Examines and evaluates development policies or interventions intended to promote Africa's graduation from poverty and vulnerability to prosperity and security, using Uganda's experience as basis for generalisation of critical challenges and lessons. Figs, tables, notes, bib, index, x, 204pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN [UGANDA] PUBLISHERS, 9970022482

Using interviews with the elders of Kikole, a Ugandan community, the author looks at the livelihoods of rural elders in East Africa. BNS, 272pp, UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS, 075463180X

Comprehensive survey of the various strategies for managing and developing increased and sustainable crop production. BNS, col ill, 594pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

Addresses the challenges and prospects of managing and developing Uganda's livestock and fisheries resources. BNS, 401pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN.

Uganda’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) government has used credit as one of the policy strategies to reduce poverty levels. This study examines the effectiveness of that policy. It traces the ascendance to power of NRM in 1986, when the country was in crisis, devastated by years of political turmoil and economic mismanagement; and illustrates how the NRM, with the assistance of the World Bank and the IMF, embarked on a multi-pronged strategy to reconstruct the economy and improve living conditions. Issues explored are the extent to which the sweeping reforms impacted on the welfare of the rural poor; the extent to which credit programmes have economically empowered the rural poor; and further examines whether credit initiatives created economic sustainability for the beneficiaries. 328pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

Examines the role of cultural and social capital in the efforts of individuals, communities and other networks to overcome poverty and achieve a sustainable way of life. Moving beyond the familiar poverty indicators as from a conventional development-economics perspective, argues that culture plays a major role in development, as the psychological attitudes that determine human behaviour and interaction are usually rooted in the cultural environment. 179pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

Agricultural extensions systems were introduced in Uganda by the colonial administration, in the early twentieth century. It has been a key part of its agricultural development strategy, albeit with changes and innovations in approaches, institutional arrangements, methods, and strategies. There has been a dearth documented information on the subject, and this study now provides a systematic documentation and analysis of these changes and innovations, with a view to drawing lessons to inform theory and practice, and to avoid repetition of past mistakes. The book is organised in three parts: Uganda's Experiences with a Privatised contract Farmer-owned Extension Approach; Innovative Extension Methodologies; and Training and Capacity Development for Innovation and Reform in Agricultural Extension. 190pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

The realities of the status of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Africa are frequently misunderstood, misrepresented and generally susceptible to that cliche about Africa's 'backwardness'. This book attempts to document the actual state of affairs in Uganda, one of the first African countries to liberalise the communications sector, which led to an explosion in access to mobile phones, the Internet and other advanced technologies. 103pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

Results of research, carried out among banana-farming households in the districts of Masaka and Kabarole in Uganda, focused on the identification of critical factors in the development of relevant policies for HIV/AIDS-affected agriculture-based households or those that are at risk. While in the overwhelming majority of the affected cases the effects of AIDS are negative and lead to increased impoverishment and vulnerability, for some households HIV/AIDS-related effects are manageable, concluding that a households socio-economic status and demographic characteristics influence the magnitude of HIV/AIDS-related impacts experienced and capacity to cope. 372pp, NETHERLANDS. WAGENINGEN ACADEMIC PRESS.

An account of post-colonial social and economic change among pastoral peoples of Uganda in response to development initiatives promoted by the government. It examines the tension between local production systems and development initiatives. In the Ankole region policy has focused on the commercialisation of livestock production through the introduction of cattle ranching. Lack of success is due in part to political and economic crises, but also to a failure to understand the special problems faced by different groups of cattle keepers. Maps, tables, notes, bib, index, 192pp. NETHERLANDS. INTERNATIONAL BOOKS.

Untreated mental illnesses impair the social and economic lives of affected individuals significantly. In the eyes of the public in Uganda any individual who suffers from mental illness is not expected to regain his/her normal senses and return to normality. Contrary to this widely held belief, however, people have adequately recovered from severe mental illness and regained good productive lives after receiving proper treatment. This book has been written to foster quality health care and a good quality of life for the mentally ill in Uganda. 256pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS.

This study looks at the impact of liberalisation on the development and direction of the milk industry in Uganda. More widely, the study considers the economics and politics of the milk sub-sector and the relative influences of the state and private sectors on the industry. Finally, it analyses the institutional rigidities that are impeding the progress of the industry and its contribution to development in the southwest of the country. BNS, 136pp, UGANDA. FOUNTAIN PUBLISHERS. 9970024949

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