Makerere University, Uganda: Recent submissions
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Aspects of food shortages in Tanganyika (1925-45)
(1966-12)The problem of food hunger and shortage has attracted the attention of scholars from a number of different disciplines. Members of the medical profession are interested in the problem largely because of its direct physiological ... -
Women's careers in low income areas as indicators of country and town dynamics
(1972-09)A great deal of research and comments have been made about African urban male migrants who leave the villages because of economic insecurities, which most often include unemployment, under employment and under productiveness ... -
The teaching and research of industrial sociology in an African University: problems and prospects.
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Adolescent fertility and sexuality in Uganda: determinants, consequences and management
(Makerere University, 1987-08-08)In Uganda, adolescents constitute almost half of the total population and being of reproductive age, they contribute more to fertility than any other categories of persons. Moreover, adolescents have unique problems related ... -
Ethnic pluralism and political centralisation: the basis of political conflict in Uganda
(1987-09)The paper contends that the struggle for participation and control of political power is at the centre, is one of the major causes of political conflict in this country. In the end, the paper advocates for the decentralization ... -
Gender and poverty: the agriculture sector programme support in Uganda.
(1999)At the time of writings, Uganda was the only country in Africa with an established Ministry of Gender. The country has an operational National Gender Policy to facilitate the process of mainstreaming gender concerns in the ... -
Individualization of common wetlands in Uganda and the role of changing economic opportunities: a case study of Igogero Wetland, Iganga District
(1996-03)Issues of ownership and management of communally used natural resources are becoming a growing concern in East Africa. Many Countries are in the process of analyzing and formulating policies in regard to tenure and sustainable ... -
Ethnicity and ethnic conflict in the great lakes region.
(2000-07)This paper explains the ethnicity and ethnic conflicts in the Great Lakes region in the context of the historical backgrounds of the region. It attempts to unearth the issue from its historical, sociological, cultural and ... -
Agricultural change: compulsion in the implementation agricultural policies: a case study from Iringa
(1985)In order to clarify the content of the tragic case discussed in this paper, background Sections on selected characteristics of the district are given. The paper discusses the evolution of farming systems in Ismani Division- ... -
The agrarian sector and economic development in Tanzania.
(1984-02)Part 1of this paper summarises land tenure systems which emerged after independence. Part II examines the objectives and constraints facing rural development in Tanzania. Part III reviews the agrarian structure in Tanzania ... -
An analysis of the demand for sugar in East Africa
(1964-11-05)This EDRP paper is the basis for one of the chapters in a monograph dealing with some problems in the development of the sugar industry in East Africa. The purpose of this paper is to attempt to measure the effects of ... -
Understanding benefactor and beneficiary: protest stories in Nakivale Camp.
(2000)I will begin with a brief narrative of the protest and a discussion of my approach; more detailed explication of the claims advanced by refugees and officials in the protests will follow. This explication will highlight ... -
War and the debt burden in the Great Lakes region
(2000-07)The task of this paper is to advance the view that the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs) of Great Lakes Region would do better to endeavor and resolve political disharmony using peacemaking strategies rather than ... -
Making sense of the Uganda-Rwanda armed conflict in the Democractic Republic of Congo (DRC)
(2001)At the time Rwanda and Uganda helped President Laurent Kabila come to power in the DRC (then Zaire) in May 1997, any critical observer would have anticipated that Uganda and Rwanda had become formidable allies. And no one, ... -
Implementation of curriculum reform and its implications: The case of Kenya.
(2005)Education is intimately associated with social and economic and political development in any nation. In Kenya's pre-independence education was provided within the context of social and economic organization. Colonial ... -
Protecting the rights of rural women
(1991-08)Uganda is a state whose various tribes and communities subscribe to the principles of 'patriarchal societies' in whose structure man is the subject, boys are the issue and all members of the female sex are still referred ... -
Political generations in Bukoba :1890-1939.
(1940)What theoretical framework I have been able to salvage is, as the title of my paper suggests, largely evolutionary. The "political generations" which I wish to distinguish in the various stages of colonial rule are those ... -
The Pre-colonial Social Formation among the Bakenhe Fishing Community of Lake Kyoga region of Uganda, 1800- 1894.
(1996)This paper, therefore, set s out to bridge this gap by specifically looking at the pre colonial social formations of the Bakenhe fishing community of Lake Kyoga Re0i on, between 1800 and 1900. In essence this is a preliminary? ... -
Modern fisheries and its impact on access to and common property management
(1996)Studies on Lake Victoria Fisheries are increasingly getting more diversified in scope and themes. Unlike in the past when the body literature available were products of endeavors by physical scientists concerned with fish ... -
Food Systems Under Stress (FSUS) Project. Country Profile: Zambia
(1994-03)This paper is one in a series of five from participating countries in the Food Systems Under Stress (FSUS) programme, the initial phase of which began in May, 1993. Other participating countries in this programme are ...