AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley leading the panel discussion on "Africa Riceing : Mobilizing and applying science and complementary resources to achieve self–sufficiency in rice in Africa." at the 7th Africa Agriculture Science Week and FARA General Assembly, Kigali, Rwanda, on 14 June 2016
AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley made a presentation on “Achieving rice self-sufficiency in Africa,” which served as a basis for an in-depth discussion by a panel of speakers consisting of Mr Ade Adefeko, Vice President and Head of Corporate and Government Relations at Olam-Nigeria; Mr Pieter Grobler, Head of Land Development at Dangote Rice Limited; and Mr Busuyi Okeowo, Deputy Team Leader at Growth & Employment in States (GEMS 4), Nigeria.
The panel discussion was organized as part of the Third Edition of the Agra Innovate West Africa Conference, on 23 November 2016 in Lagos, Nigeria, with support from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and the Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG).
Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation on "Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice): A CGIAR research center and pan-African association of member countries" to the World Bank delegation from Côte d'Ivoire led by Mr Pierre Laporte, World Bank Country Director for Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Togo based in Abidjan, visited AfricaRice headquarters on 15 July 2016. The other members of the delegation were Mr Abdoulaye Touré, Lead Agricultural Economist and Task Team Leader of WAAPP-World Bank (Africa Bureau); and Mr Taleb Ould Sid Ahmed, Senior Communications Officer. Mr Hiroshi Hiraoka, Senior Agriculture Economist, AFTA2, World Bank and member of the Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) Steering Committee also accompanied the delegation.
AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley leading the panel discussion on "Africa Riceing : Mobilizing and applying science and complementary resources to achieve self–sufficiency in rice in Africa." at the 7th Africa Agriculture Science Week and FARA General Assembly, Kigali, Rwanda, on 14 June 2016
AfricaRice Director General Dr Harold Roy-Macauley made a presentation on “Achieving rice self-sufficiency in Africa,” which served as a basis for an in-depth discussion by a panel of speakers consisting of Mr Ade Adefeko, Vice President and Head of Corporate and Government Relations at Olam-Nigeria; Mr Pieter Grobler, Head of Land Development at Dangote Rice Limited; and Mr Busuyi Okeowo, Deputy Team Leader at Growth & Employment in States (GEMS 4), Nigeria.
The panel discussion was organized as part of the Third Edition of the Agra Innovate West Africa Conference, on 23 November 2016 in Lagos, Nigeria, with support from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) and the Nigeria Agribusiness Group (NABG).
Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation on "Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice): A CGIAR research center and pan-African association of member countries" to the World Bank delegation from Côte d'Ivoire led by Mr Pierre Laporte, World Bank Country Director for Côte d'Ivoire, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Togo based in Abidjan, visited AfricaRice headquarters on 15 July 2016. The other members of the delegation were Mr Abdoulaye Touré, Lead Agricultural Economist and Task Team Leader of WAAPP-World Bank (Africa Bureau); and Mr Taleb Ould Sid Ahmed, Senior Communications Officer. Mr Hiroshi Hiraoka, Senior Agriculture Economist, AFTA2, World Bank and member of the Coalition for African Rice Development (CARD) Steering Committee also accompanied the delegation.
Each “growing degree day” spent at a temperature above 30°C decreases yields by 1 percent under optimal (drought-free) rainfed conditions.Southern Africa faces the risk of more severe and protracted droughts and periods of extremely low and extremely high rainfall could become more common as temperatures increase from 2-4°C
3rd Africa Rice Congress
Theme 4: Rice policy for food security through smallholder and agribusiness development
Mini symposium1: Trade policies to boost Africa’s rice sector
Author: Kuku-Shittu
Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation on "Global research partnership efforts: tackling food and environmental challenges in sub-Saharan Africa" at the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) Side Event organized by the World Bank on the “Future of Food in sub-Saharan Africa: Reviewing progress, charting next steps” held in Nairobi, Kenya, 26 August 2016.
3rd Africa Rice Congress
Theme 5: Innovation systems and ICT tools for rice value chain
Mini symposium 4: Making science work: building innovation systems
Author: Berlin
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Presented by Dr Amadou Beye, Seed Specialist,
Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
Research Program Genetic Gains (RPGG) Review Meeting 2021: Building sustainab...ICRISAT
Developing market–oriented seed production and delivery systems through PPP. Enhancing linkages among actors of multi-stakeholders’ Platforms along seed and commodity value chains, varieties prioritization for commercialization. Developing business cases. Seed Revolving Fund Initiative, Youth Engagement and Gender Inclusion in Tanzania.
