IICA-COLEACP Caribbean Agrifood Business Session n°7
- 20/12/2022
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Caribbean, News
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On 23 November 2022, during the 7th Caribbean Agrifood Business Session organised by IICA and COLEACP, several Caribbean companies shared their journey to successfully entering lucrative markets. The online session was attended by over 180 participants from the Caribbean region, Africa and Europe (agenda of the session; spearkers’ biodata). The recording of the session is available on COLEACP’s YouTube channel. Norman McDonald presented the Jamaican company Canco Ltd. and its brand, Linstead Market, of high-quality products such as canned ackees,… +Companies promoting the circular economy and reducing food waste
- 20/12/2022
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Africa, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, News, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
On 28 November 2022, during the 11th Innovations Session organised by the PAFO and COLEACP, inspiring African companies demonstrated how their businesses based on the circular economy contribute to reducing food loss and waste (agenda ; speakers’ biodata). The online session was attended by over 170 participants from Africa, the Caribbean region and Europe. The recording of the session is available on COLEACP’s YouTube channel. The growing global population requires increased food production levels to address food and nutrition security… +NExT Kenya reviews food safety culture
- 20/12/2022
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Kenya, News
In October, the NExT Kenya programme worked with AAA Growers, a Kenyan exporter of fresh fruits and vegetables, to facilitate an expert review of the food safety culture and assess upcoming food safety requirements. AAA Growers hopes to implement a pro-active approach to better understand food fraud, food defence and food safety culture. This will be done through specialist training on each topic and reviewing and updating the current plans and risks/vulnerabilities associated with primary production and post-harvest handling of… +Suriname strengthens SPS systems
- 20/12/2022
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: News, Suriname
Following a one-day workshop in Paramaribo on COLEACP’s new Rapid SPS Assessment Tool (R-SAT) in May 2022, COLEACP is supporting via the FFM SPS programme, two key interventions designed to strengthen the national SPS systems of Suriname: Review and update the legislation of Suriname for consistency with the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) and provisions for establishing a Parastatal NPPO An expert review of the current plant health law of Suriname has begun, to ensure consistency with the IPPC legislation… +Information session on the new EU Regulation on organic production and labelling of organic products (EU 2018/848)
- 15/12/2022
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Caribbean
The Fit For Market SPS programme, in collaboration with the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), organised an information session specifically designed for the Dominican Republic on the new EU Regulation on organic production and labelling of organic products (EU 2018/848), and its implications for the certification of producer groups. This event took place online on 1 December 2022. The session was opened by Escipión Joaquin Oliveira Gomez, Assistant Secretary General, Sustainable Economic Transformation and Trade, Secretariat of the Organisation… +October 2022, review of the COLEACP mission to Cameroon
- 12/12/2022
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Cameroon
A team from COLEACP – Margaux Muyle (Senior Project Officer), Dorothée Vandeleene (Project Officer – Training Department) and Gisèle Mizero (Project Officer – Technical Assistance) – visited Cameroon from 5 to 14 October 2022 for the closure of the “Project to improve the sanitary and phytosanitary quality of Penja pepper to promote its access to international markets” (STDF/PG/593). The COLEACP team took this opportunity to review the actions carried out with the existing partner-beneficiaries of the STDF SPS programme, to… +The Fit For Market SPS programme support to strengthen the national SPS systems of Suriname
- 08/12/2022
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Caribbean
On 24 May 2022, the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries (Ministerie van Landbouw, Veeteelt en Visserij – LVV) of the Republic of Suriname, in collaboration with COLEACP and CAHFSA, organised a 1-day workshop in the capital Paramaribo entitled “Eggplant R-SAT Validation”. The workshop was attended by key representatives from the public and private horticulture sector. During the workshop, experts presented the results of the application of the R-SAT tool to the SPS control system and identified priority activities.… +The Fit For Market SPS programme training in Ibadan on crop protection strategies
- 06/12/2022
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Nigeria
From 3 to 6 October 2022, the Fit For Market SPS programme organised training in Ibadan, Nigeria, on “Crop Protection Strategy” for technical managers, extension staff, agronomists, production managers and staff involved in making crop protection decisions at primary production level. The training combined theory with practice and gathered together 20 participants from 14 Nigerian companies. At the end of the training, the participants were able to list and identify major crop pests, describe crop protection methods, choose the most… +Training of trainers in Papua New Guinea
- 28/11/2022
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Pacific
The Fit For Market SPS programme has organized a training of trainers for Hargy Oil Palms Ltd (HOPL). The objective of the training was to build on the technical and pedagogical skills of HOPL’s trainers to improve the training provided to the growers. Within the framework of its social responsibility policy, HOPL works on improving the livelihoods of smallholders by helping them increase their income and improve nutrition by growing fruit and vegetables. A group of ten extensionists was first… +COLEACP attending the 6th African Diaspora Agrofood Forum in Brussels
- 14/11/2022
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Africa, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, News, Senegal
On Friday, 21 October 2022, COLEACP took part in the 6th African Diaspora Agrofood Forum (ADAF), organised by The Food Bridge vsw and hosted by the Brussels city hall. This annual forum brings African Diaspora entrepreneurs, policymakers and expert in the African agrifood sector together to highlight the latest trends and potentials for growth in the agrifood sector. COLEACP contributed to the organisation of the event through the FFM SPS and FFM+ programmes funded by the European Union within the… +