Browsing by Author "Kalibwani, Rebecca Mutebi"

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    Factors Influencing Access of Government Agricultural Extension Services Among Banana Farmers in Lyantonde District, Uganda
    (East African Nature and Science Organization, 2024-08-25) Kyarisiima, Mary; Kalibwani, Rebecca Mutebi; Tumusiime, Benard
    In Uganda, the agriculture extension program has been the main conduit for disseminating information on farm technologies, support rural adult learning, and assist farmers in developing their farm technical and managerial skills. It is expected that extension programs will help increase farm productivity, farm revenue, reduce poverty and minimize food insecurity. In this study, we estimate the effects of extension services on farm income with reference to Government Agricultural Extension Services (GAES) delivered by Ministry of Agriculture, animal husbandry and fisheries (MAAIF). The study used cross-section research design to randomly select and collect data from 165 banana farmers from Lyantonde subcounty. The collected data was entered and later analyzed using R software version 4.4.0. The results reveal that more than half of the banana farmers (58.2%) were accessing government agricultural extension services (GAESs), significantly higher than those not having access. Using binary logistic regression model, only two factors; - access to agricultural credit (p = 0.006) and membership to a farmer association (p<0.001) were found to significantly affect farmers’ access to GAES. The study findings point the critical role of farmer associations as well as access to agricultural credit to banana farmers in agricultural extension. It is, therefore, recommended that formation of farmer association be given a top priority as it helps in reducing the extension-to-farmer ratio for efficient and effective agricultural extension service delivery
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    Multi-stakeholder Partner Value Chain Development A case of the Organic Pineapple in Ntungamo district, Western Uganda
    (Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, 2018) Kalibwani, Rebecca Mutebi; Twebaze, Jennifer; Kamugisha, Rick; Kakuru, Medard; Sabiiti, Moses; Kugonza, Irene; Tenywa, Moses; Nyamwaro, Sospeter
    The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that agricultural commodity value chain development using multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) can fast-track improvement in the livelihoods of rural farming households. With the view that such partnerships can raise farmers’ incomes, the study uses the case of the organic pineapple (OP) value chain in Ntungamo, Western Uganda, to understand the governance features that hold the value chain partners together, to analyse the costs and margins to the participating farmers, to identify opportunities for demand-driven upgrading of the farmers’ skills and knowledge, and the role that partnerships play in such upgrading.