• Democratic Republic of the Congo: Improving COPACO’s training system (1,600,000 Producers)

    • 06/09/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Corp EN, News
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    Created in 1998, the Confédération Paysanne du Congo (COPACO-PRP) is a professional organisation comprising 452 local entities: farmers’ associations, production cooperatives, farmers’ groups, cooperative unions, farmers’ federations and farmers’ production and service organisations. COPACO-PRP is a member of the Plateforme Régionale des Organisations Paysannes d’Afrique Centrale (PROPAC) and therefore of PAFO. It has a national office in Kinshasa, 18 provincial coordinators, 130 local grassroots units and 17 extension workers. COPACO represents some 1,600,000 producers (57% men and 43% women) who… +
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  • Benin: training in sustainable soil management

    • 22/05/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Benin, Corp EN, News
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    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… +
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  • Nigeria: Agronomists build capacity in crop protection

    • 05/05/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Nigeria
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    COLEAD provided training to Nigerian agronomists last year on the safe and effective use of appropriate control method for target pests. Fit For Market Plus (FFM+) recently organized a 5-day group training in Ibadan to reinforce previous lessons, share best practices, and teach effective messaging on safe pesticide use and crop protection to colleagues and members. Trainers Jimi Talabi and James Ekele employed field training workshop methodology and role-playing exercises to impart knowledge, improve understanding, and facilitate the adoption of… +
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  • CAMEROON: Small producers trained on business accounting

    • 11/04/2023
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Cameroon, News
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    COLEAD collaborates with stakeholders in agricultural value chains in countries with high potential for economic and social development to support their growth. One of COLEAD’s main activities is to strengthen the capacities of local actors through vocational training. Recently, as part of the FFM SPS programme, COLEAD organised a training session in Cameroon for the supervisory team of small producers and a few ‘pilot’ producer-dryers from the TERRESPOIR GIC. The objective of the training was to teach the producers how… +
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  • Tanzania: Avocado commercial fruit quality collective training

    • 30/03/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Tanzania
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    The Fit for Market Plus programme recently held a collective training session in Njombe, from 21st-24th March 2023, on “Avocado Commercial Fruit Quality: Good Harvest and Post-Harvest Practices.” This training aimed to enhance the capacity of twenty-three technical and extension staff, and agronomists responsible for avocado quality control in different exporting companies in Tanzania. The training covered avocado characteristics, nursery establishment, avocado maturity testing, harvesting, transport, packhouse operations, market requirements, and other relevant topics during two sessions: theoretical and practical.… +
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  • Tanzania: Zanzibar’s producers get trained in accounting

    • 03/03/2023
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Tanzania
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    As part of COLEAD’s Fit For Market SPS programme, a training on “Bookkeeping and Cost-Benefit Calculations” was organised for Zanzibar Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association (UWAMWIMA) in October 2022, at their premises on Zanzibar Island. UWAMWIMA is an association of smallholder producers from the horticultural sector in Zanzibar. The association was established in 2004 and counts over 2,000 smallholder producers as members. The smallholder producers are involved in the production of watermelon, tomatoes, pineapple, okra, papaya, cucumber, eggplant, green pepper,… +
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  • NExT Kenya: training on key GLOBALG.A.P changes

    • 20/12/2022
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Kenya, News
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    On 8 November 2022, the NExT Kenya programme trained 22 staff from horticulture producing and exporting companies on “Key changes on GLOBALG.A.P. IFA v6”. The training had a rich mix of participants, including compliance managers, quality managers, staff managing the quality management system (QMS) and internal auditors (QMS and farm auditors). The training was designed around recent version updates leading to GLOBALG.A.P IFA v6, the final version of which was published on 29 September 2022. The training aimed to update… +
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  • The Fit For Market SPS programme training in Ibadan on crop protection strategies

    • 06/12/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Nigeria
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    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… +
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  • Training of trainers in Papua New Guinea

    • 28/11/2022
    • Posted by: Sandra Borma
    • Category: Pacific
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    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… +
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  • Successful collaboration with CABI

    • 28/10/2022
    • Posted by: Gaetan Dermien
    • Category: Africa, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Caribbean, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, News, Nigeria, Pacific, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe
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    In 2020, COLEACP and CABI signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on key areas of interest concerning SPS measures around the world. The collaboration, which ultimately aims to benefit food security among countries within the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states, includes work on regulations and standards; technical assistance in the implementation of SPS measures; capacity assessment, training and e-learning; research and innovation on ways to manage SPS risks; and information sharing and communication materials for different stakeholders.… +
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