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Money for Farming
latest issue ILEIA magazine 'Farming Matters'
The June 2010 theme of the 'Farming Matters' magazine is 'Money for Farming' with interesting articles on microfinance in Uganda, contract farming in Zambia, work on the missing middle in Kenya, trade finance and also credit and autonomy.
"Optimizing the Performance of Producers' Organizations"
An intensive two-week course for policy makers and rural economic development professionals
This course is especially interesting and useful for organizations and persons accompanying producers' organizations and farmer-led value chain or agribusiness cluster development. Farmer agency, organizational capacity building, farmer/cooperative entrepreneurship and voicing farmers' views and interests are some key subjects that strongly feature in the course.
The Art of Farming
May 10-12, Brussels
The Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform, the Sustainable Food Lab, the Confederation of Food and Drink Industries of the EU (CIAA), in partnership with IDH (Dutch Sustainable Trade Initiative), are hosting the Third conference on Sustainable Agriculture, "The Art of Farming".
Entering the organic export market
Agromisa Foundation and CTA have just published this practical guide for farmers' organisations, with the aim to provide practical knowledge and information on starting an organic export enterprise. The Agrodok can be ordered from Agromisa Foundation.
Expert meeting about Biodiversity
On March 18th the Hivos-Oxfam Novib Biodiversity Fund in close cooperation with IUCN NL and NatureandPoverty.net organize an expert meeting about lessons and experiences with biodiverse agricultural systems that are able to influence policies and practices.
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