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  • Madagascar: Assessment of SAHANALA’s quality management system and FSSC 22000 standard’ s training

    • 16/08/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Corp EN, News
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    To address the increasing request for dried ginger and improve current practices, SAHANALA has received support from COLEAD as part of its Fit for Market SPS programme. The aim was to establish a sanitary quality management system to obtain Food Safety System Certification (FSSC) 22000 certification for ginger processing. The FSSC 22000 standard provides a certification model that ensures food safety standards and processes throughout the food supply chain. The first step of the mission, overseen by an expert from… +
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  • 2022 COLEAD Annual Report: “Agricultural production and trade play a crucial role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals”

    • 13/07/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: ACP EN, Corp EN
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    2022 has been a year of transformation for our association: new name, new statutory purpose, and the launch of new programmes which expanded the sectoral and geographical scope of the association’s activities. The process of changing our organisation’s name was initiated two years ago in a context of continuous evolution of COLEAD’s scope of action and that of its partners. The choice of COLEAD – Committee Linking Entrepreneurship-Agriculture-Development is the result of a participatory and iterative approach carried out with… +
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  • Collective training on sustainable production systems in Benin

    • 27/05/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Benin, Corp EN, News
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    A collective training focused on “Sustainable Production Systems” took place from May 15 to 17 2023 in Allada, Benin, benefiting DEFIA’s partner clusters. Eleven participants from 11 organisations participated in this training. The main objective of the training was to present participants with a variety of “systems” that allow for an optimal balance between sufficient production, economic profitability, social acceptability, and equity, while preserving the environment. The topics covered included soil fertility restoration, biodiversity preservation, and increasing the resilience of… +
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  • Boosting intra-Africa trade: the agricultural midstream in the value chain – FFM+ in action at AASW8 side events

    • 23/05/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: ACP EN, Corp EN, News
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    As the link between the primary production of crops and the final stage of consumption, the agricultural midstream sector has a great potential to drive intra-African trade. It includes the processing, storage, and transportation of agricultural products, and it plays a crucial role in improving their quality, and making them marketable. This also contributes to reducing post-harvest losses. At the same time, intra-Africa trade has long been recognized as a crucial driver of economic growth and development for the continent.… +
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  • Health For All: the key role of agrifood MSMES and businesses

    • 07/04/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    The 75th anniversary of the International Health Day acknowledges the achievements made towards improving public health and calls for further efforts in ensuring Health for All. According to the World Health Organization, nutrition and food safety are fundamental to a healthy diet, which is essential for good overall health, well-being, optimal growth and development, and a protection against all forms of malnutrition. Within this context, the agricultural and agrifood sectors are key to promoting healthy diets and contributing to the… +
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  • PAFO-COLEAD Innovation Series Session n°12

    • 20/03/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: ACP EN
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    Four inspiring African entrepreneurs presented the range of skills that they have developed to build successful and sustainable agribusinesses in Africa during the 12th Innovations Session, organised by the Pan-African Farmers’ Organization (PAFO) and COLEAD on 15 February 2023. The online session was attended by over 215 participants from Africa, the Caribbean region and Europe. The recordings of the session are available in English, French and Portuguese on COLEAD’s YouTube channel. Link to programme : English; French; Portuguese. Link to… +
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  • Meetings with Malagasy universities and research centres

    • 28/11/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Madagascar
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    During a mission organised to launch the Fit For Market+ programme in Madagascar, a COLEACP team met with professors from the entomology and chemistry departments of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Tananarive, the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques (Agriculture and Sustainable Development Department) and the Ecole Supérieure Professionnelle Agricole de Bevalala, in order to discuss collaboration opportunities. Claire Perez, a project manager in COLEACP’s Training Department, presented COLEACP’s e-learning training platform and the e-Library to undergraduate and… +
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  • COLEACP-PAFO session on Business opportunities for African young entrepreneurs in African and European markets

    • 28/10/2022
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    On Wednesday 26 October 2022, COLEACP and the PanAfrican Farmers Organization (PAFO) co-organised a hybrid session on Business opportunities for African young entrepreneurs in African and European markets as part of the 2022 International Young Farmers Summit organised by the PAFO. The main objective of the Summit is to promote, strengthen and spread the voice of young farmers in the international arena. The joint session featured three African young entrepreneurs (see biodata) who are part of COLEACP’s wide network of… +
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  • COLEACP celebrates businesses and SMEs empowering rural women

    • 15/10/2022
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    The International Day of Rural Women, celebrated the day before the International World Food Day (on 16 October), acknowledges women’s significant contributions to agriculture food and food safety, as well as the rural economy in all regions of the world. Women represent, on average, 43 percent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries from 20 percent in Latin America to 50 percent in Eastern Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.1 They are a significant entrepreneurial force as owners of farms, input… +
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  • Madagascar: Support for the implementation of technical workflows for organic banana and passion fruit production

    • 21/09/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Madagascar, News
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    HavaMad, a Madagascan fruit processing company producing certified organic fruit juices and purees, has recently received technical support from the Fit For Market SPS programme, in the form of input from experts from both Reunion and the Tamatave Horticultural Technical Centre, Madagascar. The company wished to revise its workflow to produce passion fruit and also diversify into banana production. HavaMad also wished to continue the support initiated in February 2020 concerning the production of the passion fruit variety Galea. For… +
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