Eradicating extreme poverty among the rural poor in Uganda through poultry and cattle improvement programmes - A Review

Abstract

Uganda is still struggling with chronic poverty and malnutrition especially among women and children
despite the targeted efforts towards eradicating poverty by transforming subsistence agriculture to
intensive or commercial agriculture that have been in place for the last 13 years. The aim of this paper
was therefore to analyze the Republic of Uganda’s current strategy on eradication of extreme hunger
and poverty, identify the major constraints and suggest possible strategic interventions using
examples of poultry and cattle. The article has identified unemployment and persistent inflation as
major constraints to modernization of agriculture in Uganda and has offered development of small
holder poultry production, promotion of poultry crossbreeds, rehabilitation of community dip tanks and
promotion of dairy crossbreeds as strategic intervention areas to alleviate extreme hunger and poverty
in Uganda. In conclusion, the strategies used by the government of Uganda to fight poverty and hunger
did not favour the rural poor but have supported the rich and thus failed to cause a notable impact. It is
therefore recommended that adoption of the suggested intervention areas shall overcome the said
bottlenecks and accelerate eradication of hunger and poverty.