Right Target, Wrong Mechanism? Agricultural Modernization and Poverty Reduction in Uganda

Bahiigwa, Godfrey; Rigby, Dan; Woodhouse, Philip

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.09.008

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“…Enhancing a supportive social foundation provides the groundwork from which members of such groups can collectively diversify their activities, especially where social capital is more readily available than financial capital. Indeed participation in such groups is an important mechanism through which households receive formal support, for example, through the National Agricultural Advisory Service, NAADS (see further discussion in Bahiigwa et al 2005;Osbahr et al 2011). …”

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Identifying drivers of household coping strategies to multiple climatic hazards in Western Uganda: implications for adapting to future climate change

Berman

Quinn

Paavola

2014

Climate and Development

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This paper investigates what drives household coping strategies in rural Uganda under different climatic hazards. Rural households in sub-Saharan Africa draw on various coping strategies to reduce the impact of climatic hazards on their livelihoods. Research to date provides only limited understanding of how the coping strategy portfolio of changes depending on the climatic stress. Using empirical data from Uganda, this research contributes to this gap by 1) exploring how household coping strategy relates to household characteristics and livelihood activity;and 2) how these coping strategies vary depending on the hazard. Coping strategy is found to be hazard specific for households that lack market-orientated activities, whereas those with marketaccess rely on economic activities regardless of hazard. The implications that choice of coping strategy has on future adaptation are discussed. To maintain and improve the livelihoods and coping strategies of those most vulnerable to climatic variability and change, policies that advocate diversification away from a sole reliance on customary activities need to recognise the level and opportunity for market-based activities. These interventions must account for different sensitivities to different hazards as well as the homogeneity of the community in order to effectively support rural communities to cope with climate variability.

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Section: Implications For Coping and Adaptation Policymentioning

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Identifying drivers of household coping strategies to multiple climatic hazards in Western Uganda: implications for adapting to future climate change

Berman

Quinn

Paavola

2014

Climate and Development

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“…In Uganda, dairy cattle play a key role in the nutrition, of most households with per capita milk consumption of about 58 litres [4] against FAO requirement of 200 litres per person per year [5]. While annual average milk yield per cow per lactation per year of 305 days in developed countries can go above 8000 kg, less than 2000 kg is obtainable from pure dairy breeds, 1000 from cross breeds and 500 kg from indigenous cows in Uganda [6]. These statistics are obviously distressing in light of the rapidly growing human population at a rate of 3.2% annually [7].…”

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Prioritization of Crop Residues for Improving Productivity on Smallholder Dairy Farming Households in the Lake Victoria Crescent, Uganda

Atuhaire¹,

Mugerwa²,

Okello³

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Poor nutrition has been identified as a major constraint to productivity in smallholder dairy farming households in Uganda, particularly in Lake Victoria Crescent Agro-ecological Zone (LVZ). Clarification on nutritional potential of crop residues is central to formulation of sustainable dairy cattle nutrition strategies. Data were collected from 126 randomly selected respondents using structured and semi-structured questionnaires. Farmers' responses on crop residues utilization, handling, limitations, spatial and temporal variability were collected. Kruskal-Wallis test showed significant differences on utilization of available crop residues (X 2 = 50.4, df = 4, p = 0.0001) among farmer's rankings. It was established that maize stovers were major crop residues utilized and inadequate knowledge to process crop residues was ranked as a major limitation. The study provided basic information on the importance of crop residues. Further research studies should focus on improving the nutritive value of maize stover.

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“…Francis and James (2003) and Bahiigwa, Rigby and Woodhouse (2005) argue that decentralized governments in Uganda, often captured by local elites, are not independent or accountable to voters, and so are not useful tools for poverty reduction. Samoff (1990) asserts that decentralization reforms around the world have mostly failed, and finds the evidence on responsiveness strongly negative.…”

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Making Reform Work: Institutions, Dispositions, and the Improving Health of Bangladesh

Faguet

Ali

2009

World Development

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We examine whether local governance can improve social development empirically, using good and bad cases of public health outcomes in Bangladesh. We explore the institutional underpinnings of service provision, digging down beneath the "rules of the game" to analyze the beliefs, understandings and dispositions that drive social behavior.Changes in deep social attitudes led to improvements in social indicators. Regional variation in health outcomes is explained by the presence or absence of a dense web of relationships that enmeshed reformers in local systems of authority and legitimacy, strengthening their actions and making local society more susceptible to change.

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Right Target, Wrong Mechanism? Agricultural Modernization and Poverty Reduction in Uganda

Cited by 72 publications

References 18 publications

Identifying drivers of household coping strategies to multiple climatic hazards in Western Uganda: implications for adapting to future climate change

Identifying drivers of household coping strategies to multiple climatic hazards in Western Uganda: implications for adapting to future climate change

Prioritization of Crop Residues for Improving Productivity on Smallholder Dairy Farming Households in the Lake Victoria Crescent, Uganda

Making Reform Work: Institutions, Dispositions, and the Improving Health of Bangladesh

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