Innovation: Valorisation of pineapple waste for animal feed Innovative trials launched in Benin
- 20/12/2024
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
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In an important step towards sustainable agriculture, a trial has begun in Benin to valorise pineapple waste from the juice industry. The initiative, part of the Fit For Market Plus (FFM+) programme, aims to convert pineapple by-products into nutritious animal feed, addressing both environmental challenges and economic opportunities. Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is an important crop in Benin and plays a key socio-economic role, creating jobs, particularly for women and young people, in fruit production and processing. However, these activities generate… +BENIN: a new innovative Africa-EU university-private sector partnership for sustainable pineapple production
- 01/07/2024
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
BENIN: a new innovative Africa-EU university-private sector partnership for sustainable pineapple production. Pineapple production is at the heart of export diversification in Benin. However, the depletion of soil nutrients and high energy requirements for pineapple juice production challenge its sustainability. Within an independent research project funded by VLIRUOS (Belgian government), a pioneering project in Benin aims to address these challenges through an innovative and collaborative approach, optimising the use of underutilised pineapple crop residues and processing them through… +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… +Benin: Recycling waste as part of the pineapple industry’s agroecological transition
- 11/10/2023
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Benin, Corp EN, News
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… +Benin: training in sustainable soil management
- 22/05/2023
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Benin, Corp EN, News
COLEAD organised a collective training course on ‘Sustainable soil management’ for the partner clusters of the DEFIA programme within the framework of the Support for the agro-ecological transition of the pineapple sector in Benin project. The training brought together a dozen participants from seven organisations, all of whom were farm managers, company executives or technicians responsible for supervising producers. The participants received training on: Assessment of soil properties and determination of key elements of soil fertility Identification of practices that… +Supporting the agroecological transition of Benin’s pineapple sector
- 20/12/2022
- Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
- Category: Benin, News
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”… +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… +Support project for agro-ecological transition/DEFIA: training of Beninese relay experts
- 15/07/2022
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: Benin
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… +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
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… +Project to support the agroecological transition/DEFIA: Awareness session on organic farming
- 02/05/2022
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
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… +