30 October 2020. Indigenous Food and Seed Fair happening - organised by PELUM.
Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Association is a regional network of over 250 civil society organizations in 12 countries in East, Central and Southern Africa working in the area of participatory ecological land use management. The Association works to improve the livelihoods of small-scale farmers and the sustainability of farming communities, by fostering ecological land use management. Country chapters include Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland and Ethiopia.
You can download the Strategic Plan (2017-2021) or read the PELUM Uganda Brochure or The PELUM Uganda Case Statement for more details
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The guest of honor and FAO country representative, Mr. Antonio Querido officially opened the 2nd National Agroecology Actors' Symposium 2020.
Keynote Presentation: Agroecology for healthy indigenous plants and consumers - Dr. Fred Kabi, Senior Lecturer, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Makerere University
Panel discussion
- Dr Fred Kabi,Makerere University
- Hon. Francis Gonahasa, Parliament of Uganda
- Hakim Baliraine, ESAFF Uganda
- Mr. Alex Bambona, Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF)
- Moderated by: Odongotho
Regional experience sharing sessions:
Central, Northern (Lango and Acholi), Eastern (Busonga,
Bugisu and Karamoja), Western (Ankole, Kigezi and Rwenzori)-Live broadcast showing various
indigenous foods and seed
The major objective of the food fair was to showcase the actual and potential contribution of agroecology on indigenous plant health, conservation of agricultural biodiversity and food sovereignty of smallholder farming communities and Uganda at large.
- To showcase different agroecological practices, indigenous and traditional foods and seeds from different Ugandan societies, their preservation, preparation, innovation/ value addition and consumption.
- To create awareness on the value of indigenous/ traditional food systems, agroecology and their contribution in strengthening the resilience capacity of smallholder farming communities to climate change related stresses, pandemics (such as COVID-19) and other biotic and abiotic stresses
- To provide a platform for dialogue and experience sharing on the policy frameworks, benefits, current threats and challenges faced by agroecology and strategies to promote them.
PELUM TALK SHOW: Strategies for scaling up agroecology in Uganda
Meet Joseph. Joseph cares about his fellow farmers who are finding that expensive seeds are preventing them from being able to plant sustainably during harvest. Joseph gave up his own building to be refurbished as a community seed bank to help each other as well as help the environment.
“๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ก ๐ค๐ฃ ๐๐๐ง๐ข๐๐ง๐จ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐ค๐ข๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐จ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐จ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐ค๐ช๐ง๐จ๐๐ก๐ซ๐๐จ…๐๐ค ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฅ๐ก๐๐ฃ๐ฉ, [๐๐ฃ๐] ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ง๐ซ๐๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐ ๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ง๐ฃ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ค๐ง๐ง๐ค๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ข๐ข๐ช๐ฃ๐๐ฉ๐ฎ ๐จ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐ , ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐ก ๐๐๐ก๐ฅ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ง๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐ง๐ค๐ฌ.” – Joseph Mukasa
PELUM Uganda wanted to share a story that showed it was possible to revive traditional seed sharing between community members in a way that improves farmers’ access to quality and diverse seeds and leads to more resilient and self-reliant communities. They wanted to make it personal and relateable, so they chose to show it through interviewing one person at one community seed bank, taking photographs of the process to create the seed bank and then coming back later in the week to photograph the seed bank in action, being used by the community.
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