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Story: Story: The Gayaza Schools Agricultural Innovation Platform (G-SAIP)
(like communication, problem solving, interpersonal relation, mobilization, report making) are also enhanced. This platform culminates into a market place, where different actors along the implemented value chains participate and benefit in various ways. It is aimed at helping these youths, from an ...more
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Story: Story: From training to practice: Impact of INGENAES Project on Uganda Agricultural Extension Service delivery
district with World Bank funds. Nantatya asserts that, “Most women in Iganga are marginalized throughout the agricultural value chain and our original solution was just to implement affirmative action but I realised that people’s mind-sets were not changing”. He has thus resorted to training on the value ...more
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News: News: THE ANNUAL SCHOOL FARM CAMP
venture while at school so as to create change agents for schools and in their communities. The objectives include; 1. To train the youth in scientific approaches to improved nutrition of Livestock and to follow the value chain processes involved. 2. To introduce the youth to crop-livestock integration so ...more
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Story: Story: From farmers and traders to knowledge artisans
other economic actors to contribute knowledge to their socio-economic networks. Every farmer or trader should control his or her own learning and belong to a network. Engaging with other value chain actors, especially those different from you, is the key to making sense of too much information whose ...more
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Opportunity: AAIN mentorship programme for Africa
Africa Agribusiness Incubation Network (AAIN) is a private sector institution and with very high whose mandate is to strengthen agribusiness incubation in Africa. As part of her implementation strategy, AAIN is working with mentors who have experience in v ...more
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News: News: INVITATION TO MALAWI FORUM FOR AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES (MaFAAS) EXTENSION WEEK 19 TO 23 JUNE 2017 IN LILONGWE MALAWI
Infrastructure Extension in value chains Markets Processing Financial inclusiveness for rural communities Infrastructure support for agriculture productivity Emerging value chains Learning from failures Learning from past initiatives and technologies that failed 2.3 Where Is It Taking Place? The proposed venue ...more
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Story: Story: How informal agricultural traders capture and preserve customer loyalty
interaction will always remain important in validating commodities and explaining benefits. No machine can fulfil such critical roles. To gain a competitive advantage in agriculture markets, farmers and other value chain actors will have to balance the evolving value of digital technology and the power of ...more
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Story: Story: GENDER AS A DEVELOPMENT CONCERN
agricultural sector after secondary education and have a limited addition along value chain beyond farm production especially in Uganda. Its imperative to note that secondary education increases the production of women in all sector,therefore there is need to ensure USE program particularly target women and ...more
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News: News: Reflections on the 3rd AFAAS Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week 2017 AFAAS Content
productivity-enhancing technologies, value-adding processes and loss-reducing practices in the value chains within which smallholder producers are embedded. The field visits were very educative for me and the participants because it was a real reflection of what was being discussed during the side events in closed ...more
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Story: Story: NIFAAS Intensifies Efforts to Increase Membership
training of members, serve as knowledge platform and enhance communication patterns among members as well as improve the utilisation of knowledge and technologies along with agricultural value chain actors, among others”. Professor Apantaku, who is also the Public Relations Officer of NIFAAS, highlighted ...more