Developing colead’s training offer for local markets
- 07/03/2024
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
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… +Benin, Belgium, Kenya… Facilitating inter-university partnerships to bring academic research closer to business needs
- 15/02/2024
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
As part of its ongoing efforts to promote innovation and sustainable development in the agricultural sector, COLEAD regularly strives to play its role as a liaison and catalyst for collaboration between universities and research institutes around the world. The main objective is to facilitate the raising of funds for research, which is essential for the advancement of innovative projects that respond to the sector’s sustainability challenges and opportunities. COLEAD’s Research & Innovation Brokerage department facilitates South-North partnerships between academic institutions… +First Feedback from Fruit Logistica 2024: Sustainable Agriculture for All!
- 14/02/2024
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
As Fruit Logistica 2024 has just concluded, COLEAD reflects on some of the fair’s highlights, considering its mission to serve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through its programmes, funded by donors such the EU, OACPS, AFD, ENABEL, and STDF. COLEAD was present as an exhibitor through its FFM+, NExT Kenya, and AGRINFO programmes, facilitating numerous meetings with existing and potential partner beneficiaries. Among these operational and useful appointments, some particularly resonated with the association’s vision and mission. The Importance of… +Webinar on European Regulations for Madagascar
- 02/02/2024
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
COLEAD recently organised a technical webinar at the request of MINAE (Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock) in collaboration with the Embassy of Madagascar in Brussels. The aim was to shed light on European regulations and alignment procedures for Madagascan companies. The main topics covered were: the process for adopting new European regulations how to participate in public consultations the impacts on Madagascar’s agri-food sectors coordinating stakeholders for effective public–private dialogue monitoring tools. The webinar attracted more than 80 participants from… +Access to the European market: see you at FRUIT LOGISTICA and BIOFACH 2024!
- 29/01/2024
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
Building and consolidating reliable and lasting links with the market. COLEAD will be exhibiting at the forthcoming Fruit Logistica trade fair in Berlin from 7 to 9 February, with three programme stands: Fit for Market+ (FFM+): Hall 26 C-92 NExT Kenya: Hall 26 C-90 AGRINFO: Hall 25 A-03 Existing and potential beneficiary partners of each programme are particularly welcome to meet the COLEAD team. This will also be an opportunity to share the latest news from the association and its… +Fairmiles.org: partnerships for climate justice
- 29/01/2024
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
Responding to COP28’s call for a “just transition”, the Fairmiles consortium explores an equitable approach to achieving “Net Zero”. Climate change is real and requires an urgent, radical response if we are to adapt to the significant threat it poses to our planet. However, as pressure mounts on companies to act, there is a growing risk that corporate ‘net zero’ strategies – which aim to reduce emissions by cutting imports or airfreight of food – may negatively impact less economically… +Digital technology and strategic partnerships for vocational training in sustainable agriculture
- 29/01/2024
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
Highlighting the IPPC (FAO) COLEAD collaboration in SPS e-learning. The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) is a multilateral treaty for international cooperation in plant protection. The Convention has 182 signatories. Countries wishing to become contracting parties to the IPPC should send their instruments of accession to the Director-General of the FAO. The IPPC aims to ensure coordinated and effective action to prevent and control the introduction and spread of organisms harmful to plants and plant products. This is achieved… +Workshop on strengthening accounting management for horticultural enterprises in Casamance
- 27/01/2024
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
The FFM+ Programme recently organized an intensive four-day training in Ziguinchor, from November 28th to December 1st, 2023, hosted at the BAZINESS LAND incubator. This session aimed to enhance the skills of managers of horticultural enterprises, specializing in the processing and marketing of local fruits and vegetables. Fourteen enterprise managers benefited from this reinforcement, focusing on administrative and accounting management, planning, and procedure implementation. The training covered basic accounting, including the preparation of balance sheets and income statements, as well… +New technical-marketing publications: mangoes, roots and tubers, cocoa
- 07/12/2023
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
One of the activities of COLEAD’s Market Insights department, is to translate qualitative and quantitative marketing data into market information that will help our beneficiary partners understand trends in the agri-food sector, as well as in specific market segments. Here you can find three recently published technical and marketing publications available in our COLEAD e-library. Please click on the corresponding image to access the reports: Mango-based food products: dried, fresh-cut, frozen, puree, vinegar and pickles and waste recovery products: compost,… +Caribbean: Focus on Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago
- 07/12/2023
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
The Fit for Market Plus (FFM+) programme was launched in the Caribbean Region in May 2022 (webinar) and in November 2022 through local workshops. As a result, 41 requests for support have been received to date, with 10 coming from Suriname and 17 from Trinidad and Tobago. This marks the initiation of numerous upcoming development projects. Overall, the actions planned by COLEAD through FFM+ and implemented partnerships in the region are complementary and integrated into projects aimed at facilitating better… +