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SUMMARY:Online Bootcamp Building your Inclusive Agribusiness
DESCRIPTION:The online bootcamp on building your inclusive agribusiness will take place in September 2017. 2SCALE will teach participants how partnerships and bottom-up innovations can help build a profitable and inclusive agribusiness. \n2SCALE is an agribusiness incubator aiming to improve rural livelihoods and food & nutrition security in Africa by accelerating inclusive business in agri-food industries. Through public-private partnerships\, smallholder farmers and local agribusiness work together on organizing access to inputs\, strengthening market intelligence and bargaining power\, and other interventions to make their value chains more inclusive. In this course 2SCALE will present methodologies and practical tools used to build this inclusiveness. \nTarget groups\n\nEntrepreneurs in developing countries who would like to expand or improve their business for and with low-income communities;\nRepresentatives of farmer organizations;\nStaff of intermediary organisations working with local entrepreneurs\, such as NGOs\, business development services or investors;\nStudents in business related fields who would like to learn about the potential and practicalities of being inclusive business entrepreneurs.\n\nTopics to cover\nThe participants in the online course will gain knowledge on the tools and methodologies used by 2SCALE\, such as the CASE approach\, partnership development tools and others. Practical examples from 2SCALE partnerships from the 8 different program countries will be used to illustrate how this has worked in the 2SCALE context. \nThe program will tackle the following topics: \n\nValue Creation: learn how to access local markets and create value for and with smallholder farmers and other business actors in the value chain;\nInnovations in Farming: learn how to strengthen your supply chains and increase returns to local farmers and SMEs by introducing innovations\, based on needs assessment;\nAccess to Finance: learn how to secure access to finance in your value chains by building innovative financing solutions at farmer and SME level;\nAgribusiness Clusters: learn how to effectively organise local farmers to ensure innovation and competitiveness\, to maximize local value creation and to empower farmers.\n\nLearning environment\nThese topics will be addressed in 4 interrelated modules that you can follow at your own convenience over a 4-week period. \nEach module consists of videos\, background reading material\, and an assignment. On the module level\, there is room to interact with other course participants. Experts are also active on the forum and will provide feedback on assignments. \nRegistration\nYou can register on the IB Accelerator website. You must first create an IBA account if you do not already have one. \n� \n� \n\n
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/online-bootcamp-building-inclusive-agribusiness/
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SUMMARY:Food for All Talks 05 - "Overusing Antibiotics in the Livestock Sector: something can be done!"
DESCRIPTION:The World Bank Group’s Agriculture Global Practice is organizing a series of Food for All Talks under the WBG-Netherlands Partnership “Food for All”. This fifth edition focuses on “Overusing Antibiotics in the Livestock Sector: something can be done!” and gives an overview of the best practices from the Netherlands and new “One Health” developments in Brussels (EC). The event takes place on Thursday September 28\, 2017 (12:30 – 14:00 AM EST in Washington DC || 18:30 – 20:00 pm CET in Netherlands) and can also be attended globally through WebEx (see below for details).  \nOnce an arid technical discussion for experts\, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) has emerged as a critical issue for development that will be disastrous for human and animal health\, food production and global economies. AMR is the ability of microorganisms to resist antimicrobial treatments. It is a natural phenomenon but an accumulation of factors\, including excessive and inappropriate use of antimicrobial medicines on humans and animals and poor hygiene or infection control practices\, transformed AMR into a serious threat to public health worldwide. \nIn the period 2008-2011 the Dutch policy for a substantial reduction and a more responsible use of antibiotics in the livestock industry was to address the persistent high level of antibiotic use in the livestock sector as well as public concerns about transfer of antimicrobial resistance to humans along the food chain. A discrepancy existed between the very low use of antimicrobials in Dutch health care and high use in the livestock sector. The policy has been a success. Sales of veterinary antimicrobials dropped by more than 64% between 2009 and 2016\, and antimicrobial resistance levels decreased substantially as a result of the reduced use. These results are achieved by intensive collaboration between government\, the veterinary association and stakeholders within the major livestock sectors. \nFood for All Talk\nIn this Food for All Talk\, Christianne Bruschke\, Chief Veterinary Officer of the Netherlands\, will explain the key factors behind the success and how the next step in policy development gives more emphasis on prevention rather than cure. We will explore how the sector can organize and adapt itself for success without sacrificing livestock production or farmer income\, relevance for developing countries and the linkage with a broader One Health approach. \nIn June 2017\, the European Commission adopted an EU One Health Action Plan against AMR. Lorenzo Terzi\,  Head of Section Health\, Food Safety and Consumer Affairs of the Delegation of the EU to the USA\, will explain this Action Plan\, and more specifically  how it supports the delivering of innovative\, effective and sustainable responses to AMR\, and the shaping of the global agenda in the fight against AMR through international cooperation. \nHow to join\nJoin Using WebEx: Meeting password: xpEduS5J; Meeting number: 731 748 026. \nJoin Using Phone: Toll: 1-650-479-3207; Access code: 731 748 026. \nBy Video Conference: (function(){var ml="kD%i.gebft42Ed7lwF5sr_hcCmpAa0-no63"\,mi="2RHL2;MFD682R12;;IL3?9P2RKBB>QMMM:2:M@PD?=7LO04PD52;;2;M9LD5692R12;;E7?LO02;;2;MD6?2R12;;OPPJ6O6D2;;2;MG?LCC2R12;;IL3?9PN?3O02;;2RQMMM:2:M@PD?=7LO04PD52RH2;AL2R
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