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Oil palm intercropping in Uganda – an assessment of farmer practices and suggestion of alternatives

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Title Oil palm intercropping in Uganda – an assessment of farmer practices and suggestion of alternatives
 
Creator Namanji, S.
Ssekyewa, C.
Slingerland, Maja
 
Subject oil palms
farmers
economic impact
ecosystem services
livelihoods
agroforestry system
small scale farming
 
Description The expansion of oil palm in Uganda has undoubtedly brought economic benefits including jobs and import substitution among others, but these have been accompanied by negative social and environmental impacts. This brief is the latest in a series that has investigated these impacts, but is the first to propose new models of intercropping for Uganda. International experience shows that growing food or cash crops with oil palm in agroforestry systems can increase smallholder incomes, resilience and biodiversity and surveys show that farmers in Uganda are already experimenting and are ready to adopt intercropping on a wider scale.
 
Date 2020-10-01
2021-02-28T10:58:18Z
2021-02-28T10:58:18Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Namanji, S., Ssekyewa, C., Slingerland, M., 2020. Oil palm intercropping in Uganda – an assessment of farmer practices and suggestion of alternatives. Ecological Trends Alliance: Kampala, Uganda and Tropenbos International: Wageningen, the Netherlands
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/111618
https://www.tropenbos.org/file.php/2384/oil-palm-intercropping-in-uganda-final.pdf
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format 24p