• Benin: Recycling waste as part of the pineapple industry’s agroecological transition

    • 11/10/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Benin, Corp EN, News
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    On 13 July 2023, COLEAD led a presentation session on pineapple waste recovery solutions in Allada, Benin, for DEFIA’s partner clusters. The event brought together 14 participants from 12 organisations. The session focused on a mapping of local solutions for recovering production waste and co-products from the fruit and vegetable sectors. The mapping also included an assessment of the volumes and types of co-products/waste generated by each cluster. As a result of this work, the mapping team was able to… +
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  • Supporting the agroecological transition of Benin’s pineapple sector

    • 20/12/2022
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Benin, News
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    As part of the project “Support to the agroecological transition of the pineapple sector in Benin”, COLEACP, with the help of a Beninese expert, is evaluating the performance of more than 400 producers and 15 processors with the goal of developing a personalised transition. Specifically, this project aims to carry out a three-step intervention: Prepare and conduct a training session on the theme “Assessment, reduction and recovery of waste from the pineapple sector: identifying and assessing the quantity of waste”… +
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  • Support project for agro-ecological transition/DEFIA: training of Beninese relay experts

    • 15/07/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Benin
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    As part of the project to support the agro-ecological transition of the pineapple sector in Benin, COLEACP organised a training for trainers’ session from 27 June to 9 July 2022 in Cotonou. Sixteen experts took part in the session, which is the second of a three-phase training cycle aiming to strengthen the skills of relay experts on technical and pedagogical subjects so that they can subsequently support DEFIA’s partner groups in their agro-ecological transition projects. This second session aimed to… +
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  • Agro-ecological transition support project/DEFIA: data collection from producers with the FAO TAPE tool

    • 07/07/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Benin, News
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    In the framework of the implementation of the project “Support to the agro-ecological transition of the pineapple sector in Benin» and following the training of the interviewers on the FAO TAPE tool, the data collection phase with a sample of 300 pineapple producers who are members of DEFIA’s partner groups took place between 2 and 30 June 2022. As a reminder, this activity was organised with the aim of identifying current practices and development potential in terms of agro-ecological practices… +
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  • Project to support the agroecological transition/DEFIA: Awareness session on organic farming

    • 02/05/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: News
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    Suite au lancement en février du projet “Appui à la transition agroécologique de la filière ananas au Bénin” [qui fait partie du programme DEFIA (Développement de l’Entreprenariat dans la Filière Ananas) géré et financé par Enabel], plusieurs groupes ont exprimé leur intérêt à bénéficier de l’appui du projet. Le 12 avril, une séance d’information et de sensibilisation a donc été organisée pour ces groupes afin de discuter des fondements, des règles et principes, des exigences et des contraintes de l’agriculture… +
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  • Workshop to launch the project “Support to the agroecological transition of the pineapple sector in Benin”

    • 10/03/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: ACP EN, News
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    On 23 February, COLEACP organised a workshop in Cotonou to launch the project “Support to the agroecological transition of the pineapple sector in Benin”, within the framework of the DEFIA Programme (Development of Entrepreneurship in the Pineapple Sector) managed and financed by Enabel, the Belgian development agency. This 18-month project aims to enable operators in the pineapple value chain in Benin to begin a gradual transition to agroecology, while meeting the requirements of local, regional and international markets. The workshop,… +
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  • Just published: COLEACP Annual Report 2020

    • 05/08/2021
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Africa, Caribbean, News, Pacific
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    The Annual Report 2020 of COLEACP and its programmes is now online here. The report focuses on the digitalisation of our activities. In 2020 Covid-19 made our daily lives more fragile – but also accelerated our activities, our local anchoring, and our use of digital tools. We have continued to deliver the planned support to our partners across the OACPS countries by helping to mitigate the negative impacts of Covid-19 on their production and marketing of horticultural products. “The Covid-19… +
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