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2004
    Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Uganda

    The government of Uganda, with help from its development partners, is designing and implementing policies and strategies to address poverty, land degradation, and declining agricultural productivity. Land degradation, especially soil erosion and depletion of soil nutrients, is widespread in Uganda and contributes to declining productivity, which in turn increases poverty.

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    The case of Uganda

    Peer-reviewed publication
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2008
    Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Uganda

    Agriculture is vital to the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa: two-thirds of the region’s people depend on it for their livelihoods. Nevertheless, agricultural productivity in most of the region is stagnant or declining, in large part because of land degradation. Soil erosion and soil nutrient depletion degraded almost 70 percent of the region’s land between 1945 and 1990; 20 percent of total agricultural land has been severely degraded. If left unchecked, land degradation could seriously threaten the progress of economic growth and poverty reduction in Africa.

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2004
    Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Uganda

    This paper investigates the patterns and determinants of change in income strategies ("development pathways"), land management, resource and human welfare conditions in Uganda since 1990, based upon a community-level survey conducted in 107 villages. Six dominant development pathways were found, all but one of which involved increasing specialization in already dominant activities. Of these, expansion of banana and coffee production was most associated with adoption of resource-conserving practices and improvements in resource conditions and welfare.

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    The determinants of enactment, awareness, and compliance with community natural resource management regulations in Uganda

    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2008
    Eastern Africa, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda
  5. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2018
    Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Uganda

    Programs that seek to increase women’s participation in marketing activities related to the principal household economic activity must involve men if they are to be successful. In this paper we analyze take-up of a project that sought to increase women’s involvement in sugarcane marketing and sales by encouraging the registration of a sugarcane block contract in the wife’s name. We find that men who are more educated and live in households with higher wealth and expenditures are more likely to agree to the registration.

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2018
    Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Uganda

    This project tests two approaches to increasing women’s integration into and returns from cash crop value chains. We aim to determine whether these interventions affect intrahousehold allocation of resources, decision-making power, consumption and investment, productivity of the cash crop at the household level, and success of contract ful-fillment for the buyer of the crop.

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    theoretical and empirical analyses from Uganda and Malawi

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2000
    Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Uganda, Malawi

    This paper examines the effects of tenure on tree management at a community level. First, several important conceptual issues arising from this particular meso-level focus are discussed. Second, a description of the key tenure and tree management issues in Uganda and Malawi is presented. In each case, data representing changes in land use and tree cover between the 1960-70s and 1990s are analyzed. In both countries, there has been significant conversion of land from woodlands to agriculture. Tree cover has been more or less maintained over time in Uganda but has decreased in Malawi.

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    Are the rural poor gaining?

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2008
    Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda

    Forest sector governance reform is frequently promoted as a policy tool for achieving favorable livelihood outcomes in the low income tropics. However, there is a dearth of empirical evidence to support this claim, particularly at the household level. Drawing on the case of a major forest sector governance reform implemented in Uganda in 2003, this study seeks to fill that gap.

  9. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2004
    Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Uganda

    Soil nutrient depletion in Uganda is one of the leading environmental degradation problems threatening the livelihoods of most farmers in the region. In order to identify policy options that may be used to address the problem, this study was conducted with an objective of analyzing the determinants of flow and balances of nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), and Potassium (K) in Uganda. Data for this study were collected from 58 randomly selected farmers who participated in on-farm fertilizer trials and household surveys conducted in 2000 to 2001.

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