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Organic plant breeding </div> <div> 2. Ecologically co-existent plant husbandry </div> <div> 3. Food security and agro-economic diversification </div> <div> 4. Environmental conservation and multipurpose tree regeneration</div> <div> 5. Carbon Emissions Reduction</div> <bR> <div> .....................................................................................................................................................................</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="David" ><B>Carbon Emissions Reductions Project</B></FONT> <A NAME="carbon"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://gaianlife.co.uk/organicperspectives/CarbonProjectPINforOrganicPerspectives.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://gaianlife.co.uk/organicperspectiv"><FONT COLOR="#000000">1. Carbon PIN for Organic Perspectives’ Carbon Project</FONT></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://gaianlife.co.uk/organicperspectives/Winrock%20Carbon%20Project%20Assistance%204%20OP.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://gaianlife.co.uk/organicperspectiv"><FONT COLOR="#000000">2. Technical documentation assistance to be provided by Winrock International </FONT></A></div> <div> 3. <A HREF="http://gaianlife.co.uk/organicperspectives/Carbon%20offsetting%20Project%20Proposal.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://gaianlife.co.uk/organicperspectiv"><FONT COLOR="#000000">Carbon Offsetting Project Proposal</FONT></A></div> <div> .....................................................................................................................................................................</div> <bR> <div> <B>STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES</B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="David" ><B> <A NAME="objectives"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></FONT></div> <div> Supporting the pre-existing food security programs by enabling local communities to access free and quality planting materials. </div> <div> Promoting the use of ecologically co-existent agriculture practices as a shift from monoculture and typically subsistence gardening to a more diversified agriculture industry </div> <div> Protecting the earth's ecosystems through tree-regeneration projects and the adoption of organic gardening practices. </div> <div> Building the capacity of local farmers to produce good quality harvests of high demand on the global market.</div> <div> Developing partnerships with government and/or similar NGO programs aimed at environmental conservation, food security and agrarian economic emancipation.</div> <div>  <IMG SRC="060bdec0.jpg" border=0 width="445" height="236" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> .....................................................................................................................................................................</div> <div> <B>SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES</B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="David" ><B> <A NAME="activities"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000996600.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Providing free seeds and/or planting materials to individual local farmers and groups through community seed banks. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000996600.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Training local communities in the most ecologically sustainable organic farming practices for particular plants, soil maintenance, weed control, pest & disease control and harvest storage. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000996600.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Initiating reforestation and agro-forestry projects through supply of free seeds to individuals and practicing groups in local communities.<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#333399" FACE="David" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> .....................................................................................................................................................................</div> <div> <B>PROJECTS</B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="David" ><B> <A NAME="projects"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></FONT></div> <div> Our intended field projects (subject to modification) fall into the following two categories and respective sub-components:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Organic Gardening Techniques</B></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000666600.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Growing vegetables</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000666600.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Fruits</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000666600.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Flowers</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000666600.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Food plants</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000666600.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Development and use of organic fertilizers for soil productivity</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000666600.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Organic weed control methods</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000666600.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Organic pests and disease control methods</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000666600.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Care for stored harvests</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="06170690.jpg" border=0 width="112" height="105" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#666633" FACE="David" >There is currently no focused initiative towards organic agriculture in Uganda. Organic fertilizers for instance are completely unavailable and awareness creation on organic weed/disease control measures and organic plant breeding is totally lacking. </FONT></div> <div> The National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) is the government's Agency for agriculture modernization. NAADS activities are not in keeping with the growing organic agricultural need and little of their work addresses environmental conservation. Their focus is on practices that still involve use of agro-chemicals, genetically modified breeding and supply of local crop species. NAADS main objective means more investment in large scale commercial and subsistence agriculture through the principle of abundance but not so much about sustainable production. For instance, while they consider that organic fertilizers would take long to compost (and therefore to accrue large amounts for distribution to farmers), NAADS maintains wide usage of inorganic ones for expeditious production.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Environmental Conservation, Food Security and Agro-economy Diversification</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000996600.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Reforestation (tree cultivation for environmental conservation and economic emancipation)</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000996600.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Agroforestry (combined cultivation of organic/ordinary food species for food security; co-existent crop husbandry and agro-economy diversification-multiple outputs than monoculture would fetch)</div> <bR> <div> .....................................................................................................................................................................<FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#666633" FACE="David" ><IMG SRC="062b6f80.jpg" border=0 width="182" height="248" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></FONT></div> <div> Whilst (as mentioned) we are not professional agriculturists ourselves, we appreciate that agriculture widely affects environmental changes and is an indispensable cross-cultural backbone for the economy of our country, even where current practise brings up issues of the high input required to maintain the level of output and fails to address sustainability. A `research and reference' approach including hosting of technical human resource is therefore vitally the basis of our interventions. We particularly appreciate our current involvement with Gaian Life (UK) as one of our prospective sources of technical and scientific expertise on growing techniques, environmental technologies and permaculture in general.</div> <bR> <div> In addition, one of the volunteering colleagues on our team (Mugabi Solomon by name) has a BA (Hons) in Agribusiness Management and has good knowledge of the existing agricultural innovations and service provisions in our country. He works with local communities in six Sub Counties in Kamuli district under the government's NAADS program. His role is to promote food security, commercial agricultural production and marketing farmers produce. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0909c490.jpg" border=0 width="668" 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>