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    The agrarian question and the role of women as chief agricultural producers in Africa: the case of Uganda
    ( 1984-02-10) Ayuru, Rose N.
    Women's participation in agricultural production cannot be viewed outside the socio-economic, socio-cultural and political contexts of the societies in which they find themselves. Similarly, agricultural productivity must be analysed within the framework of the agrarian system in question, if a correct analysis is to be made. Furthermore, women's participation in agriculture, in particular, and in economic activities, in general, should be looked at through their role within the division of labor in a given society.
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    Agricultural change: compulsion in the implementation agricultural policies: a case study from Iringa
    ( 1985) Nindi, B. C.
    In order to clarify the content of the tragic case discussed in this paper, background Sections on selected characteristics of the district are given. The paper discusses the evolution of farming systems in Ismani Division- Iringa District, and the considerable development of social stratification. There were progressive innovators – including those who owned lorries, individual farmers using mechanized equipment, farmers employing labour etc on one side and traditional peasants and traditional peasants and herders on the other side.
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    Agricultural change: compulsion in the implementation agricultural policies: a case study from Iringa
    ( 1985) Nindi, B. C.
    In order to clarify the content of the tragic case discussed in this paper, background Sections on selected characteristics of the district are given. The paper discusses the evolution of farming systems in Ismani Division- Iringa District, and the considerable development of social stratification. There were progressive innovators – including those who owned lorries, individual farmers using mechanized equipment, farmers employing labour etc on one side and traditional peasants and traditional peasants and herders on the other side.
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    An analysis of the demand for sugar in East Africa
    ( 1964-11-05) Frank, C. R.
    This EDRP paper is the basis for one of the chapters in a monograph dealing with some problems in the development of the sugar industry in East Africa. The purpose of this paper is to attempt to measure the effects of various variables on sugar consumption in East Africa and to project consumption to 1970 by an analysis of time series data.
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    Aspects of food shortages in Tanganyika (1925-45)
    ( 1966-12) Mascarenhas, A.
    The problem of food hunger and shortage has attracted the attention of scholars from a number of different disciplines. Members of the medical profession are interested in the problem largely because of its direct physiological manifestation. A school in anthropology considers food production as a vital determinant of human behaviour.
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    Capitalism and peasant agriculture in Africa.
    ( 1984) Anyang, Nyongo P.
    The inability of capitalism to destroy pre-capitalist relations of production in African agriculture, or its co-existence with such relations of production has led to various theories purporting to explain the manner in which pre-capitalist nodes of production are "usually" incorporated into, or subordinated to the capitalist mode of production bring the early phases of capitalist development.
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    Food security and nutrition: the experience of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980
    ( 1993-09) Chipika, Jesimen T
    Zimbabwe was one of the few African countries that received international acclaim or recognition for its "success" story in agricultural development in the 1980s. This recognition was generally but mistakenly equated with the elimination of hunger among the Zimbabwean population. Zimbabwe was obviously food secure at the national level during the early to late 1980s and had on several occasions exported maize to its neighbouring countries during the first 10 years of independence. The positive contribution of the peasant/communal sector to this national food self-sufficiency since the early 1980s could not go unnoticed. This was regarded as having been a response to the progressive role played by the state in advancing an effective agricultural incentive package which included better prices, extension, credit, marketing facilities etc. This paper discusses Zimbabwe's agricultural policies in the 1980s and how these led to the "success" story; the distribution of this national success among the population; the emerging problems of hunger and malnutrition and their relationship to poverty, food production and distribution. Finally, some thoughts are given on the possible integration of agricultural and nutrition policy during the 1990s and beyond.
