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Browsing Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences by Author "Ahaibwe, Gemma"

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    Coffee Production a Golden Opportunity for Rural Youth Employment
    (Economic Policy Research Centre, 2013) Mbowa, Swaibu; Ahaibwe, Gemma; Mayanja, Musa Lwanga
    This brief provides evidence on the status-quo in the coffee value chain and reveals that over 68 percent of profit margins along the international raw coffee value chain are retained at the farm level – and therefore opportunities for youth employment in the coffee value chain lies at the production level. Nevertheless the challenge remains the limited ability for the youth to actively participate in the primary coffee production. The upstream coffee production is a domain of households headed by the persons in the prime aged 31 years and above, seemingly with secure access to land - a key prerequisite given that coffee is a perennial crop. Therefore the concept of a new generation of young coffee farmers becomes more distant if issues regarding to access to land are not addressed.
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    Why Persistent Youth Unemployment Amidst a Growing Economy in Uganda
    (Economic Policy Research Centre, 2013) Mbowa, Swaibu; Lwanga Mayanja, Musa; Ahaibwe, Gemma
    This brief is extracted from a report by Mbowa et al (2013)1 and illustrates the big fact that benefits of a growing economy are accruing to a relatively small proportion of population because growth in the services and industrial sector is not yielding commensurate jobs for the bulging youthful population. Overtime the structure of Uganda’s economy has changed with services and industry overtaking agriculture in terms of sectorial contribution to GDP. However, despite this change in structure, agriculture still employs the largest proportion of the working force2. This implies that the largest share of the labour force (over 60 percent) contributes less than 25 percent to GDP. In the short to medium term agriculture will remain the major source of employment for the majority of the youth. This call for increasing agriculture productivity along the entire agriculture value chain.