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David Mugambe Mpiima, Consolata Kabonesa, Henry Manyire, Margareta Espling
The New Normal? Farmer Groups, ICTs, and Empowerment in Apac District, Lango Region in Northern Uganda
27 Seiten · 5,28 EUR
(08. Januar 2020)
From the conclusions:
In Kenya, farmer groups that are largely women oriented have been found to examine new ways of delivering extension services and increasing women’s participation in productive agriculture. This is what this chapter focuses on in its assessment of farmer groups, empowerment and the use of mobile phones and radios in agricultural production.
This chapter highlights:
- the efforts that are being made by different NGOs to better the lives of rural farmers belonging to farmer groups in Uganda using diverse approaches to achieve a similar goal (...)
- the importance of sending messages about gender to the general agricultural information so as to improve gender relations, achieve more equitable participation of both male and female farmers in decision-making, earnings and control of incomes after marketing produce (...)
- and also reveals a need to build sustainability within communities in terms of the provision of information technologies to farmers.
The selection for this study of farmer groups whose support from an WOUGNET/KIC had long expired, was deliberate in order to check if it is possible for farmers to maintain the use of technology and organisational infrastructure built by NGOs.
Transculturality and Community
holds a PhD in Gender Studies and is an Assistant Lecturer in the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University. He has taught, researched and published on gender, ICTs and agriculture for over 10 years. His other research interests include gender, politics and governance. He is a certified gender auditor as well as gender and equity budgeting specialist.
is an Associate Professor and former Dean of the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University. Her research interests include gender and ageing, sexual reproductive health and rights among the youth, as well as gender identities. She has coordinated the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) programme in the School of Women and Gender Studies from 2002 to date. She has supported several public universities through the SIDA project to come up with gender policies and anti-sexual harassment policies.
is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Women and Gender Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Makerere University. He holds a PhD in Gender Studies from Makerere University, Uganda. He has facilitated training in gender analysis for agricultural scientists for the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), for the Association for Strengthening Agriculture Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) and for several Civil Society Organizations in Uganda and Kenya and the Ugandan and Pan African Parliament.
(PhD) is a Senior Lecturer and researcher at the Unit of Human Geography, Department of Economics and Society, University of Gothenburg in Sweden, working in Development Studies and Human Geography since the late 1980s. Her research interests focus on gendered access to and control over livelihood resources, and collective strategies for resource mobilization. Since 2002, she has worked with an academic capacity-building programme in collaboration with the School of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University, Uganda under the auspices of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) programme.