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    Food security and nutrition: the experience of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980
    ( 1993-09) Chipika, Jesimen T
    Zimbabwe was one of the few African countries that received international acclaim or recognition for its "success" story in agricultural development in the 1980s. This recognition was generally but mistakenly equated with the elimination of hunger among the Zimbabwean population. Zimbabwe was obviously food secure at the national level during the early to late 1980s and had on several occasions exported maize to its neighbouring countries during the first 10 years of independence. The positive contribution of the peasant/communal sector to this national food self-sufficiency since the early 1980s could not go unnoticed. This was regarded as having been a response to the progressive role played by the state in advancing an effective agricultural incentive package which included better prices, extension, credit, marketing facilities etc. This paper discusses Zimbabwe's agricultural policies in the 1980s and how these led to the "success" story; the distribution of this national success among the population; the emerging problems of hunger and malnutrition and their relationship to poverty, food production and distribution. Finally, some thoughts are given on the possible integration of agricultural and nutrition policy during the 1990s and beyond.
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    Food systems under stress (FSUS) project FSUS/PRA workshop – Tanzania Magindu Village, Kibaha District, 23-25 August 1993.
    ( 1994-04) Kauzeni, A.K. ; Kiwasila, Hilda ; Mabanga, Faustin ; Ngana, James ; Pottier, Johan ; Sikana, Patrick
    Magindu village lies within the Coastal Region and is situated 25 km south of Chalinze (about 45 minutes by car along a sandy track) just beyond the intersection with the Central Railway Line. The village is inhabited by Wakwere and Kutu cultivators (90) %) and Maasai cattle keepers (10%). Magindu's history can be summed up as one of consecutive droughts and people moving in and out of the area. Al though drought occurs periodically, rainfall is not necessarily a limiting factor, and can go up to 800 mm a year. The soils, however, are not very deep. (Dodoma is much drier, but a lot of aid and research is already focused on that region). In 1990-1991 Magindu suffered terribly in the drought, which was so severe that it put Magindu on the political map. Ministers visited the area.
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    Food Systems Under Stress (FSUS) Project. Country Profile: Zambia
    ( 1994-03) Chuzu, Pia
    This paper is one in a series of five from participating countries in the Food Systems Under Stress (FSUS) programme, the initial phase of which began in May, 1993. Other participating countries in this programme are Botswana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Among the objectives of the FSUS programme are:- - To develop with regard to areas where food systems are particularly stressed, a cross disciplinary base and research approach for innovative, field-based inquiries into natural resource management and food production/acquisition and consumption; - To stimulate research into the often neglected socio-economic and institutional dimensions of food systems under stress; and - To assist in the creation of strategies that will empower resource poor communities to articulate their needs clearly and effectively so that they become co-authors of the policies that affect them. The FSUS programme is expected to run for 3 years during which it is envisaged to achieve these objectives. One of the activities of the first phase of the programme is for the participating countries to document the current situation in their countries with regard to food security, to trace the evolution of national food policy and national nutritional policy; and to draw the linkages between the two. These are some of the objectives of this paper.
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    Food Systems Under Stress (FSUS) Project. Country Profile: Zambia
    ( 1994-03) Chuzu, Pia
    This paper is one in a series of five from participating countries in the Food Systems Under Stress (FSUS) programme, the initial phase of which began in May, 1993. Other participating countries in this programme are Botswana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Among the objectives of the FSUS programme are:- - To develop with regard to areas where food systems are particularly stressed, a cross disciplinary base and research approach for innovative, field-based inquiries into natural resource management and food production/acquisition and consumption; - To stimulate research into the often neglected socio-economic and institutional dimensions of food systems under stress; and - To assist in the creation of strategies that will empower resource poor communities to articulate their needs clearly and effectively so that they become co-authors of the policies that affect them. The FSUS programme is expected to run for 3 years during which it is envisaged to achieve these objectives. One of the activities of the first phase of the programme is for the participating countries to document the current situation in their countries with regard to food security, to trace the evolution of national food policy and national nutritional policy; and to draw the linkages between the two. These are some of the objectives of this paper.
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    Food systems under stress: the Uganda situation
    ( 1993-07) Onweng-Angura, Tobias
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    Food systems under stress: the Uganda situation
    ( 1993-07) Onweng-Angura, Tobias
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    Gender and poverty: the agriculture sector programme support in Uganda.
