How much do social networks help agrarian households?
There is growing evidence showing that social networks can bridge barriers in access to information and exchange of production factors, and provision of the often lacking public capital and insurance. In Uganda, like in many other developing countries, the state lacks adequate capacity to fully facilitate household access to markets for their farm produce. This is due to a combination of limited budgets and poor governance. In such circumstances, the people rely on their collective effort to overcome market failures and to take advantage of market opportunities. Therefore, social network capital and group activities play a huge role in shaping socioeconomic outcomes. Past studies have identified two broad concepts of social network capital. The first concept presents social network capital as vested in norms, trust and mutual affection and care for others that permits cooperation, facilitates collective action and therefore leads to the provision of some sort of public goods The sec