As climate change poses fresh challenges to farmers across ACP countries, donors, development banks and private lenders are developing innovative blended finance and risk-sharing solutions.
Eva Oakes describes Choco4Peace’s experience building a network based on blockchain technology in the cocoa sector in Colombia. The main aim is to get smallholders out of both cocaine production and poverty through access to finance.
In order to build economic resilience, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) must expand its more than €16 billion export market by improving regional and international market access. Upgraded sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures can lead to incre…
Agriculture is central to any debate on climate change given the enormous responsibility placed on the sector to produce 60% more food by 2050 despite changing climatic uncertainties. The case for increased investment in climate-smart agriculture has been articulated in different forums as a way to promote agricultural transformation and chart a path to scale up climate actions in agricu…
Agriculture has been declining in the Caribbean over the last 10 years. Nevertheless, it still provides a livelihood for many, especially in rural communities, and contributes to food and nutrition security. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has highlighted the need for the region’s agriculture to become more business oriented. Indeed, some farmers are still able to access export markets in E…
This event is funded under the Intra-ACP APP. During the event, scientists from the Pacific will conduct an exchange in the Caribbean (Jamaica & Trinidad and Tobago) to learn new breeding techniques of root crops, including staple food crops, and cash crops. They will be visiting a number of research institutions in both countries. Participants' experiences will be documented and will later…
The VU Network Institute, the Netherlands Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems SIKS, the VU Computer Science Department and the International Office at the VU University Amsterdam kindly invite you to attend the Second International Symposium “Perspectives on ICT4D”.
ICT4D is the fast growing field of practice and study how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) ca…