With Technology and Elite capture – Are Cooperatives Relevant today?
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
by Agency AFT
With over 10,400,000 citizens connected to mobile phones (according to International Communication Union) over 5,000,000 browsing internet daily and millions tuning into more than 228 fm radio stations broadcasting in local languages – Do we still need the kind of cooperatives that operated in 1970’s and 1980s to connect farmers and small businesses to markets?
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Why the UPDF should be backed to boost agricultural modernization.
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
by Agency AFT
For the past eight years, I have been on a learning journey – for the large part dedicated to farming and agricultural systems in Uganda. Of course, I was born and raised in a farmer’ household. I therefore tend to think that this naturalized me into farmers’ daily realities.
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