Utilization of Value Chain Analysis in the Livestock Development Sectorcopppldsecretariat
Presentation from the Livestock Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG) Meeting 2010. 4-5 May 2010 Italy, Rome IFAD Headquarters.
The event involved approximately 45 representatives from the international partner agencies to discuss critical needs for livestock development and research issues for the coming decade.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
Trends in cassava trade and some thoughts on policy affecting thisCIAT
And what this means for cassava value chains around the world)
Presentation at the Cassava Value Chains Workshop
CIAT, Cali, Colombia. 24-26 August 2016
Speaker: Simon Bentley
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Presented by Dr Harold Roy-Macauley
Director General, Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
Each “growing degree day” spent at a temperature above 30°C decreases yields by 1 percent under optimal (drought-free) rainfed conditions.Southern Africa faces the risk of more severe and protracted droughts and periods of extremely low and extremely high rainfall could become more common as temperatures increase from 2-4°C
3rd Africa Rice Congress
Theme 4: Rice policy for food security through smallholder and agribusiness development
Mini symposium1: Trade policies to boost Africa’s rice sector
Author: Kuku-Shittu
Harold Roy-Macauley's presentation on "Global research partnership efforts: tackling food and environmental challenges in sub-Saharan Africa" at the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) Side Event organized by the World Bank on the “Future of Food in sub-Saharan Africa: Reviewing progress, charting next steps” held in Nairobi, Kenya, 26 August 2016.
3rd Africa Rice Congress
Theme 5: Innovation systems and ICT tools for rice value chain
Mini symposium 4: Making science work: building innovation systems
Author: Berlin
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Presented by Dr Amadou Beye, Seed Specialist,
Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
Research Program Genetic Gains (RPGG) Review Meeting 2021: Building sustainab...ICRISAT
Developing market–oriented seed production and delivery systems through PPP. Enhancing linkages among actors of multi-stakeholders’ Platforms along seed and commodity value chains, varieties prioritization for commercialization. Developing business cases. Seed Revolving Fund Initiative, Youth Engagement and Gender Inclusion in Tanzania.
Utilization of Value Chain Analysis in the Livestock Development Sectorcopppldsecretariat
Presentation from the Livestock Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG) Meeting 2010. 4-5 May 2010 Italy, Rome IFAD Headquarters.
The event involved approximately 45 representatives from the international partner agencies to discuss critical needs for livestock development and research issues for the coming decade.
[ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]
Trends in cassava trade and some thoughts on policy affecting thisCIAT
And what this means for cassava value chains around the world)
Presentation at the Cassava Value Chains Workshop
CIAT, Cali, Colombia. 24-26 August 2016
Speaker: Simon Bentley
Presented at the High-Level Ministerial (HLM) Conference on Rice Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 25 September 2018
Dakar, Senegal
Presented by Dr Harold Roy-Macauley
Director General, Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice)
Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) to promote legume value chains and to benef...africa-rising
Presented by Endalkachew Wolde-meskel, Tamiru Amanu, Birhan Abdulkadir and Edward Baars at the Africa RISING Science for Impact Workshop, Dar es Salaam, 17-19 January 2017
Presented by Iain Wright at the Consultation Workshop on Livestock Research for Food Security and Poverty Reduction: Opportunities and Challenges for Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 25 June 2013
CGIAR and IFAD: Sharing and Scaling up Innovations?ILRI
Presented by Thomas Randolph (ILRI), Peter Ballantyne (ILRI), Nicole Lefore (IWMI), Barbara Rischkowsky (ICARDA) at the IFAD ESA Regional Workshop, Addis Ababa, 15 November 2012
Nutrition, Sustainable Livelihoods, and Extension: Linking Agriculture, Human...Global Livestock CRSP
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Accelerating sustainable safe pork production in UgandaILRI
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The highlight of 2018 activities for development partners was the onset of the validation activities for the ACAI decision support tools. Development partner participated in the Training of Trainers and then facilitated the step down trainings at state level for project anchors in their respective states.
