Browsing by Author "Naluwairo, Ronald"

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    Benefit sharing in the Forestry Sector in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania: Status, Lessons and Recommendations for Uganda
    (Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment ACODE, 2017) Nabanyumya, Robert; Mugyenyi, Onesmus; Naluwairo, Ronald; Amumpiire, Anna
    There is international consensus that sharing of benefits from natural resources like forests is a key tool that can be used to promote both sustainable management of natural resources and improve livelihoods of natural resource adjacent communities. Effective benefit sharing provides incentives (in form of monetary and non-monetary benefits) for the local communities to engage in sustainable management of the forest resources. The benefits like access to some resources and money also contribute to the well-being of beneficiaries.
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    The East Africa Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Development
    (ACODE, 2006) Tumushabe, Godber; Naluwairo, Ronald
    This i s a synthesis report of the proceedings of the E ast Africa Conference on Intellectual Property Ri ghts and Development which took place i n Jinja-Uganda from the 28th -29th June 2006. The Conference brought together senior level officials from the national IPR offices, research and academic i nstitutions, national planning and i nvestment authorities and practicing IPR lawyers. T heoverarchingobjective of the Conference was to provide a platform for stakeholders to engage i n a mutual dialogue on the role of i ntellectual property rights i n stimulating science and technology i nnovation, technology development and technology transfer within the E ast African Community (EAC). T he Conference also provided a rare opportunity for IPR practitioners from the three E AC States to engage i n a dialogue on practical steps necessary for operationalizing the relevant provisions of the T reaty Establishing the EAC.
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    Enhancing the Role of Courts in Promoting Forest Justice
    (Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment ACODE, 2017) Naluwairo, Ronald
    Despite concerted efforts by government and non-government actors, Uganda continues to suffer from unprecedented rates of deforestation and forest degradation. Current statistics indicate that in the last 25 years, Uganda lost more than half of its forest estate. According to the State of Uganda’s Forestry Report 2016, Uganda’s forest cover reduced from 4.9 million hectares in 1990 to 1.8 million hectares in 2015 translating into a loss of 3.1 million hectares. This rate of loss of forest cover has serious consequences for the lives and livelihood security of many Ugandans. For the most part, this unprecedented loss of Uganda’s forest cover is attributed to the increasing number of forest disputes, crimes and illegalities in the forest sector. This raises the question of settlement of forest-related disputes.
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    Ensuring the Sustainable Availability of Affordable Quality Seeds and Planting Materials in Uganda
    (ACODE, 2014) Naluwairo, Ronald; Barungi, Julian
    The availability and use of quality seeds and planting materials in Uganda remains very low. The use of quality seeds is estimated at just between 10-15 per cent. This is inspite of the fact that the use of quality seeds and planting materials is key in increasing agricultural production and productivity. Explanations for the low availability and low use of quality seeds and planting materials in Uganda include: insufficient breeder and basic seed classes for many varieties; insufficient field supervision and inspection services leading to lack of quality control along the entire seed value chain; and limited capacities in the seed industry especially in the area of research & innovation, and infrastructure for seed production and conditioning. Other reasons include: the lack of seed data to project national seed demand for national planning and forecasting of various seed types that farmers need; high cost of quality seeds; limited farmer awareness; inefficient and ineffective institutional setup and absence of a seed policy.
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    Greening Uganda’s 2016 General Elections Key Issues for Political Parties and Political Leaders to Address in their Manifestoes
    (ACODE, 2015) Naluwairo, Ronald; Mugyenyi, Onesmus; Amumpiire, Anna
    In February and March 2016, Uganda will hold its general elections where eligible citizens will elect their next set of leaders including the President, Members of Parliament, LC Chairpersons and councillors at various levels. The elected leaders will serve for a term of five years. The 2016 Uganda general elections are taking place at a time when the Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) Sector is facing enormous challenges that threaten to substantially reduce their contribution to national growth, development, poverty reduction and peoples’ welfare. It is therefore important that political parties and other actors vying for power in the 2016 general elections prioritize and effectively address ENR issues in their manifestoes.
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    In Defense of Farmers’ and Community Rights: Justifying their Inclusion in Uganda’s Plant Variety Protection Legislation
    (Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment ACODE, 2010) Naluwairo, Ronald; Tabaro, Edgar
    In 2008, it was reported that President Museveni directed that issues of community rights (which in certain respects also include farmers’ rights) should be removed from the draft Plant Variety Protection Bill. There is no convincing reason that was given for the President’s directive. Apparently, in conformity with the President’s directive, when the draft Plant Variety Protection legislation was finally gazetted as a Bill, the substantive sections that had provided for the recognition and protection of farmers’ and community rights had been removed.
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    Investing in orphan crops to improve food and livelihood security of Uganda’s rural poor
    (Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment ACODE, 2011) Naluwairo, Ronald
    This policy research paper is an analysis of the extent to which Uganda’s food and agricultural-related policies and policy frameworks support the production and wider use of orphan crops in national development. Its major objective is to provide policy recommendations that can be adopted to support the production, conservation and wider use of orphan crops for enhanced food and livelihood security, particularly of Uganda’s rural poor.
