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Enthusiasm of Actors Within the Groundnut Value Chain Sharing Impact Stories in Uganda

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11606/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_4
doi:10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_4
 
Title Enthusiasm of Actors Within the Groundnut Value Chain Sharing Impact Stories in Uganda
 
Creator Akpo, E
Ojiewo, C O
Omoigui, L O
Rubyogo, J C
Varshney, R K
 
Subject Smallholder Farmers
Genetics and Genomics
Legume Crops
Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Description The role of women in traditional African homes is often considered subordinate
than that of men. Women in most cases are expected to look after the household and
the children and ensure food security while men, on the other hand, are tasked with
ensuring financial security. In Uganda, women contribute to 53% agricultural labor
force; this is because they have limited access to land and thus resort to offering
labor to farm owners. Tropical Legumes projects has strived to empower women
through creating awareness and sensitizations to women groups in various parts of
the country (Fig. 4.1).
Purlonyo Women Group is among farmer groups that have benefited from the
TL projects. Rather than staying at home and waiting to be financially supported,
the women have settled on self-empowerment. Ms. Leonora Okidi founded Purlonyo
Women Group with an aim of inspiring women to uplift themselves.
The group consists of 35 groundnut producers from Pader District, nine are men
despite being a women group. Before joining the Tropical Legumes projects the
group produced old groundnut varieties solely for household consumption.
 
Publisher Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd
 
Date 2020
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11606/1/10.1007_978-981-15-0845-5_4.pdf
Akpo, E and Ojiewo, C O and Omoigui, L O and Rubyogo, J C and Varshney, R K (2020) Enthusiasm of Actors Within the Groundnut Value Chain Sharing Impact Stories in Uganda. In: Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore, pp. 57-64. ISBN 978-981-15-0844-8