Investment and employment in agriculture and the rural sector in Uganda, IPRA Working Paper 1

This paper provides a situation analysis of the current investment and employment in agriculture and rural Uganda aimed at providing appropriate policy recommendations for increased and sustained economic development in the rural sector.  It assesses the employment implications of Uganda’s economic growth and investments as a basis for defining operational national action programs, and interventions for poverty reduction. It finds that, despite effort to reduce policy induced distortions in agriculture under the Economic Recovery and Structural Adjustment Programmes (ERSAP) of the late 1980s and early 1990s, overall investment in agriculture has remained very low due to, among other factors, absence of incentive framework for potential rural investors, poor access to land, low productivity and low return to factors of production, lack of capital, particularly, at the farm level, poor access to markets and poor infrastructure, and effects of HIV/AIDS