The Future of Smallholder Farming in Eastern Africa - Uganda ...

Figure 2. Changes in Sources of
Community Income
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
1981 2001
Wetland 6% 14%
Products
Labour 8% 7%
Brewing 5% 5%
Fishing 19% 17%
Livestock 23% 15%
T d 7% 9%
The perceived increase in trade is significant at the 5% level while the increase in income
contributed by wetland products is significant at 1% level. Sign rank test on other trend variables
was not significantly different than what might have been expected by chance. The fairly large
change in livestock incomes is affected by heavy reduction in livestock numbers in eight of the
districts due to insecurity and cattle raiding in the last 15 years, but proves not to be significant
because four of the districts further south have experienced increases in the contribution of
livestock to community incomes over the same period. Thus the trend for the lake catchment as a
whole is not clearly significant.
The PRA approach had one drawback, in that it did not allow for multiple income sources per
household, but rather revealed the overall trends for the community as a whole. This can be
compared to the household level data presented in the figures on the following page.