Enhancing Innovation in the Ugandan Agri-Food Sector: Robusta Coffee Planting Material & Tropical Fruit Processing

Travis Lybbert, Gracious Diiro, Dick Kawooya and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent

No 42, WIPO Economic Research Working Papers from World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division

Abstract: Uganda's innovation performance in recent years has consistently outpaced other low-income and Sub-Saharan African countries. Though encouraging, this nascent progress will only benefit the broader Ugandan population if policy makers address specific constraints in the innovation systems of the critical agri-food sector, which is hampered by low productivity and profitability. In this report, we explore these constraints using an agricultural value chains framework with particular focus on the Robusta Coffee Planting Material Pipeline and tropical fruit processing.

Keywords: Innovation; Intellectual Property; Agriculture; Coffee; Tropical Fruit; Uganda (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 E22 H25 O3 Q16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-04
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