This brief examines whether on-farm agricultural income in Uganda is adequate for farmers to contribute to a social insurance scheme. The evidence reveals that the total net income for agricultural year 2019/20 from crop and livestock on-farm enterprises was UGX 5.5 trillion. Banana farmers retained the highest income,…
This brief presents three (3) innovations that developing countries (i.e. Kenya, Costa Rica, Ghana, Cape Verde, Columbia and Philippines) have adopted to expand social insurance coverage to the highly informal agricultural sector. The first measure is to put in place collective insurance agreements between central social security funds…
The core aim of this briefing note is to answer the question, “Is sugarcane growing associated with household food insecurity – and perhaps even causes it?” The study relied mainly on primary data collected from the sugarcane-growing sub-regions of Buganda, Busoga and Bunyoro. Food security is measured using…
The study analyses the relationship between households’ participation in sugarcane production and food security in Uganda’s major producing subregions of Buganda, Busoga and Bunyoro. Using primary data collected from 1,771 households and group discussions, the study uses three different measures of food security: — Household Food Insecurity Access…
This Agricultural Finance Yearbook 2022, the twelfth edition in the series, offers in-depth analysis of the agricultural financing landscape in Uganda. It comprises 25 articles arranged in six chapters, underscoring ideas, products and innovations, processes, achievements, challenges, and possible policy options, moving forward. Chapter one explores existing policy…