Selected articles
Selected articles from CTA and partners programmes
Natural spaces : communities take action
Community protected areas enable local communities to regain control of threatened natural spaces. They offer an alternative to the protected areas established and managed by governments. Several professional voluntary networks linked to IUCN have been pushing for recognition of this concept. One successful example has recently been launched in Casamance, southern Senegal.
By Dr...
Promoting Agricultural Innovation Systems Approach
Investments in knowledge systems have featured consistently in most strategies to promote sustainable agricultural development at the national level. The World Bank alone has invested more than 2.5 billion USD into agricultural R&D and advisory services over the past 20 years. Many of these investments have resulted in very high returns and pro-poor growth. We have also been fairly suc...
People at the centre of technology
In the mid-1960s, land reform in my country gave the land back to the farmers. This marked the end of feudalism, and although you might expect the farmers to have broken all ties with their former landlords, they did not. On the contrary, the farmers maintained a cordial relationship with the former landowners and continued to seek their views. At the time, most of the farmers were illiter...
CTA Celebrates...
September is World Tourism Month and this year the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) will hold special commemorative events in Ghana. The occasion is the 30th anniversary of World Tourism Day (27 September). The theme of this year’s events is “Celebrating Diversity” and UNWTO aims to highlight the world’s cultural wealth and the important role of sustainable tourism in revi...
Dominican Annual Flower Show
The villages of Giraudel and Eggleston in Dominica lie adjacent to the Morne Trois Pitons National Park which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998. Traditional activities such as hunting, fishing, farming and logging were no longer viable in light of the conservation efforts – and the banana industry had been severely affected by changes in the preferential trade arrangements...
Follow The Seminar on the Web
The CTA Seminar on “The Role of Media in the Agricultural and Rural Development of ACP Countries” began on Monday 12 October 2009 with a live webcast from 14.30 to 19.00 (Brussels time).
Highlights of the week included a Brussels Briefing on media and Agriculture on Day 1; a book launch on Day 2; the taping of a special TV programme and CTA’s 25th Anniversary Ceremony featuring...
CTA Observatory on Mobile Services
The ACP-EU Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), together with its partners, held the 2009 meeting of its ICT Observatory on ICTs on the theme of “mobile information services” for agricultural and rural development. The seminar was held in Wageningen, The Netherlands from 2 to 4 November 2009 and was attended by about 30 international experts.
Wi...
Information and Knowledge for Development (InK4DEV) Week
CTA will host three workshops in Windhoek, Namibia from 9-13 November 2009 under the banner of “InK4Dev”.
The Workshops will run simultaneously at Hotel Safari. The Knowledge for Development in Africa Seminar: Challenges and Opportunities is primarily concerned with sensitising key stakeholders on the importance of knowledge management and the role it can play in p...
CTA convenes 8th meeting of Advisory Committee on S&T for ACP Agricultural and Rural Development
The ACP agricultural sector faces numerous challenges to effectively satisfy the food and nutrition needs of its growing population and to meet the requirements for competing in global markets while fulfilling its role as a driver of economic growth and social development.
These challenges are compounded by: (i) under investments in agriculture, science, research and tertiary ed...
CTA Supports COP 15
In 2008, CTA devoted its annual seminar to the implications of climate change for sustainable agricultural production systems in ACP countries. At the end of the seminar, the participants produced the Ouagadougou Declaration which featured recommendations to minimize short- and long-term vulnerability of the ACP countries to climate change.
The Centre continues its work ai...