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    Operationalization of Uganda’s National Tree Fund A Process Audit and Call for Action
    (ACODE, 2014) Naluwairo, Ronald; Amumpiire, Anna; Kyarisiima, Judith
    Uganda is one of the countries losing forest cover at a very alarming rate. It is reported that within a period of 15 years, stretching from 1990, Uganda’s forest cover had reduced by approximately 1.3 million hectares.1 This represents an average annual deforestation rate of 1.8 per cent.2 This means that in less than twenty years, Uganda has lost about 25 per cent of its forest cover. If this rate of loss of forest cover is not contained, it means that in the next 40 years, Uganda will hardly have any forests left. Given the importance of forests to Uganda’s economic development, human well-being and the environment, this spells doom. This has grave implications for the energy sector, tourism, agriculture, food security and the lives and livelihoods of many Ugandans especially the forest-dependent and forest-adjacent communities. A key challenge to efforts aimed at restoring the forest cover and promoting tree planting generally, is the inadequate and lack of appropriate, long term and sustainable funding.
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    Promoting Agriculture Sector Growth and Development: A Comparative Analysis of Uganda’s Political Party Manifestos (2011-2016)
    (Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment ACODE, 2011) Naluwairo, Ronald
    This paper is an analytical comparison of the promises made by Uganda’s different political parties in their manifestos (2011 – 2016) with regard to the measures proposed to address the challenges facing the agriculture sector. The comparison is along eight major areas generally considered key for agricultural growth and development in Uganda. These areas are: agriculture sector financing; agricultural inputs; agricultural credit for farmers; agro-processing and marketing; agricultural education; agricultural extension and advisory services; agricultural research and technology development; and water for agricultural production.
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    Promoting food security and sustainable agriculture through facilitated access to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture
    (Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment ACODE, 2006) Naluwairo, Ronald; Tabaro, Edgar
    The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (herein after referred to as the Treaty) is a landmark international agreement for ensuring food security and sustainable agriculture especially in the developing countries. It establishes an elaborate system of facilitated access to a number of plant genetic resources considered key in agriculture production and meeting the nutritional and food related needs of humanity. Under the system, access is to be provided expeditiously with minimal costs, if at all, only to cover the administrative costs involved. The system also offers several monetary and non-monetary benefits that are vital for ensuring sustainable agriculture, and increased and improved food production to feed the rapidly growing world population.
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    The Protection and Promotion of Farmers’ Rights in East Africa
    (ACODE, 2015) Naluwairo, Ronald
    The importance of plant genetic resources and the need to conserve and sustainably utilize them has been the subject of many regional and international discussions in the last two and a half decades. The thrust of these discussions has centered not only on the modalities of ensuring that these resources are utilized in a sustainable manner but also the need to reward those who have helped nurture and made them available to successive generations. The adoption of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture represents an international consensus that the protection and promotion of farmers’ rights is one way through which countries can achieve the above objectives. The recognition of farmers’ rights by the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the need by member countries to fulfill their obligations has given policy makers a lot of challenges. These challenges mainly revolve on the available policy options for realization of these rights at the national and regional level. In East Africa, where the concept of Farmers’ Rights is new, where majority of the people are illiterate farmers, and where poverty is getting to alarming levels, the implementation of these rights presents peculiar challenges. This paper identifies and addresses some of the major challenges in implementation of farmers’ rights within East Africa’ s social, political, economic and cultural context. The paper is premised on the understanding that the first step in realizing these rights lies in promoting awareness among the different stakeholders about the concept of Farmers’ Rights. The concept of farmers’ rights is new to many stakeholders in the region including the policy makers who are charged with the responsibility of their implementation. The paper therefore goes at length to explain the concept of Farmers’ Rights including tracing it’s origin and evolution. The concept is summarized as based on conservation concerns and equity considerations. It is premised on the fact that rewarding the world farmers for their contribution to agro-biodiversity provides them the incentives to continue nurturing, sustainably utilizing and making available these resources for future generations. It is emphasized that the concept entails the recognition and protection of many rights, the major ones being: the protection of traditional knowledge relevant to plant genetic resources; equitable sharing of benefits arising from their use; participation in decision making processes touching on the conservation and sustainable use of these resources and the right to save, use, exchange and sell farm saved seed/propagating material of farmers’ varieties.
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    Uganda’s access to the European Union agricultural market: Challenges and opportunities
    (Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment ACODE, 2003) Mugyenyi, Onesmus; Naluwairo, Ronald
    The last three decades of trade between Uganda and European Union have not benefited Uganda. Generally the annual trade balance has been negative raising the level of Uganda's external debt to US$ 3.68 billion as of June ,2000. The Lomé Trading arrangement (1975-2000) has not been able to change the trend due to a number of challenges. The Cotonou Partnership Agreement and the EBA initiative may not be able to change the trend unless these challenges have been addressed. The major constraints have been internal, external and structural. The internal factors range from poor trade policies, inadequate support to private sector, narrow export base, reliance on export of raw materials and high level corruption. The external factors include non-tariff barriers, protectionist policies, subsidies, tariff peaks and escalation. The structural challenges mainly relate to poor infrastructure, poor product quality, poor and obsolete technology, poor marketing techniques and insufficient market knowledge which can be summarized as supply side constraints.