• COLEAD Annual Report 2023

    • 22/07/2024
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    COLEAD Annual Report 2023   In a global political and economic context that continues to appear threatening, we must count on the continued determination and shared will of the parties involved in COLEAD’s field of action to continue thinking and working together to contribute to the necessary transformation of agri-food systems. The issues at stake and the needs require us to be ambitious and innovative. COLEAD must continue to carry out its mission based on a multiple role, in particular… +
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  • COLEAD 2024 General Meeting

    • 22/07/2024
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    COLEAD 2024 General Meeting   COLEAD’s Annual Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) was held on 27 June 2024 in Rungis, with both face-to-face and distance participation, bringing together members from around twenty countries, including Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Cameroon, Ghana, Ethiopia, France, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the UK, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo and Zimbabwe. The event was an opportunity to share the latest news from the association over the past year and the strategic directions… +
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  • Understanding the impact of trade-related capacity building interventions

    • 19/07/2024
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    Understanding the impact of trade-related capacity building interventions   This article presents the findings of a pilot study commissioned by COLEAD in the framework of the FFM+ programme to explore the ‘spillover effects’ of trade-related capacity building interventions over the past two decades aimed at improving the export horticulture value chain in Kenya. Spillovers, understood as unintended impacts of development interventions, have been underexplored in standard project performance matrices. While some work has been done in this area by organizations… +
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  • Burton & Bamber: a Kenyan success story

    • 19/07/2024
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    Burton & Bamber: a Kenyan success story   Burton & Bamber is a Kenyan company, registered in 2015, that processes fruit into snacks and food ingredients. These include dried fruit (mainly mango) and fruit rolls, granola, orange flesh sweet potato extruded snacks and aseptic fruit purees. The company works with 500 smallholder farmers to source produce and provide access to markets for their products. Some of the farmer groups are GLOBALG.A.P. certified, while the company’s processing facilities are FSSC 22000… +
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  • Benin Senegal: an example of strengthening local expertise

    • 19/07/2024
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    Benin Senegal: an example of strengthening local expertise   COLEAD, through the FFM+ programme, supported an 8-month ICRA training course for two of its experts on the theme “Boosting agribusiness: building trust in agribusiness relationships for sustainable growth”. The training took place from September 2023 to June 2024. Through online and face-to-face sessions, individual and group practical work, personal mentoring and individual feedback, the experts were trained to Establishing and strengthening sustainable business relationships between farmers and agribusinesses, input and… +
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  • Cameroon: towards a strategic plan for the Penja pepper IGP

    • 19/07/2024
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    Cameroon: towards a strategic plan for the Penja pepper IGP   In the first half of 2024, a Cameroonian expert successfully completed the mission “Elaboration of the strategic development plan for the Groupement Représentatif de l’Indication Géographique Poivre de Penja (GR.IGPP)” under the Fit For Market Plus (FFM+) programme. The main objective was to design the plan while (i) identifying the priority services to be put in place to operationalise the plan, (ii) defining the group’s economic model and (iii)… +
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  • Technical resources for 27 educational institutions

    • 19/07/2024
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    Technical resources for 27 educational institutions   On Thursday 13th of June, COLEAD organized through the FFM+ programme a new webinar for training institutions focused on enhancing pedagogical skills and tools using COLEAD’s digital resources and network. Various COLEAD departments presented relevant e-resources such as the e-learning platform, e-library, crop protection database, skills framework, analytics and the AGRINFO platform. The webinar had a total of 44 participants representing 27 different training institutions both from the African as well as the… +
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  • Zimbabwe: “I’ve learnt a lot about training programmes”

    • 19/07/2024
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    Zimbabwe: “I’ve learnt a lot about training programmes”   From June 10th to 14th, 2024, the Fit For Market Plus programme provided an intra-organizational training to the Horticultural Development Council (HDC) and ZimTrade, two key business membership organizations in Zimbabwe. The global objective was to enhance the training capacity of HDC and ZimTrade on how to define their training offer to their members through a viable and sustainable training model. The support was delivered in two phases. First, HDC and… +
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  • The PAFO-COLEAD Partnership: results of the 2024 satisfaction survey

    • 19/07/2024
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    The PAFO-COLEAD Partnership: results of the 2024 satisfaction survey   Since 2020, the Pan-African Farmers’ Organization (PAFO) and COLEAD have been working together in a strategic partnership. This collaboration aims to strengthen fair and sustainable business linkages between smallholders, farmer groups, and agri-food Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) on the African continent. Together, they are developing joint activities to support the transformation towards sustainable and inclusive food systems in Africa. The primary goals are to promote sustainable and inclusive… +
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  • Packaging : alternatives to plastic

    • 19/07/2024
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    Packaging : alternatives to plastic   The COLEAD Market Insights department keeps an eye through the FFM+ programme, on trends and innovations at major trade shows, and one of the hot topics is sustainable packaging. Forthcoming regulatory changes are driving innovation, as seen at Fruit Logistica (Germany), Macfrut (Italy) and the recent Empack (Belgium). Discover cutting-edge alternatives to plastic such as cellulose, thermobonded packaging, laser-printed labels on produce and waterproof recyclable paper solutions, highlighting the industry’s slow but steady shift… +
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