Women play a vitally important role in a whole range of agricultural activities. According to the Pew Research Centre, women make up at least half the productive workforce in some African countries. In addition to their role as food producers, they a…
By the time CTA’s regional flagship project for Southern Africa comes to an end in 2020, around 140,000 small-scale farmers in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi will have adopted a range of climate-smart strategies to help them cope with drought and erra…
This is the second workshop on capitalization of experiences for greater impact in rural development. This new capitalization process has started beginning of August 2017 with representatives of organizations based in…
AP AgTech Summit 2017: Progressive Farmer, Smart Farming, an initiative of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, being held in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dalberg Advisors, and Confederation of Indian Industry. The Summit will be a global event that will be held in the FinTech Capital and Smart City, Visakhapatnam, on November 15-17, 2017 and will be led by the Hon’b…
Farmers’ organisations and AgriCord’s role in rural transformation and in feeding cities and townsFarmers’ organisations (FOs) are stable, rural institutions, representing a good part of the rural population in negotiations on rural transition models and necessary investments, adapted to the rural population’s own context.By thei…
A four-day workshop is set to take place in Goa, India, targeting the representatives of different organisations in India and Southeast Asia, all of them involved in development initiatives covering a wide range of themes. The workshop is part of a project aiming to support the development of participants’ skills to start and complete a capitalisation process. This will involve acc…