    ( 1999) Barasa, Catherine
    At the time of writings, Uganda was the only country in Africa with an established Ministry of Gender. The country has an operational National Gender Policy to facilitate the process of mainstreaming gender concerns in the national development process. The policy outlines the strategies to be followed and the institutional framework. It is concluded that poverty eradication and gender equity can only be achieved through recognition of the fact that the two are complementary.
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    Gender and poverty: the agriculture sector programme support in Uganda.
    ( 1999) Barasa, Catherine
    At the time of writings, Uganda was the only country in Africa with an established Ministry of Gender. The country has an operational National Gender Policy to facilitate the process of mainstreaming gender concerns in the national development process. The policy outlines the strategies to be followed and the institutional framework. It is concluded that poverty eradication and gender equity can only be achieved through recognition of the fact that the two are complementary.
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    Land tenure, access to land, and agricultural development in Uganda.
    ( 1989-08) Barrows, Richard ; Kisamba-Mugerwa, W.
    Africanist scholars and African governments are caught in a land policy dilemma. Both neoclassical economic theory and Marxist theory assert that increased concentration of landholding is a precondition to development (Berry, 1988). Neoclassical economic theory demonstrates that, in a market economy, individuals who can use land more productively will bid land away from those whose uses are less valuable. Increased production results from both increased productivity per acre from the change to users with higher managerial skill, and from possible economies of scale in production processes. Likewise, Marxist theory asserts that increased concentration of landholding is central to the formation of the capitalist class, through exploitation of displaced labor and increased use of capital in production (Berry, 1988).
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    Land tenure, access to land, and agricultural development in Uganda.
    ( 1989-08) Barrows, Richard ; Kisamba-Mugerwa, W.
    Africanist scholars and African governments are caught in a land policy dilemma. Both neoclassical economic theory and Marxist theory assert that increased concentration of landholding is a precondition to development (Berry, 1988). Neoclassical economic theory demonstrates that, in a market economy, individuals who can use land more productively will bid land away from those whose uses are less valuable. Increased production results from both increased productivity per acre from the change to users with higher managerial skill, and from possible economies of scale in production processes. Likewise, Marxist theory asserts that increased concentration of landholding is central to the formation of the capitalist class, through exploitation of displaced labor and increased use of capital in production (Berry, 1988).
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    The livestock industry: its changing pattern in subsistence farming and East African development.
    ( 2014-10-14) Musangi, R.S.
    It is widely recognised that East Africa is essentially an agricultural country although recently industrialization, especially in the processing sector of primary agricultural products, has received great attention. Except in certain areas of Kenya and Tanzania highlands and isolated estates of plantation crops such as tea, sisal, coffee and sugar, the bulk of East African agriculture is subsistence in character.
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    Planning methods for agriculture in less-developed countries.
    ( 1966) Belshaw, D. G. R.
    This paper will consider agricultural planning methodology under four heads. Firstly, the major features and problems of t he typical agricultural sector in a less- developed country are discussed with particular reference to the economic planning process, Secondly , standard planning procedures for the inter-sectoral allocation of resources are assessed from the point of view of their feasibility and accuracy for the agricultural sector . The identification of alternative strategies for agricultural development is then discussed briefly and finally the main features of a systematic planning procedure for the agricultural sector are presented.
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    Planning methods for agriculture in less-developed countries.
    ( 1966) Belshaw, D. G. R.
    This paper will consider agricultural planning methodology under four heads. Firstly, the major features and problems of t he typical agricultural sector in a less- developed country are discussed with particular reference to the economic planning process, Secondly , standard planning procedures for the inter-sectoral allocation of resources are assessed from the point of view of their feasibility and accuracy for the agricultural sector . The identification of alternative strategies for agricultural development is then discussed briefly and finally the main features of a systematic planning procedure for the agricultural sector are presented.