Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile: The challenge of modernising smallholder agriculture in East Africa Keynote address by Mr Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Governor of the Bank of Uganda, at the International Symposium on Agricultural Developments in the EAC Partner States, Kampala, 5 November 2013. * 1.
*  *  Introduction  All the countries of East Africa share the long term vision of transforming the structure of their economies to attain middle income status and eradicate mass poverty. Structural transformation, which is the essence of economic development, will not be achieved without the modernisation of the agricultural sector.