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Balancing Economic, Ecological, and Environmental Goals in Sustainable Farming Systems in Uganda

This project focuses on finding tradeoffs between economic gains, ecological sustainability, and environmental conservation in subsistence farming in Eastern Uganda. It involves analyzing indicators like poverty, soil quality, health, water quality, biodiversity, and climate change. Scenarios include input-output price policies, technology development, and infrastructure improvements to enhance sustainable farming practices. The project aims to formulate and submit proposals, organize workshops with stakeholders, review and adapt datasets, model production and environmental impacts, and publish findings for feedback and further development.

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Balancing Economic, Ecological, and Environmental Goals in Sustainable Farming Systems in Uganda

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  1. Establishing tradeoffs between economic, ecological and environmental goals for attaining sustainable farming systems in Eastern Uganda Makerere University, Faculty of Agriculture, Depts. Of Soil Science, Crop Science, Agricultural Economics District production staff Wageningen University, Montana State University

  2. Application Description • Eastern Uganda, Pallisa District • Subsistence farmingCrops: sorghum, millet, maize, cassave, sweet potatoes, riceLivestock: goats, free-range cattle

  3. Application Description (2) • Indicators • Economic Indicators: • Poverty, food security • Soil quality indicators: • Yields+trends, nutrient depletion, systems sustainability • Health indicators: • Water quality and availability, agro-chemical contamination • Environmental indicators: • biological degradation, biodiversity, pesticide pollution, climate change

  4. Application Description (3) • Scenarios: • Input-output price policies • Technology developments e.g. IPM, INM • Non-farm employment generation • Infrastructure development • Adding-value options (crop diversification, processing)

  5. Data • Available: • NUTMON dataset for 60 farmhouseholds • To be collected: • Georeference data • Soil map ? • ..

  6. Work Plan • Formulating and submission of project proposal to donor (Rockefeller Foundation) • Organising inception workshop with stakeholders: Local and Central Government, Academia, NGO’s, Farmers’ organisations, Donors • Data organisationReview literature, review and adapt NUTMON dataset, filling datagaps

  7. Work Plan • Modeling: establish production models, review environmental model (NUTMON), formulation of economic models, iterative interaction with stakeholders • Results: reports, publications, feedback workshops • Backstopping: project formulation, data organisation, modelling

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