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SUMMARY:Training course on Agribusiness development and management
DESCRIPTION:Agribusiness denotes the collective business activities that are performed from farm to the market. It covers the supply of agricultural inputs\, the production and transformation of agricultural products and their distribution to final consumers. It is one of the main generators of employment and income worldwide.\nAgribusiness is characterized by raw materials that are mostly perishable\, variable in quality and not regularly available. The sector is subject to stringent regulatory controls on consumer safety\, product quality and environmental protection. This training is intended to introduce the participants to agricultural production and marketing as means to sustain their livelihoods. \nWho should attend?\nThis one-week course is intended for various actors in the Agriculture Extension (Agricultural extension officers\, senior agricultural officials and policy makers) working with communities\, in governments\, funding agencies\, Research organizations and non-government organizations among others for Agriculture support activities and other Development programmes. \nLearning Objectives \nBy the end of the course\, learners will be able to: \n\nUnderstand the nature of agribusiness products\nGain knowledge on operations planning and management in agribusiness\nGain insight on the macroeconomic forces affecting agribusiness development and their impacts\nGain skills on of agribusiness development as a source of livelihood\nGain knowledge on farm income and investment analysis\nUnderstand means of handling agribusiness products to minimize post-harvest losses\nGain skills on agricultural marketing\nGain knowledge on technological skills applied in agriculture\n\nTopics to be covered\nAgribusiness Development Planning \n\nOverview of rural agribusiness development\nNature of agribusiness products\nProduction resources\n\nAgricultural Marketing \n\nAgricultural marketing concepts\nFarm marketing objectives and strategies\nTarget marketing\nMarket research\nManaging marketing\n\nOperation Planning and Management \n\nProduction planning and budgeting\nValue-added product processing\nAppropriate post-harvest technology\nAgribusiness contracting\nAgricultural cooperatives\, credit and financing\nFarm income and investment analysis\n\nAgribusiness Extension Techniques \n\nTraining needs and contents identification\nSelecting training methods and techniques\nPlanning and implementation of extension programs\n\nMacroeconomic Forces Affecting Agribusiness Development and their Impacts to Agribusiness \n\nPolitical-Legal forces\nSocial-Cultural forces\nTechnological and Economic force\n\nIntroduction to Development Technologies in Agribusiness \n\nData analysis in Agribusiness\nICT in Agriculture\nGIS and Remote Sensing application in Agriculture\nMonitoring and Evaluation in Agriculture\n\nMethodology\nThe instructor led trainings are delivered using a blended learning approach and comprises of presentations\, guided sessions of practical exercise\, web based tutorials and group work. Our facilitators are seasoned industry experts with years of experience\, working as professional and trainers in these fields. \nAll facilitation and course materials will be offered in English. The participants should be reasonably proficient in English. \nAccreditation\nUpon successful completion of this training\, participants will be issued with an Indepth Research Services (IRES) certificate. \n
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/training-course-on-agribusiness-development-and-management/
LOCATION:IRES training Centre\, Nairobi\, Kenya
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151121
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SUMMARY:Scaling Social Business in East Africa - Symposium 2015
DESCRIPTION:The regional symposium on scaling social business in East Africa gives insight into and potential solutions for the financial and organisational challenges that many entrepreneurs in East Africa are facing today.  The focus will be on agriculture\, education\, health and environment. \nA social business differentiates from a ‘regular’ business by aiming for social impact as much as financial profit. Impact investing is growing in popularity while change makers dare to include economic return in their initiatives. But how do promising impact businesses make the step to a mature enterprise that still has social impact? And when does a social enterprise become an interesting incentive for investors? This first regional East Africa symposium gives insight into and potential solutions for the financial and organizational challenges that many entrepreneurs in East Africa are facing today. \nThe event serves as a platform to share best practices as well as common bottlenecks and challenges. A lineup of thought-provoking and interactive sessions including debates\, panel discussions and workshops will create an important forum at which entrepreneurs and investors can arrive at better ways of cooperation and foster greater understanding to achieve common goals and objectives. \nSpecial attention will be given to examining the struggles of social enterprises to attract timely and sufficient funding\, and to the challenges faced by investors to identify suitable investment opportunities for short and long term portfolios. Through interactive dialogue between relevant East African stakeholders\, we aim to generate new ideas to identify and overcome existing hurdles. \nThe event is hosted by ICS\, a Dutch non-profit organisation\, and Ka Tutandike Uganda\, a child-focused community based organisation\, in partnership with Ashoka East Africa\, INSEAD\, Kulika Uganda\, Royal African Society & British Council Uganda. \nPlease visit the SSBE website to register and for more information on the agenda\, speakers\, field visits and venue. \n
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/scaling-social-business-in-east-africa-symposium-2015/
LOCATION:Sheraton Hotel\, Ternan Avenue\, Kampala\, Uganda
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151120
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SUMMARY:Wicked World - Bee Collective session
DESCRIPTION:On November 20\, 2015\, the Bee-Collective is organizing the Bee Collective Festival. The F&BKP is supporting and co-orginazing a Wicked World – Bee Collective session in Nairobi\, Kenya. The session “Potato losses\, Value chain efficiency and Food security” is organized together with Wicked Problems Plaza and the Postharvest Network and forms part of the Bee Collective Festival (by invitation only). \nBee Collective Festival\nThe Bee Collective Festival will address different wicked problems on several locations all over the world and a new organization form (Pop Up Company) will be set up to start acting upon these wicked problems. \nThe new ideas defined during the different sessions will be taken on by the Bee Collective Swarm\, a network of people in and around Bee Collective. This Swarm can turn the ideas into social businesses which are organized according the model of a Decentralized Collective Organization (DCO)\, called “Pop Up Companies”. \nThe Bee Collective Swarm works in a super democratic way. Everyone who participates and takes on an active role\, has a say in the Pop Up Companies they work in and will get a share from the profits being made. People in the Bee Collective Swarm are like bees. They can spread their expertise over various Pop Up Companies and together they form a large collective Swarm intelligence. They may operate in different teams and Pop Up Companies\, using the democratic and sharing rules. \nF&BKP Wicked World – Bee Collective session in Kenya\nIn the F&BKP Bee Collective session the Wicked World Problem of potato losses in Kenya will be unraveled by a group of about 20 people with different backgrounds\, ideas\, expertise and positions. The group will be led by trained facilitators of the Art of Hosting who are using techniques based upon the Wicked Problem Plaza methodology (a methodology designed by the Partnership Resource Centre\, a department of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam). Participants in the session will together search for a common ground upon which they will start building new ideas for possible solutions. \nThe central question of the Wicked World – Bee Collective session about “The reduction of Potato losses\, and improvement of Value chain efficiency and Food security” will be: \n“How will we together re-think the potato value chain in order to\nreduce food losses and improve chain efficiency and food security?” \nThis perspective has been chosen as we know that the reduction of food losses and improvement of food security can only be realized by placing the issues in a broader context and addressed through collective action throughout the value chain. \nThe organizers aim at gathering a group of various actors throughout the potato value chain as well as all surrounding actors that impact the value chain directly or indirectly with different opinions and visions on the problem. In the ideal situation the participants give a 360 degree view on the problem. Also (social) entrepreneurs and start-ups who have the intention to start a Pop Up Company are invited. \nDuring the day all different Wicked World – Bee Collective sessions we will connected via livestream on the Bee Collective website. \n
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/wicked-world-bee-collective-session/
LOCATION:Nailab\, Bishop Magua\, Ngong Road\, Nairobi\, Kenya
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