Uganda: Implementing Marriage and divorce bill will be a tough call
This bill touches the nerve center of our cultural, societal, traditional and religious norms. It is at the centre of who we are. It challenges us to reflect on aspects of our cultural belief psychology that seems to contradict edicts of bellicose modernity and waves of globalization.
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Organic Agriculture not GMOs remain key for Uganda’s Competitiveness
The Parliamentary Committee on Science and Technology is currently conducting public consultations on Bio-safety and Biotechnology bill 2012 and is expected to report back to the House in 48 days. The bill is contentious because, in current form, it will pave way for mass introduction of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in Uganda – under the pretext of saving Uganda from food insecurity!
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Foreign aid trap and National Farmers Federation’s struggle for legitimacy
The Uganda National Farmers Federation (UNFFE) was founded in January, 1992 by farmers throughout Uganda in response to a need for better services for and exchanges between the farming communities that comprises over 70% of Uganda’s population.
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With Technology and Elite capture – Are Cooperatives Relevant today?
With over 10,400,000 citizens connected to mobile phones (according to International Communication Union) over 5,000,000 browsing internet daily and millions tuning into more than 228 fm radio stations broadcasting in local languages – Do we still need the kind of cooperatives that operated in 1970’s and 1980s to connect farmers and small businesses to markets?
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FAO – Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition discussion. My response to the latest question.
Question: If you were designing an agricultural investment programme, what are the top 5 things you would do to maximize its impact on nutrition?
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Bumpy agriculture journey in Uganda: Why the Sector is limping and where do we want to be?
For the past eight years, I have been on a learning journey – for the large part dedicated to farming and agricultural systems in Uganda. Of course, I was born and raised in a farmer’ household. I therefore tend to think that this naturalized me into farmers’ daily realities.
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Can we create jobs? Budget Priorities and Job creation in a competitive Regional Market
Uganda’s National Budget has been presented and explained as a statement of projected revenues and expenditure. The larger section of the citizenry understand it as a ritual of government to announce the budget every June of every year.
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It’s Arithmetic! Thoughts on reclaiming Uganda’s agricultural extension services.
Everything is Maths. Everything is numbers. Because math is logic. Even music is maths, for mathematics is the basis of sound. Indeed all nature consists of harmony arising out of numbers. Today, I will use numbers to illuminate the tragedy of agricultural extension services in Uganda.
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Open Government: Why Citizens Should Monitor Uganda’s Policy Commitments
On 20thSeptember in New York President Barack Obama launched the Open Government Partnership (OGP, see www.opengovpartnership.org), a powerful, new effort that seeks to make governments more open to their citizens. Not anyone can join; eligible countries need to meet a minimum set of transparency criteria.
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