ugnet_: Re: How Museveni's Govt usesWorld Bank loans to make Ugandans Landless

[Rehema Mukooza]

Ssemakula:

 

Mu7 is not different from Obote.  He is trying to reintroduce the socialist / command way of doing things in Uganda.  He like Obote want to take people off their land and allow foreigners/or Ugandans with big bucks to take over and have large-scale plantations of different crops.  What they are forgetting is that in Uganda we want our people to grow these same crops on their peaces of land, individually.  We want people to keep their land and grow what they think brings in more money in their household incomes.  We want a capital economy, not a socialist or command economy.  We want the people to be incharge of their land and what grows on it.  We want to see Ugandans with land not landless Ugandans on their mothersoil.  We need to vote Mu7 out of the chair (No 3rd term).  We need to make some changes in Uganda.  We need to bring Federalism on the table! 

 

We need to bring democracy in Uganda.  If you ask Ugandans what kind of economy they want; to have big people take them off their lands to grow crops large-scale plantations - OR - to have these people grow the same crops on their peaces of land, small-scale plantations??  I'm very confident the people of Uganda will vote for retaining their lands and growing the same crops on their small-scale farms/plantations.  Mu7 is not democratically representing the views of Ugandans.  There is no democracy otherwise Uganda would not be in this same land issue we are in.  We need to start!

 

Zakoomu R.

J Ssemakula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  Vegetable Oil Development Project

 

INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT (IFAD)

 

(IFAD PROJECT ID: 1021)

 

This eight-year project will support the Government's growth strategy by revitalizing and increasing the production of domestic vegetable oils, thereby lessening dependence on imports and opening opportunities for smallholders to increase their cash income. Project activities will be implemented at two locations: Bugala Island in the Kalangala District and Bwamba County in the Bundibugyo District. Project components are:

 

- oil-palm development;

 

- institutional support; and

 

- establishment of a Vegetable Oil Development Fund to support increased vegetable-oil production and processing at the village and rural level.

 

The project will develop an oil-palm industry chiefly involving smallholder growers and private-sector processors; introduce industrial-size mills that are energy-efficient and environmentally sound; develop appropriate technologies to optimize production and processing, especially at the rural/homestead level; and support government efforts to define an enabling framework and set up a consultative body to facilitate interaction among farmers, trade associations, processors, financial institutions and other k ey actors involved in shaping the development of the vegetable-oil subsector.

 

It is estimated that 7,000 smallholder farm families (a total of 42,000 people) will directly benefit from the project. Particular attention will be given to youth, the landless, the unemployed and women in the selection of oil-palm outgrowers and access to credit.

 

Loan amount: SDR 14.4 million (approximately USD 20.0 million) on highly concessional terms.

 

Total project costs are estimated at USD 60.0 million, of which USD 33.1 million will be provided by private-sector investors (through direct equity investments and commercial borrowing), USD 3.8 million by the borrower and USD 3.1 million by the beneficiaries.

 

Cooperating institution: International Development Association (IDA).

 

NOTE: This is a World Bank (IBRD) initated projected. IFAD is an agency of the UN (see below)

 

OTHER RELATED DETAILS:

 

THE DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT PROGRAMME

 

http://www.ifad.org/gbdocs/eb/64/e/EB-98-64-R-20-Rev-1.pdf

 

(see programme brief on page vii)

 

http://www.ifad.org/photo/region/PF/UG.htm (IFAD through Photography - Uganda)

 

 

Statement by Uganda to the 24th Session of the Governing Council (2/13/02) http://www.ifad.org/events/gc/uganda.htm

Chairperson

H.E. The President of IFAD

Distinguished Governors and Observers

Ladies and Gentlemen

 

On behalf of the Government and People of Uganda, I would like to express my gratitude to IFAD for the excellent arrangement they have made for this meeting. I wish to congratulate the outgoing President, Mr Fawzi H. Al-Sultan for successfully completing his term of office and ably steering the Fund.

 

I wish to thank IFAD for its continued support to Uganda since 1981. This, together with the support of other donors, has helped Uganda’s economy grow at an average rate of 6% per annum in the last decade. IFAD’s support is significant because it focuses on the agricultural sector which accounts for 45% of the economy and employs 80% of the population. Consequently it has led to a big reduction in poverty levels in Uganda from 56% in 1992 to 35% in 2000.

 

The Government of Uganda has for several years dedicated its efforts to eradicate poverty. This process has been guided by the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) which was first drawn in 1997 and revised in 2000. The PEAP establishes the policy framework for eradicating poverty in Uganda within the next two decades (1997-2017). Within the PEAP the Government has focused on agriculture and developed the Plan for the Modernisation of Agriculture (PMA). Under this plan, Uganda is being transformed from a poor economy where most people are locked into traditional subsistence agriculture into a modern economy where agents in all sectors are able to participate actively in economic growth.

 

Last year my colleague, The Hon. Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries and Alternate Governor for Uganda informed you that we were at the final stages of the strategic framework for PMA. He requested IFAD support in a number of areas. I am glad to report that the framework has now been finalized and is operational and IFAD has accepted to finance the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme.

 

The Fund is currently financing the following programmes/projects:

 

· Cotton Sub-sector Development Project

 

· Vegetable Oil Development Project

 

· District Development Support Programme

 

· Area-based Agriculture Modernisation Programme

 

The following Projects are in the Pipeline:

 

· UWESO Development Programme

 

· National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAAS) Programme

 

In conclusion, I wish to commend IFAD’s Workplan 2001 especially in as far as it pledges to make a sustainable contribution to poverty eradication.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for listening to me.

 

Statement by Hon. Gerald Ssendaula, Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Governor for Uganda)

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Is BIDCO a "small farmer"? BIDCO is a ***KENYAN***  that is ostensibly going to grow palm trees, from which vegetable oil will supposedly be extracted, from us.

In this "bait-and-switch" project Museveni lied to the World Bank and obtained a loan. He then used a small fraction of it (ca. $230K) to buy land from small farmers for a song, and then turned round and gave it to this strange company (possibly own by one of his relatives or cronnies). 

We are supposed to be surprised when the project spectacularly fails in the coming 3-4 years, so please hold you aahs! And, don't forget, you still have to repay the loan that made your relatives landless in Kalangala district.

Question: this same "project" was supposed also to be carried out in W. Uganda. Does anyone know if the government has similarly acquired land for it?

btw: do you know the altitude at which the oil-bearing palm tree normally grows at?

What is wrong with oil from maize, cotton and/or peanuts or are they not vegetables?

More details later.

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