Mission

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="04fd2083.jpg"> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="7" WIDTH="191" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="VOID" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCCC99 HEIGHT= 30 WIDTH="173"><div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Organic Perspectives"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Home</B></FONT></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCCC99 HEIGHT= 30 WIDTH="173"><div> <A HREF="about_us.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Us"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>About Us</B></FONT></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCCC99 HEIGHT= 30 WIDTH="173"><div> <A HREF="mission.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mission"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Mission</B></FONT></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCCC99 HEIGHT= 30 WIDTH="173"><div> <A HREF="programs.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Programs"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Programs</B></FONT></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCCC99 HEIGHT= 30 WIDTH="173"><div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Library</B></FONT></A></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCCC99 HEIGHT= 55 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="mailto:organic.uganda@yahoo.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:organic.uganda@yahoo.com"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B><IMG SRC="0509f2c0.jpg" border=0 width="159" height="44" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP BGCOLOR=#CCCC99 HEIGHT= 65 ><NOBR><div> <B>Back to:</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://gaianlife.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://gaianlife.co.uk"><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B> Gaian Life </B></FONT></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#669966" TEXT="#080000" background="048205a3.jpg"> <div> <B>Mission</B><FONT SIZE="7" COLOR="#333300" FACE="Elephant" ><B>     </B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div>  </div> <div> We want to make our organisation a nationally incorporated not-for-profit with activities based at community level and a network of members made up of individual farmers and groups participating in our programs across the country.</div> <div>  </div> <div> <IMG SRC="06396800.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="128" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Our Primary Mission is that of promoting the adoption of forestry management and organic plant breeding concepts for sustainable ecological environments. The Vision for Organic Perspectives is that of sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, food security and economically viable agricultural patterns in local communities. </div> <div>  </div> <div> As our mission and vision statement imply, our strategic objectives are not limited to organic agriculture and tree planting. Our work focuses also on food security and our activities involve supporting the pre-existing traditional agricultural innovations, such as acquiring planting materials for local crop varieties through government or other NGO programs. </div> <div>  </div> <div> Our pivotal action strategy is to establish a central seed bank with organic and standard varieties of vegetables and food/fruit crops; flowers, reforestation tree seeds ands local seeds. The relevance of the central seed bank should be to supply free seeds to local individual farmers and groups through our established community seed banks in our program communities. Organic Perspectives aims to maintain its own demonstration nursery gardens for each of the plant species we are in possession of.</div> <bR> <div> We have little professional expertise as far as organic plant breeding is concerned, nor do we have specialized training in the technical management needs of particular food plants; fruits, flowers or trees.<IMG SRC="05fe60f0.jpg" border=0 width="230" height="271" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">But since agriculture is universally the most indispensable vocation across our country's populace (irrespective of training), our commitment is that of researching transferable knowledge and skills that can actualize in an ecologically sound and economically viable way in our communities.</div> <bR> <div> Our reforestation and agroforestry projects, in particular, are aimed at regenerating green cover (vegetation) in remote communities of Kamuli district (and Uganda in general) where indiscriminate tree cutting for charcoal burning has prevailed over years. While we are aware that this would not put an end to the deforestation cycle in local communities, our ultimate goal in this is that of ensuring forest regeneration and therefore environmental conservation.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0819a490.jpg" border=0 width="666" height="73" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Copyright © Organic Perspectives 2007 | Designed and Developed by Gaian Life</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>