Money is the True Friend

Money is the True Friend
Author: Pernille Sørensen
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2000
Genre: Business ethics
ISBN: 9783825843939

The Ugandan economy was once solidly based on the export of cash crops such as coffee and cotton. The economic crisis and the civil war in the 1970s and 1980s however profoundly changed the agricultural economy, and marketing of traditional cash crops was replaced by marketing of commercialized food crops. "Money is the true friend" deals with the emergence of de-regulated food markets for maize in Eastern Uganda. The focus is not marketing as such, but rather a new social and economic field for local traders demarcated by the involvement in three maize markets: the relief market, the Kenyan market and the domestic market. The central problem illuminated in the book is the relationship between the liberalization of food marketing and the development of a new social and cultural practice - a morality - for trading which is both shaped by and shapes the marketing opportunities for the participating traders.

What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda

What is the role of men in connecting women to cash crop markets? Evidence from Uganda
Author: Ambler, Kate
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

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. Households with more cane blocks and in which the wife is already more involved in cane activities are also more likely to participate. Overall, take-up is high at 70%, and remains high even in those groups that are less likely to take-up. Additionally, we find that blocks transferred to women are not of lower quality or value than those kept by men, though they are smaller and closer to the home. These results suggest that simple encouragement can be an effective tool to nudge men to include their wives in household commercial activities.

Aid in Uganda

Aid in Uganda
Author: Hal Mettrick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1967
Genre: Agricultural assistance
ISBN:

Agriculture in Uganda: Crops

Agriculture in Uganda: Crops
Author: Joseph K. Mukiibi
Publisher: Fountain Books
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Crops offers a comprehensive survey of the various strategies for managing and developing increased and sustainable crop production. The study is organised into eight parts, which are: plant genetics and plant genetic resources in Uganda; cereals - milllets, sorghum and maize, oil crops; grain and legumes; roots and tubers - cassava, yams, sweet potatoes and solanum potatoes, and plantains. The remainder of the study concentrates on the agricultural production of traditional cash crop - cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa and sugar; and touches upon new areas, such sa sericulture and mushroom cultivation.