Following the trainings, partners established validation trials within their locales reaching a combined total of 741 new trials in 2018. In Nigeria the partners have collaborated with ACAI team on the evaluation of the different formats of the DSTs.
Partners across the two countries are set for the dissemination phase of the ACAI DSTs from 2019 by intensifying field activities and integrating learnings from ACAI into their work plan.
Small ruminant keepers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards peste des ...ILRI
Presentation by Guy Ilboudo, Abel Sènabgè Biguezoton, Cheick Abou Kounta Sidibé, Modou Moustapha Lo, Zoë Campbell and Michel Dione at the 6th Peste des Petits Ruminants Global Research and Expertise Networks (PPR-GREN) annual meeting, Bengaluru, India, 28–30 November 2023.
Small ruminant keepers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards peste des ...ILRI
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Presentation by Silvia Alonso, Jef L. Leroy, Emmanuel Muunda, Moira Donahue Angel, Emily Kilonzi, Giordano Palloni, Gideon Kiarie, Paula Dominguez-Salas and Delia Grace at the Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, 16 October 2023.
Milk safety and child nutrition impacts of the MoreMilk training, certificati...ILRI
Poster by Silvia Alonso, Emmanuel Muunda, Moira Donahue Angel, Emily Kilonzi, Giordano Palloni, Gideon Kiarie, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Delia Grace and Jef L. Leroy presented at the Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, 16 October 2023.
Food safety research in low- and middle-income countriesILRI
Presentation by Hung Nguyen-Viet at the first technical meeting to launch the Food Safety Working Group under the One Health Partnership framework, Hanoi, Vietnam, 28 September 2023
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Reservoirs of pathogenic Leptospira species in UgandaILRI
Presentation by Lordrick Alinaitwe, Martin Wainaina, Salome Dürr, Clovice Kankya, Velma Kivali, James Bugeza, Martin Richter, Kristina Roesel, Annie Cook and Anne Mayer-Scholl at the University of Bern Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences Symposium, Bern, Switzerland, 29 June 2023.
Assessing meat microbiological safety and associated handling practices in bu...ILRI
Presentation by Patricia Koech, Winnie Ogutu, Linnet Ochieng, Delia Grace, George Gitao, Lily Bebora, Max Korir, Florence Mutua and Arshnee Moodley at the 8th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, Gaborone, Botswana, 26–29 September 2023.
Ecological factors associated with abundance and distribution of mosquito vec...ILRI
Poster by Max Korir, Joel Lutomiah and Bernard Bett presented the 8th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, Gaborone, Botswana, 26–29 September 2023.
Practices and drivers of antibiotic use in Kenyan smallholder dairy farmsILRI
Poster by Lydiah Kisoo, Dishon M. Muloi, Walter Oguta, Daisy Ronoh, Lynn Kirwa, James Akoko, Eric Fèvre, Arshnee Moodley and Lillian Wambua presented at Tropentag 2023, Berlin, Germany, 20–22 September 2023.
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Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
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We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a button
Introduction to Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) Project
1. Introduction to
Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian
Smallholders (LIVES) Project
Azage Tegegne
LIVES Research Planning Workshop
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 26-28 March 2013
2. LIVES Project
• An ILRI research for development project implemented
with IWMI, MoA and EIAR in partnership with Amhara,
Tigray, Oromia and SNNP Regional States
• Supported for 6 years by a our development partner –
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
• Focuses on challenging high value, market-oriented
livestock and irrigated crop Commodities
3. WHY LIVES?
• In line with GoE – GTP aim of transforming subsistence to
more market oriented small holder agriculture.
• Potential for scaling out of piloted innovative approaches
and interventions in large scale development project
(HABP, AGP, LMDP, SLM)
• As seen in GTP and from the lesson learned by ILRI/IPMS
and IWMI, livestock and irrigated agriculture are high
value commodities with huge potential and promise to
transform smallholders from subsistence to market-
orientation
4. Goal and Ultimate outcome
Goal
• To contribute to environmentally sustainable, enhanced income
and gender equitable wealth creation for smallholders and other
value chains actors through increased and sustained market-off-
take of high value livestock and irrigated crop commodities.
Ultimate Outcome
• Increased economic well-being for male and female smallholder
producers in 30 districts in 10 target Zones in Amhara, Oromia,
Tigray, and SNNPR through the development of livestock and
irrigated value chains
6. Intermediate Outcomes
• Increased use of improved knowledge and capacity by
male and female livestock and irrigated agriculture value
chain actors and service providers to develop gender
sensitive and environmentally friendly sustainable
market-oriented livestock and irrigated value chains.
