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After losing 700 of 1,000 catfish fingerlings in her debut fish farming enterprise, Divine-Love Akam switched to working in agriculture, a sector many investors and banks think twice about supporting.

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Getting open data benefits to farmers will be crucial if the move towards open access is to have any real impact. There is a lot potential, but lack of reliable and contextualised data is currently working against smallholder farmers.

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A new CTA publication explains the importance of documenting knowledge accumulated by generations of indigenous people to effectively address the climate challenges.

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Gender View all in Gender

Panel highlights pathways to improve women’s access to ICT in agriculture

CTA leads debate at the European Development Days in Brussels.

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Engaging women in ICT solutions for agriculture

CTA launches VALUE4HER, to bring women together

Nutrition View all in Nutrition

An empowered woman means an empowered community

Women are key to ensuring food and nutrition security. They mainly manage the households – and have the power of deciding on food. By empowering them we can ensure that entire families and communities get a nutritious diet.

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in Spore

Strengthening nutrition and local markets in Haiti

by Alex Miller

Mapping value chains for healthier diets and higher revenues

Women entrepreneurs View all in Women entrepreneurs

Pitch AgriHack seeks to promote greater engagement of young women

CTA has launched ‘Pitch AgriHack 2018’ a competition to support young agricultural entrepreneurs (agripreneurs) build viable businesses and boost innovation for a more sustainable agricultural sector. Winning innovations will be awarded up to €15,000, as well as mentoring and networking opportunities.

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in A year in review 2017

Improving nutrition in the Pacific

Growing African agribusiness through peer learning

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Joachim von Braun: The future of rural innovation

Professor Joachim von Braun, co-chair of the Malabo Montpellier Panel and co-chair for an international advisory group to the ‘One World – No Hunger’ conference, which is to be held in Berlin from 27-28 April 2017, highlights the importance of…

in Interviews

Outcomes of the 2nd Pacific Agribusiness Forum

The 2nd Pacific Agribusiness Forum on Linking the agrifood sector to the local markets for economic growth and improved food and nutrition security, held in Samoa was organized also as part of the strategic partnership between IFAD, CTA and PIPSO and…

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