Aida Majesi
You have written very well, I would have loved to respond to you for this
writing is very important to me but I have a very tough evening with time.
Let me put it this way very quickly. I have a problem with Africa looking
for markets out there, what we need is to create a middle class in Africa to
be able to have our own market. Aida selling goods out of Africa or out of
Uganda is a very good idea but it can never be used to be a center stage of
an economy, a national economy is built mainly by making the population rich
enough to be a basic market then you target the market outside.
And a good example is a flower industry in Uganda, although Uganda has a
fertile land and good weather to grow flowers on an annual basis, Ugandans
do not understand the value of flowers. If you go home today and buy flowers
to a woman in Uganda she throws them away for a very simple reason, the
economy of Uganda does not allow men to buy them. One actually asked me a
simple question, why would I invest into things that perish in a day? I
bought flowers to a friend that had gone to Uganda for a visit and I was
surprised that Roses are sold cheapest in all Uganda flowers. Secondly until
2012 you cannot send flowers to Uganda on line again all these are signs of
an economy that needs to be bumped up.
The Chinese economy has developed due to several reasons but most of the
important one is that it has its own market. If you all refuse to buy
Chinese products the people in China will buy them and the economy will
still roll. A home built economy is not affected by wars, weather or enemies
of the Queen, and is not hindered by foreign tariffs but you have a
transformation of the population forty have the money to spend. Ugandans are
producing poor people. And I opine that before we sell that shirt made in
Uganda under AGOA to a kid in New Jersey we need to make it accessible to a
Ugandan kid in Serere for he sold his cooking oil tin made from the cotton
seeds he grew in Serere and the oil made in a Serere cooking oil factory.
The task is job creation than running abroad before we fix home.
EM
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"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aida Majesi
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 4:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: {UAH} Re: Bad News for Africans
Marketing is very important sadly is left to the grassroots people. Not even
local market is the preserve of Ugandan growers any longer. Laws are imposed
on poor countries which must open up for imports from abroad. To this end,
experts (called Economic Hit Men) professionals highly paid by the developed
nations as John Perkins in his Confessions of An Economic Hit Man explains,
for the purpose of marketing every conceivable product manufactured by
western multinational companies. Dambisa Mayo explained that only 1% is the
cap Africa is allowed to export to Europe.
An American couple (Greg and Cindy Platt working in Mali had this to say to
John Perkins who writes) ... became aware of the harm caused by Genetically
Modified Organisms (GMO) and of the collusion between US agencies and the
big businesses that produce and market GMOs. Farmer families that had lived
off the land for hundreds of years, saving seeds to replant their crops,
were now becoming dependent on fertilisers, pesticides and seeds they had to
purchase from foreign companies. The couple attended a conference by
farmers (Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Togo Benin and Gambia) where they
discovered more ravaging effects of US cotton subsidies on Malian farmers.
By allowing American farmers to sell their cotton at artificially low
prices, our government undercuts African producers in world markets. African
farmers often have to store their cotton for a year or more and then may be
forced to sell at rock-bottom prices, or not at all. To make matters worse,
(American) experts are persuading farmers to shift from food crops to
cotton, as a cash crop. ...And further ... industry has created a large
sector of highly paid foreigners who live luxurious lives and who are out of
touch with the very people they are supposed to serve. But specifically,
The myth of development is alive and well in the USA. This myth paints a
picture of people in Africa and other Third World countries as ignorant,
backward, helpless, stupid, and incapable of managing their own lives. ..
In our situation, roadblocks pose a barrier to free passage of goods and
people. However, going by the debates on UHA yahoo-groups, they are here to
stay. Meanwhile GMO seeds arrive in the country with the greatest of ease,
in order that farmers become dependent on them, along with fertilisers and
pesticides and implements. Farmers also have to begin afresh since they have
to learn from experts (as above) growing improved(?) crop.