• Increased adoption of gender sensitive and
environmentally sustainable market-oriented value
chain interventions by male and female livestock and
irrigated agriculture value chain actors and service
providers.
7. LIVES Objectives
• Introduction/adaptation of tested and new value chain interventions for
targeted value chains/areas (value chain development)
• Capacity development of value chain actors, service providers and
educational institutions (capacity development)
• Introduction/adaptation of tested and new knowledge management
interventions in support of value chain development (knowledge
management)
• Generation and documentation of new knowledge on value chain
interventions through diagnosis, action and impact research studies (action
research)
• Promotion of knowledge generated for scaling out beyond the project areas
(promotion for scaling out)
8. Project Focus
Commodities:
• Livestock (dairy, beef, sheep and goats, poultry,
apiculture) and high value irrigated crops
(vegetables, fruits, fodder)
Geographical:
• Ten (10) zones with clusters of Districts
producing selected commodities
9. Commodities by Zone
Small Irrigated
Zone Dairy (8) Beef (4) ruminant Poultry (7) Apiculture agriculture
(6) (5) (10)
Eastern Tigray x x x x
Central Tigray x x x x
West Gojam x x x x
North Gondar x x x x
South Wello x x x x
East Shoa x x x x
West Shoa x x x x
Jimma x x x x
Gamo Gofa x x x x
Sidama x x x x
10. Value Chain Development
A Long VC
G AG - Agribusiness
Fed/Reg
A F - Farmer
G
Short VC
A A A A
G G G G
District
F F F F
D1 D1 D2 D3
IPMS LIVES
11. What are the possible interventions?
• Technological: eg. seeds, animal genetics, drugs,
fertilizers, pumps, e-readers, computers
• Organizational: eg. organizational forms (public,
private, individual, cooperative, government, PLCs)
• Institutional: eg. rules & regulations, behavior, linkages
12. Capacity Development
Strengthening capacity public sector staff through
MSc/BSc education
In service training based on TOT/BDS approach: regional –
zone/district (eg)
Rapid value chain assessment to identify potential interventions -
teams
Participatory market oriented extension – extension staff
Gender mainstreaming – extension staff
Knowledge management – extension staff
Results based monitoring – specialist staff
Irrigation technologies – specialist staff
Irrigated crop value chain development – specialist staff
Livestock value chain development – specialist staff
13. Knowledge Management
Federal level
– Strengthening EAP
– National learning events/conferences
– Video production
– e-extension
Regional/zonal/District level
– Knowledge center development
– Learning events/conferences/workshops
– Study tours
– Exhibitions
– Field days
– New IT technologies
14. Research LIVES
Rapid assessment of value chains and
public support services
Value chain interventions on supply/production Knowledge Mngt and
of inputs, production/processing/marketing of capacity development
outputs interventions
Learning Learning
Diagnosis Action Impact
RESEARCH/STUDIES
15. Promotion for scaling up
• Facilitate project visits by key policy makers and donors
• Participation in government/non- government national, regional
learning platforms, conferences and workshops
• Use of mass media
• Publications
• Newsletters
• Promotional materials
• Leveraging new investment into value chain development.
16. Direct value chain beneficiaries -LIVES
Input
Output Trader/
Producer/
Producer Processor
Supplier
POLICY
Research Education
Public Support Services
17. Indirect beneficiaries
• Producers and service providers in
AGP, HABP, PSNP programs through (joint)
capacity development, field visits, learning
events.
• Producers and service providers in adjoining
districts which form part of natural clusters –
milk shed, irrigation schemes and watersheds
through learning events, capacity development
and field visits.
18. Gender in VC development
• Greater involvement of women (female
headed HH, married women) in value chain
development
– Involvement in capacity development and
knowledge management activities
– Targeting women for commodities and specific vc
interventions
– Use of women friendly technologies (modern hives,
mechanized/conservation tillage)
– Women involvement in cooperative structure and
water user groups
19. Environment in VC development
• Integrated in knowledge capacity development
and knowledge management interventions
• Assessment of environmental impact and
mitigating measures and synergies –
highlighted in livestock and crop value chain
interventions