ABOUT
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The purpose of the Sustainable Energy and Organic
Farming System (SEOFS), as can be implied from the name, is
all about sustainability. The aim of SEOFS’ existence is to
become one of the forces questing for sustainable development
– a concept that is so popular but not practically given its
due attention. Sustainable development is one that meets the
needs of the present without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs (Brundtland Commission).
In other words, it as a pattern of resource use that aims to
meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these
needs can be met not only in the present, but in the indefinite
future.
The motto for SEOFS, therefore, is Building Confidence
Today for Tomorrow. To be exact, our eyes as the current generation
should not be ashamed to look into the face of the future generation.
Even if we might not live long to see the future generation,
are we confident that our grand children will remember us with
a simile that we minded their survival or will they instead
frown our past generation due to our selfishness that makes
their lives almost unbearable?
Though so many factors must be considered in the
search for sustainable development, SEOFS addresses three major
aspects: Energy Systems, Agricultural Production Practices and
the Environmental Management Approach.
This is achieved through training of groups, organizations,
institutions, companies and even groups, on how to approach
sustainability.
Of the three development components, SEOFS deliberately began
its operation with Energy. Biomass energy, which constitutes
over 90% of the total energy consumption in Uganda and being
utilized for cooking by 97% of the households, has formed the
major priority for SEOFS. The activities being carried out are
those addressing the demand side, which include Efficient Biomass
Energy Technologies. Since the household sector is the main
consumer of biomass, SEOFS decided to promote and disseminate
the improved stove, which has acted as the entry point for the
rest of the future activities in the different parts of the
country. The choice of the stove model for dissemination has
been the mud rocket stove. This model has been chosen because
it can be made out of locally available materials that are low-cost
or basically costless; hence the dissemination allows the use
of a variety of approaches.
SEOFS considerably had amazing success in the stove dissemination
projects it has undertaken. An important core value of SEOFS
is flexibility in operation. By flexibility, SEOFS has been
able to use three different strategies in the dissemination,
depending on the need and nature of the beneficiaries and the
preference of the benefactors.
In principle, SEOFS has employed three different models for
the dissemination of the stoves:
1.
The Commercialized approach
2.
The semi-commercialized approach
3.
The social Approach
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