The Climate-Friendly Agribusiness Value Chains Project is aimed at enhancing competitiveness of rice value chains in Khammouane, Saravan and Savannakhet Provinces, and vegetable value chains in Vientiane Capital, Champasak and Sekong provinces.
The service is sought to provide direct technical support to the 5 grants beneficiaries under the HEARD project (Federal Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries (MoLF), International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the Ethiopian Veterinarian Association (EVA), and to the 3 regional states (Amhara, Somali and Oromia) Bureaus of Livestock and Fisheries.
The aim of this Service is to provide direct technical support to the beneficiaries (Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority, ECTA; (Oromia Coffee and Tea Authority; Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region Coffee, Tea and Spices Authority; Amhara Bureau of Agriculture and Natural Resources and, Jimma Agricultural Research Centre) under the EU-CAfE project.
On 24 April 2018 AFC Agriculture and Finance Consultants has conducted the closing workshop of the first phase of the project “Implementation and Enhancement of Agri-Insurance under the Rural Financial Sector Development Programme in Serbia”.
Like the country’s overall SME sector, the development of the country’s rural SME sector is supported through the 2012-2020 Strategy for the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises and its corresponding Action Plans, which contain a series of measures to improve the sector’s competitiveness using an innovation-based private sector development paradigm.
The objective of this contract is to reduce economic and social disparities in rural areas through the introductionof active employment initiatives and the development of micro, small and medium sized enterprises.
In March, AFC, in consortium with CA17, ADE and GOPA, signed a new contract with the European Union Delegation in Niger. The 8M€ project will last 3,5 years. AFC with its partners will support the Haut Comissariat de l’initiative 3N “Les Nigériens nourissent les nigériens - Nigeriens feed Nigeriens” (HC3N) and the EU Delegation with a technical assistance for the sectoral reform agreement, “Food and nutritional security and sustainable agricultural development (CRS-SANAD)”.
L’objectif de cette mission est d’appuyer le MAAH, et plus spécifiquement la Direction générale de la Promotion de l'Economie Rurale, pour une mise en œuvre efficiente et un suivi rigoureux du projet tout en renforçant les capacités du MAAH dans l’exécution de ses mandats. La mission du gestionnaire sera organisée autour de quatre mandats complémentaires :
Building the capacity of smallholder farmers is an important factor in raising their production and for securing sustainable employment within the agricultural sector. This is also being recognised within GIZ’s Employment Promotion Programme (EPP) in Sierra Leone, where AFC is responsible for implementing the agricultural value chains component. This is why AFC has partnered with GEFAK Gesellschaft für angewandte Kommunalforschung mbH to develop and implement an Integrated Farmers Training (IFT) programme in Sierra Leone.
Since 2009 AFC is supporting the GIZ “Market Oriented Agriculture Programme (MOAP)” in Ghana, by building the capacity of public and private service providers along the mango, pineapple, citrus and vegetable value chains in the country’s southern and middle regions. These activities have now been extended to the north-west of the country, with special focus on the mango, groundnut, rice, cashew, vegetable and soya value chains.
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