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This study describes environmental policies and priorities by local councils in various districts of southwestern Uganda (5) Once best land uses have been identified for each area, what would be the implications for sector-wide production and income, national food prices and food consumption? Using its DREAM model, IFPRI will estimate wider market and trade impacts of various land-use options. This study concentrated on individual agricultural technologies. (6) Where should USAID choose to focus its own land use development efforts? Using criteria such as: economic growth potential, environmental hot spots, incidence of poverty, population density, infrastructure and market potential, IFPRI developed a scoring matrix providing the basis for selecting specific geographic areas for development that best match USAID’S strategic priorities. This study provides detailed information on some specific technological options for specific farming systems, altitudes etc. and attempts to rank the most promising ones. (7) How can progress be measured? In phase II IFPRI will identify community, market, sector, resource and ecosystem level indicators that could be monitored to assess changes in socio-economic and environmental conditions. This study was confronted with variable data sets in the different districts and many data collection mechanisms by NGOs and others. Monitoring future work in southwestern Uganda would benefit from investment in more uniform data sets. Based on a consultative process that included the information generated by IFPRI, USAID SO7 defined four key results: (1) Increased food security for the vulnerable; (2) Increased productivity of agricultural commodity and natural resource systems; (3) Greater competitiveness of enterprises; and (4) A stronger enabling environment for broad-based growth. 1.2 Objectives of this study The SO7 strategy emphasizes (p.38) that: “Farmers need concrete examples and incentives to increase their productivity. This will require viewing food, cash and export crops holistically, from production through value-adding processing to marketing. Further sustainable resource management must be integrated into production systems in order for change to occur.” In a nutshell, the objective of this study is to develop and test a methodology to identify potential win-win (income/food – environmental goods) technologies and to apply it to the southwest of Uganda, which has been identified as a priority area of SO7. IFPRI’s work had identified southwestern Uganda as one of the prime areas where agricultural intensification is the most promising development pathway. Using a few important commodities, IFPRI assessed their requirements depending on combinations of population density, agroecological conditions and access to markets. One of the outputs was a map highlighting areas for intensification. Figure 1.1 shows the southwestern part of this map, which shows that the most promising development pathway in all areas with a population density above 100 persons km -2 is
the intensification of agriculture. Such high population density is usually found in southwestern Uganda at altitudes above 1400 m.a.s.l. Figure 1.1 IFPRI recommendation domains for intensification in SW Uganda For the development of a southwestern Uganda project, more information is required on the following questions: what are the commodities suitable for intensification in the southwest? where are they most suitable in the southwest? how can they be identified? IFPRI requested ICRAF to provide support in answering these questions, given ICRAF’s long history of working in southwestern Uganda. In more detail, the expected outputs are as follows: (1) A structure for compiling information about potential win-win technologies and practices, suitable for application in and beyond SW Uganda (2) Inventory and characterization of technologies and practices judged to be successful in (some part or all of) SW Uganda, including: a) Nature of technology b) Assessment of scale of adoption c) Preconditions for likely success d) Type and scale of derived benefits (3) A similar inventory of promising technologies or practices targeted for SW Uganda (4) Exploring complementary practices in addition to individual ones. Often, success hinges upon the uptake of multiple techniques. In SW Uganda, for example, climbing beans require stakes. To achieve the above, three prior outputs are needed:
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Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Description Wetland farming Farm wo
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delineate areas where new technolog
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Overall, there is little scope for
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• Local leaders and farmers are a
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5.2.4 What next ? To make options f
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These biological conservation measu
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• Dual-purpose goats (produce mil
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