Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorMdege, Norita
dc.contributor.authorMayanja, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorMudege, Netsayi Noris
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-16T10:22:46Z
dc.date.available2023-01-16T10:22:46Z
dc.date.issued2022-10
dc.description.abstractAbstract Using qualitative data collected in Gulu and Omoro districts, Northern Uganda, this paper discusses factors influencing youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness in a post-conflict environment. The purpose is to understand the factors in order to promote young people’s participation in sweetpotato and other agricultural value chains. Thirteen young women and eleven young men were interviewed in individual in-depth interviews. Additionally, 74 young women and 85 young men participated in 16 sex-disaggregated focus group discussions. Our study identifies that rural youth’s participation in sweetpotato production and agribusiness is a product of the intersection of broader community/national context, individual circumstances (age, gender, marital status, education and social class), and individual and collective agency. Our proposed strategies to encourage youth participation in the agricultural value chain consider young people’s intersectional identities and address national- and community-level issues such as access to knowledge and information, land, markets and gendered power hierarchies.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMdege, Norita, Sarah Mayanja, and Netsayi Noris Mudege. 'Youth Engagement in Sweetpotato Production and Agribusiness: The Case of Northern Uganda', Third World Quarterly, vol. 43/no. 10, (2022), pp. 2430-2449.en_US
dc.identifier.issnEISSN 1360-2241
dc.identifier.issn0143-6597
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/6953
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.subjectYoung men, young women, agricultural value chain, small-scale farming, post-conflict, Sub-Saharan Africaen_US
dc.titleYouth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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