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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Bringing agriculture to market: learning from Madina
What are the critical challenges we must address to feed the world? How can we overcome them? There are some of the questions that Gordon Conway, Director of Agriculture for Impact, answers in his forthcoming book ‘One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?’, … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, food security, Ghana, nutrition, Sustainable agriculture, Uncategorized, video content
Tagged accra, book, Cornell, food, Ghana, Madina, market
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Collaboration in Action
Many of the global challenges we face are interconnecting and complex. They require interdisciplinary solutions. For example food supply chains, from producer to consumer, are long and formed of many actors, processes and locations. Often the agricultural development sector focuses … Continue reading
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Transforming Africa: perspectives from West Africa
On 13th July, Dr K.Y. Amoako, Founder and President of the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) opened the final of three regional workshops, organised co-hosted by the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), and Agriculture for Impact (A4I) … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, extension services, farmer, farmers as entrepreneurs, food security, Ghana, scaling up, smallholder, Sustainable agriculture, sustainable intensification, Uncategorized, women in agriculture
Tagged A4I, agriculture, FANRPAN, farmers, Ghana, markets, ODI, scaling up, smallholders, SNV, West Africa
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Getting on with the job: connecting smallholders to markets in eastern Africa
Over 30 agricultural development practitioners from four eastern African countries participated in a ‘Smallholder Café’ in Nairobi on the 11th July. The event was the second of three regional workshops, organised by Future Agricultures Consortium, and co-hosted by the Food, … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, extension services, farmer, farmers as entrepreneurs, food security, private sector, Resilience, scaling up, smallholder, sustainable intensification, Uncategorized, women in agriculture
Tagged Africa, agribusiness, eastern Africa, Equity Bank, FAC, FANRPAN, Gates Foundation, Kenya, markets, Nairobi, ODI, One Acre Fund, scaling up, smallholders
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Asking the experts: connecting smallholders to markets in southern Africa
How can we connect asset-poor smallholders to markets in southern Africa? And what are the respective roles of civil society, governments, and big business to achieve this? These were some of the questions considered by agricultural development practitioners from six … Continue reading
Posted in africa, agriculture, extension services, farmer, farmers as entrepreneurs, food security, Gates Foundation, private sector, scaling up, smallholder, Sustainable agriculture, women in agriculture
Tagged Africa, agriculture, DFID, FANRPAN, Gates Foundation, NASFAM, private sector, profit, scaling up, smallholders, SNV, southern
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