So yes, it is very important to talk about markets. When every country is
flooded with GMO crops, why would they export from Uganda the same produce
which came from their nation in the first place? This is why Economic Hit
Men are employed to convince. You say there is nothing to fear? The
grassroots farmer must cross horns with the Economic Hit Men and
multinational companies and US agencies equipped with only mis-information!
While the Economic Hit Men know all there is about GMO, the grassroots
farmers know zero. Thus we must re-educate ourselves to value what we know
best growing organic crops and tap into the internet and wherever
information can be found to talk marketing.
Skeptics will point out the above does not concern Uganda. Concerning us, an
NGO worker to Uganda, among other things started off with a question, Are
we (NGO workers) being used? Are the concepts of aid and development simply
tools in the arsenal of the West, wielded not for the sake of charity but
for the sake of control? ...Another dilemma in Northern Uganda... there are
more NGOs than boda-bodas...We are like a fig leaf that Western governments
hide behind when they don't have or want a diplomatic or political
solution....
I agree, it is very important we talk about markets and I would add, related
factors. No one individual has answers.
On 25 July 2012 11:07, Pyerarama <[email protected]> wrote:
Aida,
No one fears agriculture, all that the peasants require is MARKET for their
produce, do you know why 1960s/70s farmers flourished, they had their
cooperatives which markets their farm produce which is no more, thanks to
M7's VISION.
Next time you talk about agriculture, talk about marketing too.
Thanks
Stewart
On Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:27:11 PM UTC+2, Ladostate wrote:
As we receive on our Lado desk : Scientists Support UNs Acquisition of
Africas Natural Resources
The Copenhagen Consensus 2012 project has combined the expertise of Nobel
laureates to define prioritization and economic principles to create
proposals for international policy reform. The issues researched were :
Armed conflicts
Biodiversity
Population growth
Food and Water Securitization
Natural disasters
World hunger
Global warming
Cost benefits and the allocation of funding were outlined. The expert panel
spoke in Denmark to coerce climate change conference attendees that these
investment proposals should be enacted immediately. At the Copenhagen
conference, $75 billion, an increase of 15% in current aid, is needed to
change the world for the sake of global warming. Budget restraints did not
deter the researchers assertion for investments in:
Subsidies for malaria treatments
Immunizations for poor countries like Africa and India
Expanded childhood immunizations
Research and development to save biodiversity from the human population
Geo - engineering research and development and eventual application
Global vaccinations for HIV
The Global Fund is managing the Affordable Medicines Facility to expand
treatments for malaria. They receive donations from UNTAID, the UK
Department for International Development (DFID) and other financial
contributors NGOs and private sector supporters assisting the AMF negotiate
with pharmaceutical corporations on drugs they can disburse
to countries they have identified as needy. Grants are in the process of
being acquired. Those countries defined as in need include :
Cambodia
Ghana
Kenya
Madagascar
Niger
Nigeria
Tanzania
Uganda
Lado's Comment :
There is a clear depopulation of Africa agenda outlined within the
researchers proposal to the Copenhagen Conference. Through proposals by
expert scientists, the agenda behind
climate change and biodiversity is coming into the light. Africa has been in
the spotlight with the UN and other alarmists intending to control the
planets resources. The UN has empowered corporations and foreign
governments to begin land grabbing for control over African agriculture .
The United Nations (UN) has enacted global guidelines on purchasing
agricultural land from developing nations like Africa and Asia. The UN
claims that to secure equality for the poor and disadvantaged, this
international body must control their lands
through the allowance of mutli-national corporations and governments who
will develop the land for agriculture and securitize the crop yields;
thereby giving the UN control over the global food supply.
The Copenhagen Consensus 2012 project is simply furthering the UNs cause to
take complete control over Africa. Considering the plethora of natural
resources in Africa, it makes
perfect sense why the UN and multi-national corporations are now usurping
this continent for their own use. UN Guidelines Use Corporations in African
for Land Grab Who controls the land controls the nation. Corporations and
foreign governments have been land-grabbing from third world nations to
control agriculture and mainly to control the populations of the Africa
people .
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