COVID-19 – Update on trade and markets in ACP countries and the EU for horticultural products
- 24/09/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: News
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Many countries have put in place special measures to reduce the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). These measures, as well as changes in food purchasing habits, have an impact on trade. In addition, concerns are mounting for the health and livelihoods of the workers who produce, deliver and sell our food worldwide. COLEACP remains on standby to keep all stakeholders in the horticultural trade informed about the latest major news on the evolution of the national, regional and international markets.… +COLEACP’s “Guides to Good Practice” development
- 24/09/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Kenya, News, Uganda
COLEACP’s Fit For Market programme is providing training to local experts in developing horticultural sector Good Practice Guides with value chain stakeholders, to support compliance with SPS standards. Local experts are benefiting from a three-part training course to master the many and varied hard and soft skills that they will need. Following on from successful completion of online training (Phase 1), yesterday we held the inception meeting for Phase 2 – training will begin next week to strengthen the experts’… +E-workshop on the implementation of an internal audit system
- 24/09/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Ghana, News, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Zimbabwe
As part of #COLEACP’s Fit For Market SPS programme, a e-workshop on “Implementation of an internal audit system” was held on 23 September. The virtual session gathered NPPO internal audit managers from Ghana, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zimbabwe. During the workshop, facilitated by the expert Samuel Muchemi with participation by COLEACP’s Regional Programme Managers, the country representatives shared their experiences and the status of their country’s system, along with challenges and the way forward. Before the workshop, the internal audit… +Pest Free Areas workshop
- 24/09/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Ghana, News
The Plant Protection and Regulatory Services Directorate (PPRSD) of MOFA, Ghana, with #COLEACP, gathered 20 stakeholders in the curry leaves sector (at the Hotel Paloma and via Zoom). This participatory workshop brought together key representatives from both public and private sectors in Ghana to create awareness about the challenges in establishing and maintaining Pest Free Areas for production and export of curry leaves. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Daniel Kwagbenu – COLEACP Liaison Officer / Senior Expert, with the… +Impacts of Covid-19 on Kenyan horticultural SMEs
- 22/09/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Kenya, News
A COLEACP survey on the impacts of Covid-19 on companies’ operations in May shows that despite all the measures taken to cut costs and secure revenues, almost three-quarters of companies responding did not financially break even in May, an increase on 64% that failed to do so in April. Many companies will struggle to survive if this situation persists. This survey, covering May 2020, was carried out among the 65 horticultural companies in Kenya that benefit from COLEACP’s technical assistance… +COLEACP’s Fit For Market programme in action in Rwanda
- 21/09/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Chillies, News, Rwanda
SPICES RWANDA Ltd is a Rwandan company which produces and exports dried African Birds Eye Chilli. The company has implemented a food safety management system to comply with good hygiene practices within its processing unit. As part of its Fit for Market programme, COLEACP is supporting the company to strengthen this system and fully apply the HACCP method (hazard analysis and control of critical points).… +Impacts of Covid-19 on horticultural SMEs in Ethiopia
- 18/09/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Ethiopia, News
COLEACP’s surveys in the early months of the pandemic aimed to gather first-hand information on the impact of Covid-19 on operators of horticultural businesses, and assess how support from COLEACP and other partners could best be redirected as a response. These were not intended to be systematic surveys – respondents were self-selecting, and the operators taking part varying greatly in size and operation. But the results provide an illuminating qualitative snapshot of the key impacts of Covid-19 to date, and… +Impacts of Covid-19 on Cameroon’s horticultural sector
- 18/09/2020
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Cameroon, News
RHORTICAM, in collaboration with COLEACP, carried out a survey of companies and cooperatives in the horticultural sector in Cameroon during May to help assess the impact of the current health and economic crisis and to identify support needs. The ten companies that participated in the survey are mainly active in several production sectors simultaneously, with pineapple being the most frequently mentioned sector. The majority of respondents export to the European market (70%), the remaining 30% being active on the local… +Impacts of Covid-19 on the horticultural sector in Rwanda
- 18/09/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News, Rwanda
COLEACP’s surveys in the early months of the pandemic aimed to gather first-hand information on the impact of Covid-19 on operators of horticultural businesses, and assess how support from COLEACP and other partners could best be redirected as a response. These were not intended to be systematic surveys – respondents were self-selecting, and the operators taking part varying greatly in size and operation. But the results provide an illuminating qualitative snapshot of the key impacts of Covid-19 to date, and… +Impacts of Covid-19 on the horticultural sector in Sierra Leone
- 18/09/2020
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News, Sierra Leone
COLEACP’s surveys in the early months of the pandemic aimed to gather first-hand information on the impact of Covid-19 on operators of horticultural businesses, and assess how support from COLEACP and other partners could best be redirected as a response. These were not intended to be systematic surveys – respondents were self-selecting, and the operators taking part varying greatly in size and operation. But the results provide an illuminating qualitative snapshot of the key impacts of Covid-19 to date, and… +