2015
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1029233
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Food sovereignty as praxis: rethinking the food question in Uganda

Abstract: This article critically reflects upon conceptual and analytical questions that affect the practical implementation of food sovereignty in Uganda, a country often labelled as the potential breadbasket of Africa. It proposes to look at the integration of food and land-based social relations in the context of localised and historical-geographical specificities of livelihood practices among Acholi peasants in northern Uganda as a way to ground the concept. It argues that many of the organising principles at the co… Show more

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“…This has multiple intersecting causes; on the one hand, existing institutions and persistent ideas about what constitutes "modern" agriculture favor conventional technologies [16]. At the same time, the state's persistently neoliberal approach to development [63] results in slow progress on agricultural modernization, while paving the way for private actors whose primary interests do not necessarily lie in poverty reduction, smallholders' land rights, or practices that reduce the demand for agro-inputs [7]. But as Fuenfschilling and Truffer [78] remind transition scholars, all regimes have cracks and contradictions [78].…”
Section: Concluding Discussion: Agroecology As a Transformative Nichementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…This has multiple intersecting causes; on the one hand, existing institutions and persistent ideas about what constitutes "modern" agriculture favor conventional technologies [16]. At the same time, the state's persistently neoliberal approach to development [63] results in slow progress on agricultural modernization, while paving the way for private actors whose primary interests do not necessarily lie in poverty reduction, smallholders' land rights, or practices that reduce the demand for agro-inputs [7]. But as Fuenfschilling and Truffer [78] remind transition scholars, all regimes have cracks and contradictions [78].…”
Section: Concluding Discussion: Agroecology As a Transformative Nichementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although this is a rather blunt generalization, it does seem to apply here. Agriculture is in a state of transition, albeit not agroecological transition [7]. It is not only a question of what kind of agricultural modernization that is sought, but also how.…”
Section: Conditions For Agroecological Transition In Ugandamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Smallholders' commercialization, through their integration in generally export-oriented agroindustrial clusters or agropoles, has been one of the rallying cries of the Ugandan government as the political establishment identified the rise of global agricultural prices not as a threat to the social order but as an opportunity to be seized by expanding the production of export crops that are increasingly being demanded on the regional and global market for which Uganda enjoys a comparative advantage (Martiniello, 2015b). The Museveni's government has been a strong advocate of the biofuels bonanza (Zommers et al, 2012), in the belief that 'every sugar plantation is also an oil field' (Child 2009, p. 248-249).…”
Section: Land Grabs Contract Farming and The Sugar Frontiermentioning
confidence: 99%