ABSTRACT
This chapter improves peoples understanding of the dynamics underlying youth employment and entrepreneurship strategies in rural Uganda. It explores the importance of agricultural and rural nonfarm activities for youth entrepreneurial strategies in an agricultural area where the relative proximity to urban areas offers a range of opportunities for both types of economic activities. The chapter draws on data from the Rural Youth Entrepreneurship (RYE) study. The activities and sectors in which the young people are engaged, and the challenges and opportunities for rural entrepreneurship, are analysed highlighting the similarities and differences between the two villages and between the economic activities of the old and the young. The chapter indicates that access to agricultural land is a key factor for business establishment and the lack of farmland is, therefore, one of the drivers of rural urban migration in Uganda, and draws on data from two studies, both of which were conducted in Butamira and Kangulumira.
