Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Uganda
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 participatio...
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| author | Mdege, N. Mayanja, S. Mudege, Netsayi N. |
| author_browse | Mayanja, S. Mdege, N. Mudege, Netsayi N. |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1202972025-07-23T18:05:32Z Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Uganda Mdege, N. Mayanja, S. Mudege, Netsayi N. agricultural value chains small-scale farming post-conflict settings africa south of sahara gender 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. 2022-10-03 2022-07-25T21:17:58Z 2022-07-25T21:17:58Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120297 en Open Access Informa UK Limited Mdege, N.; Mayanja, S.; Mudege, N. N. 2022. Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Uganda. Third World Quarterly. ISSN 0143-6597. 20 p. |
| spellingShingle | agricultural value chains small-scale farming post-conflict settings africa south of sahara gender Mdege, N. Mayanja, S. Mudege, Netsayi N. Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Uganda |
| title | Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Uganda |
| title_full | Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Uganda |
| title_fullStr | Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Uganda |
| title_full_unstemmed | Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Uganda |
| title_short | Youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness: the case of Northern Uganda |
| title_sort | youth engagement in sweetpotato production and agribusiness the case of northern uganda |
| topic | agricultural value chains small-scale farming post-conflict settings africa south of sahara gender |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/120297 |
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