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SUMMARY:Course "Everything you need to know about sweetpotato"
DESCRIPTION:The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is organizing the 10-day course “Everything you need to know about sweetpotato”\, in partnership with CSIR-Crops Research Institute (CRI) and the International Potato Center (CIP). \nIt is a 10-day Training of Trainers course designed to provide the participants with the skills and knowledge to train others. This course has been adapted for Ghana from the original course: “Everything you ever wanted to know about sweetpotato”\, developed and implemented by the International Potato Center under the “Reaching Agents of Change” project. \nIn 2016\, as part of an AGRA-funded project\, “Development and Promotion Of Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato in Volta\,” the “Everything you need to know about sweetpotato” course will be offered at KNUST and CSIR-CRI in Kumasi\, Ghana. Its sole aim is to consolidate other efforts in promoting OFSP\, thus building capacity of national implementing agencies in Ghana and the West African region to drive uptake of OFSP. \nParticipants\nA maximum of 30 participants will be accepted to foster a conducive learning environment. This Training of Trainers (ToT) course seeks participants from organizations committed to incorporating nutritious crops into their programs. The fee for this 10-day intensive course is US$ 1350 for international participants and GH ¢ 4000 for Ghanaian participants. It covers accommodation\, meals\, course materials and souvenirs. A limited number of scholarships are available. Participants who successfully complete the course will be awarded a certificate of participation. \nInstructors knowledgeable on all aspects of the sweetpotato for health and wealth will serve as resource people\, using a hands-on approach to provide educators and trainers with the skills and knowledge in training others on all aspects of the root for profit and health.  Participants will be drawn from all regions of Ghana and beyond. \nInterested persons are invited to send an application and motivation letter by 31 st December\, 2015. Women are particularly encouraged to apply.  Participants will be drawn from all regions of Ghana and beyond. \nCourse topics\nThe specific topics that will be covered include: \n\nOrigin and importance of sweetpotato\nSweetpotato varietal selection and characteristics\nOrange-fleshed sweetpotato and nutrition\nSweetpotato seed systems\nSweetpotato production and management\nSweetpotato pest and disease management\nHarvesting and postharvest management\nMarketing and value addition\nProcessing and utilization\nGender and diversity aspects\nMonitoring of OFSP dissemination and uptake\nEntrepreneurship\n\nRegistration\nInterested persons can send an email to (function(){var ml="ned3mPtclEA4sirk0%-aoOg.DhCF2uSTf"\,mi="A3JCAL@I>1PA3HALL4C=86DA3:EKN5OEOJDM>03LJAL77BH2965LJ;KDG
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/course-everything-you-need-to-know-about-sweetpotato/
LOCATION:KNUST\, Kumasi\, Ghana
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SUMMARY:International colloquium on Global governance/politics\, climate justice & agrarian/social justice
DESCRIPTION:On February 4 and 5\, the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) will host an international colloquium on Global governance/politics\, climate justice & agrarian/social justice: linkages and challenges. The colloquium is organized by the Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS)\, a community of like-minded scholars\, development practitioners and activists from different parts of the world who are working on agrarian issues. \nThe convergence of multiple crises: food\, energy\, environmental\, climate change and finance – and its relationship to the rise of important global political economic players: BRICS countries and middle income countries (MICs) – has triggered profound agrarian and environmental transformations in the Global South and North. Old issues requiring conventional international governance interventions have persisted. New issues requiring different types of governance instruments and principles have also emerged. The character of nation-states and popular claim-making from below by ordinary villagers and grassroots organizations have been transformed.\nGlobal governance has been interpreted in various ways. The same set of international governance principles\, e.g. ‘free\, prior and informed consent’ (FPIC) can be invoked by fundamentally competing interests: by corporate interests or by poor villagers and their allies. All sectors and actors talk about ‘regulation’ and ‘transparency – but they interpret these in competing and even contradictory ways. Key state/non-state actors try to influence others\, and/but in turn are themselves influenced by the process of these multi-actor/multi-level encounters. \nIntersection of social justice and global governance/politics\nHow do we make sense of all these dynamics? What can academic researchers say that is useful to practitioners and activists – and vice versa? Our interest lies mainly in the intersection of social justice and global governance/politics – in the era of climate change and the continuing global resource rush. That is\, if one’s starting point is to seek social justice – partisan\, partial and biased in favour of the marginalized social classes and groups in various societies of the world – amidst the changing patterns of social relations partly brought about by the changes in the international political economic and ecological terrain\, then where do we locate questions of international or global governance (or politics)? What/which global governance principles\, instruments\, institutions\, and actors can be mobilized to seek\, defend\, strengthen or extend social justice – and how? What are the contentious debates\, and why does it matter for academics\, practitioners and activists to take these seriously? \nFor more information on the event\, see the ISS website.  \nRegistration is now closed but the plenary and keynote speakers will be broadcast live via ISS livestream –www.iss.nl/live \n
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/international-colloquium-on-global-governancepolitics-climate-justice-agrariansocial-justice/
LOCATION:ISS\, Kortenaerkade 12\, The Hague\, 2518 AX\, Netherlands
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