COLEACP support to agricultural private sector in Pacific
- 11/03/2021
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News, Pacific
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On March 11, COLEACP invited horticultural stakeholders from the Pacific region’s private sector to participate in an online workshop. The participants introduced themselves, and COLEACP presented its programmes and activities, with a focus on what is planned in the Pacific in the coming weeks and months. Discussions included support for accessing markets; how to set up a sustainable commercial agriculture business model for exports to cover losses from tourism; how to obtain organic certification for products; and the use of… +IPM support – NIANDA AGRICULTURE AND TRADING COMPANY (Sierra Leone)
- 11/03/2021
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News, Sierra Leone
NIANDA AGRICULTURE AND TRADING has benefited from COLEACP’s Fit For Market programme support to analyse its current pest management system. COLEACP expert Mr Emmanuel Owusu carried out an overview of pest and disease status, and suggested solutions for the company to improve its integrated pest management. NIANDA is a Sierra Leonean company with a focus on fruit and vegetables (mangoes, passion fruit, okra, pepper, eggplant, etc.) sold on the local and export markets (fresh and frozen). Founded in 2011, the… +Dominican Republic: JAD-COLEACP webinar 3 on tools and partners for exporting to Europe
- 11/03/2021
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Caribbean, News
COLEACP is collaborating with the Dominican Agroenterprise Board (Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana, JAD) to present a webinar series on market access for processed products in the pineapple, mango and avocado sectors. The webinars are part of the CALIFRUP project, “Quality enhancement for the development of MSMEs in the processed fruit value chain”. The third webinar, on 10 March, emphasised the importance for exporters and processor of figuring out from the start the type of market they want to conquer. This strategy… +Team Europe partners with Equity Bank to support Kenyan business and agriculture amid Covid-19
- 10/03/2021
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Kenya, News
The European Union (EU) and the European Investment Bank (EIB), working together as Team Europe, are providing €120 million (KES 15.8 billion) of new support for Equity Bank to enhance financing for Kenyan companies most impacted by the Covid-19 crisis (European Commission press release, 3 March). The financing package will support access to finance under appropriate conditions for Kenyan SMEs, including in the agriculture sector, through €100 million loans from the EIB to Equity Bank and €20 million of EU… +Support for NPPOs: Banana fusarium wilt TR4 in West Africa
- 10/03/2021
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, News, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
On 9 March, COLEACP and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held a webinar with the FAO-led World Banana Forum: “Banana fusarium wilt TR4 – an overview of distribution and impact, and the essential biosecurity measures needed for West Africa”. TR4 is an aggressive strain of banana fusarium wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense tropical race 4), one of only six strains that attack Cavendish bananas. If unchecked, TR4 can wipe out an entire plantation. The meeting gave an… +Women bear the fruits of success!
- 08/03/2021
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Kenya, News, Nigeria
For International Women’s Day 2021, COLEACP is celebrating women’s achievements in Kenyan horticulture. Women entrepreneurs – as farm owners, input suppliers, service delivery enterprises, and running processing and export businesses – contribute to local, national and global economies, with significant impact on poverty reduction, job creation and the well-being of rural communities and society as a whole. PURITY NAISHO is a founding director of Interveg Exports EPZ Limited, a family-owned business. She is also the current vice chair of the… +International Women’s Rights Day 2021
- 08/03/2021
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Africa, Caribbean, News, Pacific
Celebrate with PAFO and COLEACP women innovations in the agrifood sector! Women still face too many challenges in finding jobs in the formal economy or starting and developing businesses, due to insufficient conducive policies and normslow rates of land ownership, as well as access and control over resources and limited access to credit. However, women are a significant entrepreneurial force as owners of farms, input supply stores, service delivery businesses, and processing and export firms whose contributions to local, national,… +Awareness-raising for operators in the pepper sector
- 03/03/2021
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Cameroon, News
As part of COLEACP’s STDF-funded project to improve the SPS quality of Penja pepper in Cameroon to facilitate access to international markets, the project’s national coordinator has been organising last week awareness-raising meetings in the different production basins. These meetings aimed to inform the different actors (producers, nursery, etc.) about past and future activities. Many training sessions are planned to train these operators on good SPS practices for the production and processing of Penja pepper. Awareness-raising sessions are organised throughout… +AGROSEAL LTD (Ghana) – implementation of a quality management system
- 27/02/2021
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Ghana, News
AGROSEAL LTD is currently receiving COLEACP Fit For Market support to implement a quality management system that complies with national and international requirements. This collaboration includes capacity building and support for the Agroseal team to develop a procedures manual. Agroseal is a Ghanaian agricultural trading company with a focus on fresh fruits and vegetables (pineapple, orange, okra, mango, etc.), which aims to empower smallholder farmers through innovation and technology to gain reliable access to higher-end markets, increasing incomes and reducing… +Uganda: Agricado Farms gains certification
- 27/02/2021
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News, Uganda
Agricado Farms’ 1-year action plan leads to GLOBALG.A.P. certification A year’s effort by the Agricado Farms team in collaboration with COLEACP’s Fit For Market programme has resulted in the company’s achievement of GLOBALG.A.P. certification (Option 1 – Single Producer Certification). Confirmed following an audit in January 2021, this certification will have a major positive effect on the company’s ability to access international high-end markets. Agricado Farms Uganda Ltd is a new fresh fruit and vegetable company located in Kampala, Uganda.… +