Micro and meso-level issues affecting potato production and marketing in the tropical highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa: The known and the unknowns
This study uses ecological system theory to examine the micro and meso level factors that affect and are affected potato production in Sub-Sahara Africa. It focuses on gender, environmental factors, food security. The data and information used were collected using both qualitative and quantitative m...
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| author | Okello, J.J. Kwikiriza, N. Kakuhenzire, R. Parker, M. Schulte-Geldermann, Elmar Pambo, K.O. |
| author_browse | Kakuhenzire, R. Kwikiriza, N. Okello, J.J. Pambo, K.O. Parker, M. Schulte-Geldermann, Elmar |
| author_facet | Okello, J.J. Kwikiriza, N. Kakuhenzire, R. Parker, M. Schulte-Geldermann, Elmar Pambo, K.O. |
| author_sort | Okello, J.J. |
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| description | This study uses ecological system theory to examine the micro and meso level factors that affect and are affected potato production in Sub-Sahara Africa. It focuses on gender, environmental factors, food security. The data and information used were collected using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The study finds that gender use within the households is changing. It also finds that dwindling land sizes and soil fertility are encouraging the migration potato plots to fragile margins while increased pest and disease pressure is encouraging greater reliance on pesticide -- resulting into increased incidences of pesticide poisoning, all of which have definite effects on the environment and sustainability of potato production and agriculture in general. It concludes that farm household (micro-level) decisions on potato production are driving and being driven by the environmental/ physical (meso) level ecology. The study discusses the implications of its findings for policy and sustainability of agriculture |
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| spelling | CGSpace726352025-11-06T14:02:02Z Micro and meso-level issues affecting potato production and marketing in the tropical highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa: The known and the unknowns Okello, J.J. Kwikiriza, N. Kakuhenzire, R. Parker, M. Schulte-Geldermann, Elmar Pambo, K.O. potatoes production gender This study uses ecological system theory to examine the micro and meso level factors that affect and are affected potato production in Sub-Sahara Africa. It focuses on gender, environmental factors, food security. The data and information used were collected using both qualitative and quantitative methods. The study finds that gender use within the households is changing. It also finds that dwindling land sizes and soil fertility are encouraging the migration potato plots to fragile margins while increased pest and disease pressure is encouraging greater reliance on pesticide -- resulting into increased incidences of pesticide poisoning, all of which have definite effects on the environment and sustainability of potato production and agriculture in general. It concludes that farm household (micro-level) decisions on potato production are driving and being driven by the environmental/ physical (meso) level ecology. The study discusses the implications of its findings for policy and sustainability of agriculture 2015 2016-03-15T20:04:15Z 2016-03-15T20:04:15Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/72635 en Open Access application/pdf Okello, J.; Kwikiriza, N.; Kakuhenzire, R.; Parker, M.; Schulte-Geldermann, E.; Pambo, K. 2015. Micro and meso-level issues affecting potato production and marketing in the tropical highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa: The known and the unknowns. Annual Meeting of The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. San Francisco (USA). 26-28 Jul 2015. 29 p |
| spellingShingle | potatoes production gender Okello, J.J. Kwikiriza, N. Kakuhenzire, R. Parker, M. Schulte-Geldermann, Elmar Pambo, K.O. Micro and meso-level issues affecting potato production and marketing in the tropical highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa: The known and the unknowns |
| title | Micro and meso-level issues affecting potato production and marketing in the tropical highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa: The known and the unknowns |
| title_full | Micro and meso-level issues affecting potato production and marketing in the tropical highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa: The known and the unknowns |
| title_fullStr | Micro and meso-level issues affecting potato production and marketing in the tropical highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa: The known and the unknowns |
| title_full_unstemmed | Micro and meso-level issues affecting potato production and marketing in the tropical highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa: The known and the unknowns |
| title_short | Micro and meso-level issues affecting potato production and marketing in the tropical highlands of Sub-Saharan Africa: The known and the unknowns |
| title_sort | micro and meso level issues affecting potato production and marketing in the tropical highlands of sub saharan africa the known and the unknowns |
| topic | potatoes production gender |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/72635 |
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