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The Case of Uganda

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Agricultural Supply Chains, Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

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In this chapter we analyze food crops (cassava, maize, millet and sorghum), a cash crop (coffee) and livestock in Uganda. Next section describes the household survey data. The institutional arrangements for the different crops are briefly presented in Sect. 7.2. Sections 7.3 and 7.4 present the farmgate price simulation results from the model and the household welfare simulations.

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  1. University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève, Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland

    Nicolas Depetris Chauvin

  2. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

    Guido Porto

  3. African Center for Economic Transformation, Accra, Ghana

    Francis Mulangu

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Depetris Chauvin, N., Porto, G., Mulangu, F. (2017). The Case of Uganda. In: Agricultural Supply Chains, Growth and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53858-6_7

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