Enhancing Women Entrepreneurship: Agriculture in Northern Uganda

This research investigates the progress of the Ugandan Agribusiness Initiative Trust in enhancing women's participation in agricultural entrepreneurship, particularly in Northern Uganda. It focuses on the experiences of educating female farmers and observations related to entrepreneurship activities. With Uganda being dominantly an agricultural country, small-scale farmers play a crucial role in food production. Women lead in agricultural production, but face challenges like limited land ownership. Initiatives such as gender and entrepreneurship training, along with programs like the Uganda Women’s entrepreneurship program, aim to empower women through education and group projects in agriculture. This report references key sources to support its analysis of women's involvement in Ugandan agriculture and entrepreneurship.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAINING FOR WOMEN TO ENHANCE
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN UGANDA
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Executive Summary
Introduction
The purpose of this research work is investigate the progress that has been made by the
program began and initiated by Ugandan Agribusiness Initiative Trust. The mandate of this
organization is to enhance the participation of women in entrepreneurship training in relation
to agriculture in the country, specifically those coming from the northern part of the country.
Additional, the paper focuses more on the experiences of offering education for female
farmers and looking at specific observations in connection with entrepreneurship activities.
Uganda is dominantly an agricultural country where most people depend on agricultural
products (Central Intelligence Agency, 2013). However, it is believed that the small-scale
farmers provide part of the country’s food in terms of commercial and domestic consumption.
Several studies have found out that women have taken a lead in the agricultural sector,
specifically at the production level, which almost 80% of female farmers practice agricultural
farming on the land, and only around 7% of them are, owners of some pieces of land (Denzin
and Lincoln, 2011).
Women and Entrepreneurship Development
However, a number of factors have made women to be dominance in agricultural farming in
northern Uganda. These factors include local movement of men from their native setup to
urban places as they look for formal jobs, security, among others. These movements leave
women in their rural homes and they become those who are responsible for agriculture at the
production level. Due to the very important role played by women in agriculture, we have
noticed the interests of concerned parties in addressing the consequences that they face
(Schoorlemmer, 2007). In making sure that women are adequately informed on the

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importance of farming, they encourage them through gender and entrepreneurship training,
which is a program that is offered free to women. In addition, there is also female
entrepreneurship, economic development, and education programs that are intended to
enlighten the women on entrepreneurship and economic development that may be brought
about by venturing into agriculture (Dent, 2007). These initiatives have also brought the birth
of others such as the Uganda Women’s entrepreneurship program, which enables the women
to work in groups and engage in many projects that are related to agricultural activities.

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References
Central Intelligence Agency. (2013). “Economy: Uganda”, available at:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ug.html (accessed
20 April 2013).
Schoorlemmer, H. (2007). Exploring the Significance of Entrepreneurship
in Agriculture, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Frick.
Dent, V.F. (2007). “Local economic development in Uganda and the connection
to rural community libraries and literacy”, New Library World, Vol. 108 Nos 5/6, pp.
203-217.
Denzin, N.K. and Lincoln, Y.S. (2011). “Introduction: the discipline and practice
of qualitative research”, in Denzin, N.K. and Lincoln, Y.S. (Eds), The SAGE
Handbook of Qualitative Research, 4th ed., Sage Publication, London