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Competition to promote agri-innovation and entrepreneurship in Ethiopia

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 8 August 2019. A Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) sponsored competition that will support Ethiopian agricultural entrepreneurs was launched yesterday with a prize fund of an estimated €35,000 (over 1 million Ethiopian birr).

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CTA awards grants to support blockchain use in agriculture across ACP

CTA has awarded four grants to support the use of blockchain in agriculture across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP).

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Untapped market for digital services to transform African agriculture worth up to €2.3 billion, new report finds

Rome, Italy, 21 June 2019. More than 90% of the market for digital services that support African smallholders remains untapped and could be worth more than €2 billion (US$2.26bn), according to a new report.

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Africa’s first online network for women entrepreneurs in agribusiness launched in Nairobi

Nairobi, Kenya, 14 June 2019. Female agripreneurs across Africa will be able to connect, network and grow their businesses thanks to the new #VALUE4HERConnect platform. More than 400 women have signed up to Africa’s first online platform for female agripreneurs, launched today at a trade fair in Nairobi.

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agriculture

Ground-breaking digital innovation sought for Pitch AgriHack 2019

Wageningen, the Netherlands April 25 2019. Pitch AgriHack, the annual competition that awards young entrepreneurs in ICTs for agriculture (ICT4Ag) is open for applications. Now in its fourth year, Pitch AgriHack is an initiative by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) that supports ICT4Ag entrepreneurs through capacity building and funding to accelerate youth employment and agricultural transformation.

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Hello Tractor and CTA launch partnership to support smallholder farmers access mechanisation

Abuja, Nigeria February 26, 2019. Hello Tractor and the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU have announced a partnership to increase smallholder farmers' access to mechanisation services and youth employment opportunities. The partnership will enable Hello Tractor to expand its services across Nigeria and Kenya to connect 5,000 smallholder farmers to mechanisation services, as well as to create jobs for youth as tractor operators and booking agents.

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Food processing

Speech by Michael Hailu, Director of CTA

The theme of this year's CWA is investment in the food and agriculture sector, and this is a critical constraint for many Caribbean producers. Marketed and distributed properly, quality fresh and value-added agrifood products can be dynamic sources of jobs and income – if only the people behind these enterprises can access the finance and business development support they need to turn them into profitable ventures.

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Investing in Food and Agriculture in the Caribbean

The theme of the 14th edition of the Caribbean Week of Agriculture Investing in Food and Agriculture in the Caribbean could not be more apt or timely. Investing in agriculture is one of the most effective ways of reducing poverty and promoting sustainability. Yet financial commitment to this sector is still inadequate in the Caribbean, as in many countries of Africa, and the Pacific, despite the promise that agriculture holds for creating jobs, incomes, food security and protecting public health.

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Farmignite: lighting a passion for agriculture

Providing the opportunity for investors to fund a farm, empower small-scale farmers and share in their returns, farmignite is helping to increase Nigeria’s farm productivity, reduce food importation, and increase revenues for farmers and investors.

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Transforming cassava wastes to wealth as a climate-change mitigation strategy in Nigeria

Cassava production and processing in Nigeria generates large quantities of hazardous wastes and residues. Aside from the environmental hazards, such wastes contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. An innovative climate-smart intervention in Nigeria is to re-use the cassava peels in animal feeds. This reduces the demand for maize for feed, creates new business opportunities from waste, reduces the hazards of the waste and reduces GHG emissions.

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Learning how trees on farm can help fulfil national climate change commitments

A condition of a request by the World Agroforestry for funding to bring delegates to the 4th World Congress on Agroforestry was that the delegates should attend training on the Nationally Determined Contributions to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. What they learnt was not only eye-opening but also life-changing.

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Harnessing synergies of crop-livestock integration for climate-smart agriculture

Integrated crop-livestock systems that provide synergies towards more resilient climate-smart agricultural production systems are possible despite the recognised competition between crops and livestock enterprises. To make this work, it is necessary to understand the trade-offs and capitalise on the opportunities provided through integration.

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livelihoods

Blockchain for agriculture: making it happen

The increasing buzz on blockchain technology has, in recent times, drawn attention to its application within the agriculture sector. The technology can be leveraged upon to improve agriculture efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, including intra-ACP business transactions and transactions between ACP and international business stakeholders.

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Policy networks reinforce climate-smart agriculture in Jamaica

Amidst growing impacts of climate change, a threat to food security and livelihoods, Jamaica is using policy networks to scale-up climate-smart approaches helping farmers to be resilient and productive in extreme weather events.

CTA is a joint institution operating under the framework of the Cotonou Agreement between the ACP Group of States (Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific) and the EU Member States (European Union). CTA is funded by the European Union.

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Competition to promote agri-innovation and entrepreneurship in Ethiopia

CTA awards grants to support blockchain use in agriculture across ACP

Untapped market for digital services to transform African agriculture worth up to €2.3 billion, new report finds

Africa’s first online network for women entrepreneurs in agribusiness launched in Nairobi

Ground-breaking digital innovation sought for Pitch AgriHack 2019

Hello Tractor and CTA launch partnership to support smallholder farmers access mechanisation

Speeches

Speech by Michael Hailu, Director of CTA

Investing in Food and Agriculture in the Caribbean

Impact Stories

Farmignite: lighting a passion for agriculture

Transforming cassava wastes to wealth as a climate-change mitigation strategy in Nigeria

Learning how trees on farm can help fulfil national climate change commitments

Harnessing synergies of crop-livestock integration for climate-smart agriculture

Blockchain for agriculture: making it happen

Policy networks reinforce climate-smart agriculture in Jamaica

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