East Africa’s Food Basket: Balancing Import Substitution and Regionalism

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 By Christopher Burke, WMC Africa Government support for the promotion of agriculture in the 2020/21 budget with the scrapping of VAT on agricultural equipment and processed milk are welcome steps in the right direction; however, care is required in the utilization of import duties to pursue import substitution associated with agricultural products.  Uganda is a relatively small econ