Outscaling the Agro+ASH Fertilizer Solution which is a low cost kitchen firewood ash based fertilizer in partnership with Evergreen International Uganda Limited
As regards partnership for implementation: lots of care needs to be given in identifying implementation partners. Experience has proved that many good initiatives have failed to yield tangible results for the poorest as a result of poor allocation of activities between implementation partners. My advice would that activities should be allocated to partners based on their mandate, capacity, consent and proximity to the target clientele/beneficiaries. This will increase chances of the benefits trickling down to the rightful targets and reducing the disappointment of the SSF Guidelines being another good policy document with no traceable outputs at community level.
Regards,
Kenneth Senkosi
Many thanks for the topic. Addressing nutrition issues from a private sector perspective is a challenge as its profit margin oriented. As you know well balanced foods attract premium prices thus, fewers sales and that makes them 'unpalatable' to investers. However, the private sector in partnership with CSOs can make a positive change. The public will have a quicker buyin for the adoption of menus involving nutrious foods if this cause is CSO led. Therefore, the private sector needs to finance the CSOs to this effect.
In essense, the model is research, production and finance to be handled by the private sector with promotion led by the civil society for greater public buyin.
Regards,
Kenneth Senkosi
For nutrition enhancing agriculture and food systems to become a reality, there is need for technology transfer agents, commercial farms with outgrower schemes to institutionalise the practice of enterprise diversification within their operational plans. As farmers become market oriented, some one needs to constantly remind them about the economic benefits of having all nutrients required by their bodies being sourced onfarm. This way agriculture will gradually lead to nutritional security
Thanks,
Kenneth Senkosi
Mr. Senkosi Kenneth
Dear Moderator,
My contribution to this particular topic will focus on a critical and sensitive challenge.
Indeed, we all embrace the fact that ICT has lots of potential to enhance coordination of agricultural activities at both national and local levels and should be a basic vehicle for generating data to inform policies and development interventions. However, in many African countries, embracing of some ICT options still has a long way to go. Adoption of some ICT options such as UAVs (drones) which are very handy in gathering data over expansive loci in a short time for purposes of agricultural statistics and national planning has met resistance due to security reasons. The challenge is for the promoters to convince governments that while flying UAVs, the focus will only be on agricultural related data and that the resultant imagery will be treated with caution and guarded against landing into unsafe hands. It is, therefore, imperative that deliberate efforts of enhancing the role of ICT in contributing to poverty reduction and enhancing food security should start with the requisite awareness to the political class. This will stimulate adequate government support in terms of provision of an enabling operational environment.