Norah Owaraga

Unfair trade as experienced by smallholder farmers

There are many implications of how food is used. Nations have to concentrate primarily on getting enough healthy nutritious food for their citizens first. “Food is a weapon (source).” “And Food as weapon is in use (source).” Non-Subsidized Smallholder Farmers The weakest point in commercial agriculture for export, is a Government’s failure to guide…

Is industrial meat a right fit for us?

“My fear is that government agents will eventually grow skeptical of their people’s capacity to deliver this pipe dream and so the agents will justify land grabbing, in order to produce beef industrially. The whole process will bring all sorts of strange investors here. Once again, we and our people will be declared backward, because…

Random finds on our streets

First a disclaimer. I honestly do not think that it is extra ordinary for us to randomly find things on our streets. I dare say it is more the norm for things to be looked for on the streets than we would look for them in the ‘official shopping places.’ It is difficult for me…

We have already done it on paper, it is possible

There are a few things that must take place to succeed on some of those plans. “Cotton, we are going to emphasize not only production of cotton, but also value addition.” In other words, cotton cloth etc. There must be a ban on all second hand (used) clothes donated from overseas and sold cheaply all…