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SUMMARY:Course: 'Market access for sustainable development'
DESCRIPTION:Today\, markets are increasingly seen as a good instrument for poverty reduction and sustainable development. However\, market failures and shortcomings often diminish the desired impact on poverty. This international course shows participants how to use markets as a tool to alleviate poverty. \nPro-poor inclusive value chain development\nOpening markets for smallholders and their products\nThis course takes market trends as a given\, and market dynamics as a possible basis for sustainable development and examines the do’s and don’ts of market-led development. Participants will be challenged to find answers to the following interrelated questions: \n\nhow can smallholders effectively engage in market development?\nhow can they access markets better with their products?\n\nThese questions will be addressed in several modules. The module Market  Participation deals with the market economic dynamics\, and how to engage small-scale farmers and rural dwellers. The second module deals with all the issues a product comes across on its way to customers: the institutions that govern value chains. The third module deals with a strategic planning process and tools that can be used to develop appropriate and targeted action plans\, project proposals  and/or programmes.\nThe step-by-step development of ‘bankable’ project proposals\, that are based on a selection of participants cases\, and in which all the lessons learned will be practised and internalised\, is an integral part of the curriculum. \nCourse objectives\nUpon completion of the course you will: \n\nbe more competent in the area of market access by differentiating between issues related to market participation\, chain governance and institutional change;\nunderstand conceptual frameworks related to market development which can be used to identify pro-poor and inclusive development opportunities;\nbe able to support policymakers\, development practitioners and professional service providers in their new role as market facilitators;\nbe able to apply tools and instruments to develop market-led\, pro-poor\, inclusive and/or sustainable development interventions.\n\nTarget audience\nThe course is intended for staff of government departments\, non-government and civil society organisations\, business associations\, development agencies\, universities and colleges of higher education\, and for other professionals working in the domain of market-driven development. \n� \n� \n
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/course-market-access-sustainable-development/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC+1:20150119T080000
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SUMMARY:Future Food Hack 2015
DESCRIPTION:The Future Food Hackathon will run for 32 hours during the upcoming GODAN conference at Wageningen UR. Both the hackathon and the conference are targeted at the question ‘How to create impact with open data in Agriculture and Nutrition?’. \nAt the Future Food Hack\, coders\, developers\, designers\, business developers\, experts and scientists wondering how to create impact with Open Data in agriculture and nutrition work alongside with like minded people on data and application challenges close to the 2015 Workshop of GODAN \nFuture Food Hack offers the opportunity to explore how open data and technologies can help build a better and safer future of food. Anybody can participate. Whether you are a student at Wageningen University\, or an agricultural advisor to farmers\, a business developer or an NGO\, a designer or a coder. Challenges will be targeted at the problem of the disconnect between data supply (high end statistics\, satellite data\, etc) on the one hand and the information need of end users\, small holder farmers in particular\, on the other.  Mobile technologies are key. \nThe Hackathon will take place in the context of the 2015 workshop “Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition”\, that is is hosted by the Government of the Netherlands and organised by the Open Data Institute in the UK in collaboration with the Dutch research institute Alterra and will take place in Wageningen\, between 19-20 of January 2015. \nThe GODAN initiative on Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition was launched in October 2013 to support global efforts for making relevant data available\, accessible\, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide. GODAN focuses on building high-level institutional support for open data policies from public and private partners. The International Workshop “Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition” (Wageningen\, 19/20 January 2015) explores the different types of impact of open data and the pathways towards these impacts. \n
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/future-food-hack-2015/
LOCATION:Wageningen UR\, Aula\, Building 362 - Generaal Foulkesweg 1\, Wageningen\, 6703 BG\, Netherlands
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