Are you A POLICY MAKER OR COMPANY OIL IN UGANDA? FARMERS HAVE A MESSAGE FOR YOU

  FARMERS MESSAGE to Policy Makers and Oil Companies

2013/2014 Budget: Bigger pie of Agriculture sector budget should focus on DSIP and Local Governments

Although the agriculture sector has a Development Strategy and Investment Plan (DSIP), its implementation has been hampered by inadequate funding and poor linkage between Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) headquarters and Local Governments (LGs). For instance, in Financial Year 2012/13 the sector received Shs 379.04 billion compared to Shs 559.6 billion projected

GMO DEBATE IN UGANDA: What I told Havard’s Prof. Calestous Juma

Dear Prof. Calestous, I missed your vehement presentation in Kampala- I was away in Rukungiri (South Western Uganda) picking (harvesting) purely organic grown coffee. I however – thanks to technology followed on Facebook and Twitter. My friend Sarah Bireete, a Kampala based lawyer was feeding me in. You see, in spite of adjuncts of Climate

How well do we understand the agro chemicals that we use?

http://www.agencyft.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Agro-chemicals-article1.pdf

Soil fertility; a crucial code toward a smiling farmer

http://www.agencyft.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Soil-fertility-a-crucial-code-toward-a-smiling-farmer1.pdf

RADIO ONE -SPECTRUM – DEBATES: Has the Agriculture sector been given the due attention it deserves?

My debate with Hon. Lydia Wanyoto – Watch the show via this Link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MgOzbVrBIY

Small holder farmers agency in National and Regional Policies: Opportunities and challenges

Open Letter to Hon. Paula Turyahikayo on GMO bill

I am writing to you to express deepest concern regarding the Biosafety and Biotechnology Bill 2012, which is currently under discussion in the Parliamentary Committee on Science and Technology. I want to urge you to vote against this bill, because it will harm many family farmers in Rubabo and Uganda as a whole.

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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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Why Think Tanks are key to transforming Uganda to First World

Few months ago Uganda launched 2040 Vision. The document is imaginative but weak on benchmark drivers to achieving an integrated first world economy by 2040. For example, the role of knowledge is not clearly articulated. In all developed nations on earth, Think tanks are bedrocks of knowledge agenda.

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On Farmers – The Agency Creed

At The Agency for Transformation (www.agencyft.org) we consider farms as (small) enterprises, farmers as entrepreneurs and their organizations as business organizations.

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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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STOP GMOs in Uganda – Agency in the News – African Executive

http://www.africanexecutive.com/modules/magazine/articles.php?article=7092&magazine=429

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My discussions with Private Sector Foundation on how we can we enhance the competitiveness of Uganda to fully benefit all round trade

View via this link – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceKD0yE2PFE

RAIO ONE -SPECTRUM – DEBATES: Has the Agriculture sector been given the due attention it deserves?

My debate with Hon. Lydia Wanyoto – Watch the show via this Link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MgOzbVrBIY

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The Soul of Corruption fight in Uganda: A balanced campaign for laws and morals is Key

Instead of reaching out to each other, we are stealing from each other. What a paradox! What is happening to value systems of this great land? On Monday 3rdDecember 2012, The New Vision cover page headlines can shock a visitor to death, but are only telling for a resident –for corruption stories are sadly becoming a way of life in this Country.

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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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What is killing Uganda’s agricultural sector?

See Link- http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/636334-what-is-killing-uganda-s-agricultural-sector.html

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Transforming Agriculture in Uganda- 9 points for action

See link- http://pubs.iied.org/G03363.html

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