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Empowered Communities Tell Their Own Stories from Common Bean Production in Uganda

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11607/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_5
doi:10.1007/978-981-15-0845-5_5
 
Title Empowered Communities Tell Their Own Stories from Common Bean Production 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 Most smallholder farmers in Uganda often opt to farm the more popular crops
which include coffee, plantain, cassava, sweet potatoes, and maize. Smallholder
bean farming in Uganda is however overtaking the crops as farmers are seeing the
potential that bean farming possesses. Women in the traditional Ugandan setting are
considered as care givers and are tasked with ensuring food security. In Northern
Uganda for instance, women are not entitled to inheriting land. When it comes to
land sharing, women are only allowed to endorse the sharing. They are however
given a portion where they can plant crops they can utilize in the household. The
Tropical Legumes projects however strived to eradicate the stereotype that exists
with the position of women in production for commercial purposes
 
Publisher Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd
 
Date 2020
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11607/1/10.1007_978-981-15-0845-5_5.pdf
Akpo, E and Ojiewo, C O and Omoigui, L O and Rubyogo, J C and Varshney, R K (2020) Empowered Communities Tell Their Own Stories from Common Bean Production in Uganda. In: Sowing Legume Seeds, Reaping Cash. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore, pp. 65-75. ISBN 978-981-15-0844-8