Cultivating success in Uganda : Kigezi farmers & colonial policies / Grace Carswell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carswell, Grace.

Contributor:

British Institute in Eastern Africa.

Series:

Eastern African studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture and state--Uganda--Kigezi.

Agriculture and state.

Uganda--Kigezi.

Physical Description:

xii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : The British Institute in Eastern Africa ; Oxford : James Currey ; Kampala : Fountain Publishers ; Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Today's development agenda is ever more focused on results. This book raises questions about how results and outcomes are evaluated, and reflects on notions of 'success' in colonial and contemporary development policy. The first part of the book examines colonial attempts in Kigezi, in southwestern Uganda, to introduce 'cash crops', soil conservation practices, a resettlement scheme, and land tenure reforms. Throughout these chapters the dominant theme concerns the enduring character of smallholder farming conducted in the context of wider economic possibilities.

The second part of the book explores broader changes in Kigezi, with two restudies of colonial research. Following the lead of groundbreaking studies by Tiffen, Fairhead and Leach, this case study illustrates that the usual assumptions about population pressure and environmental change need to be questioned. It pushes this debate forward, exploring how the political economy of land and labour has been transformed alongside a more positive environmental story.

Contents:

Colonialism, development and the environment

2 Colonial Encounters with Kigezi Agriculture: Food Crops & Cash Crops 24

Kigezi: production and trade

Formulation of Uganda's colonial agricultural policy

Colonial attempts to introduce cash crops

Why did cash crops fail?

Food production and marketing

3 Soil Conservation in Kigezi 49

Indigenous methods of soil conservation and early colonial encounters

Development of colonial policy to 1953

Soil conservation measures at district level: The Purseglove era (1944-53)

Reassessment in the 1950s

East African comparisons

4 Land Tenure in Kigezi 86

Colonial encounters with land tenure

'Native customary tenure': the view of colonial officials

What 'customary land tenure' meant for the people of Kigezi

5 Land Reform Policies & Chiefly Authority 115

Land reform policies

Chiefly authority over land

6 Changes in the Agricultural System 151

Population and environment narratives

Two land use surveys, 1945 and 1996

Land use change over fifty years

Questions raised, comparisons and conclusions

7 Livelihoods, Labouring & Differentiation 173

Livelihood diversification

Migration

Differentiation

Livelihoods and well-being.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781847016010

1847016014

1847016006

9780821417799

0821417797

0821417800

9780821417805

9789970026821

9970026828

9781847016003

OCLC:

77013153