Browsing by Author "Nalunga, Jane"

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    Agro-ecological system analysis (AESA) and farm planning
    (Organic eprints, 2016) Vaarst, Mette; Nalunga, Jane
    Organic agriculture is based on knowledge, insight and whole farm approaches. The farming system must work for each farmer family. Crop rotation cycles must be based on planning ahead, sometimes more than 2 years, so that different elements of the farm can work together. Intercropping must be based on knowledge on which crops support each other. The surrounding nature must be considered in the planning, e.g. rainfall, animals in the environment, where some of them can be predators and some can eat the crops. Herbs and weeds can prove to be valuable sources of nutrients, medicine or bio-pesticides.
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    Brief on the state of play of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Negotiations
    (Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) Uganda, 2020) Nalunga, Jane
    The quest for Africa’s Unity and formation of African Economic Community goes back to the independence struggles and the struggles for economic decolonization of Africa. These aspirations were translated into the the Lagos Plan of Action for the Economic Development of Africa (1980-2000) and the Abuja Treaty ; formation of the African Union and other initiatives like AIDA; BIAT (Boosting of Intra African Trade) ; PIDA. These processes are the precursors to the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). The strengthening of Regional Economic Communities like SADC; EAC; ECOWAS; AMU as building blocs to the AfCFTA is also rooted in Africa’s quest for structural transformation and the formation of an African Economic Community. The AfCFTA is also entrenched in the Agenda 2063 of the Africa we Want
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    The Potential of Ecological Farming in Delivering Social and Economic Development to Small Holder Farming Families (The Rwenzori Experience)
    (Proceedings of the Scientific Track, 2016-11-14) Tibasiima, Thaddeo; Dissing, Inge Lis; Dissing, Aage; Nalunga, Jane; Isgren, Ellinor; Masereka, Longino
    Since 2009 collaboration between Sustainable Agriculture Trainers’ Network (SATNET), National Organic Agriculture Movement of Uganda (NOGAMU) and Organic Denmark (OD) has seen the establishment of over 130 ecological Farmer Family Learning Groups (FFLGs) in the Rwenzori region. An FFLG is a group of 15-30 small holder farmers who get together motivated to improve their livelihoods through ecological farming alternatives made possible through learning and acting together practically on the farm. The practical learning is done in rotation such that every farmer’s farm is uniquely studied to provide for the variations from one farm to another. In every FFLG, learning is guided by a Community Process Facilitator (CPF). A CPF is a person knowledgeable and experienced in ecological farming and has innovative skills to steer the group through from one stage of development to another. A typical FFLG therefore is characterized by learning with and from each other about ecological/good traditional farming methods, working on the farm of each member as a group, savings and credit schemes, joint marketing of produce and taking social responsibility such as opening a community village road, maintaining a water scheme, paying school fees and scholastics for orphans, constructing a pit latrine for a widow to mention a few. (See also, Mette et al., 2012) The Rwenzori region of Uganda is a mountainous area, highly populated, endowed with relatively naturally fertile alluvial soils that are inherently capable of giving life to a diversity of crops and animals.