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New technology and business skills create rural jobs

CTA’s PEJERIZ project is applying technology in the field, encouraging mechanisation and coaching young entrepreneurs to create jobs in the rice value chain in Mali and Senegal. Launched in March 2018, the project is already making a difference.

Cotonou capitalises on convenience foods

Whilst addressing the problem of post-harvest losses, entrepreneur Aldred Dogue discovered the ready-to-cook vegetable market and established Africa Food Mill to meet growing demand.

Africa’s Premiere Agriculture Forum Secures $500 Million for Young Agripreneurs

Expanding the reach and benefits of digital agriculture

The Gender, Agriculture and Rural Development in the Information Society initiative was established in 2002 to support projects aimed at leveraging ICTs to enhance farmer knowledge and productivity. But did the programme help to close the gender and…

Clarifying the scale of the crisis

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Oct 14

Online course: Farm data management, sharing and services for agriculture development

Monday, 14 October 2019 – Sunday, 10 November 2019

The course aims to strengthen the capacity of farmers’ organisations, data producers and data consumers to manage, use and share data in agriculture. It aims to raise awareness of different types of data formats, data rights and applications, and to highlight how important it is for data to be reliable, accessible and transparent for innovation and development of agriculture.…

Sep 17

Agritourism policy setting workshop Grenada

Tuesday, 17 September 2019 – Wednesday, 18 September 2019

The goals and objectives of the workshop are to:Promote sustainable use of local food by the tourism industry through strengthened inter-sectoral policies.Promote linkages between the agri-fo…

Sep 4

African Green Revolution Forum 2019 - Masterclass – Blockchain for smallholder agriculture: Hype or reality?

Wednesday, 4 September 2019

The masterclass is intended as a briefing to provide the audience with an overview of the following:An idea of the breadth of applications in use which impact agriculture in Africa.The potential positive and negative effects on smallholders.Some of the initiatives being undertaken…

Jul 31

GODAN Action webinar: Data ecosystem mapping to support FAIR data principles

Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Creating a map of a data ecosystem can help us to understand and explain where and how the use of data creates value. A data ecosystem map can help to identify the key data stewards and users, the relationships between them and the different roles they play. Representing ecosystems in detailed maps can be particularly useful when contexts are complex, not well understood or not yet fully develo…

Jul 29

UAS for agriculture capacity building in Ethiopia

Monday, 29 July 2019 – Friday, 9 August 2019

Training of Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) and Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR) staff in the use of drones and related software applications in the framework of the project "Transforming Africa’s Agriculture: Eyes in the Sky Smart Techs on the…

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia