Work advances with a recent visit by the project manager and members of the team to the three niche partnerships. Further capacity building was arranged for November, and preparations are in full swing for the ‘marketplace event. Visits to partnerships Country programme manager Fátima do Nascimento and national innovation facilitator Lito visited the three CDAIS
On the 21st and 22nd of November 2017, participants from all of Ethiopia’s five innovation niche partnerships met to discuss and agree next steps for the CDAIS coaching plan and process. “All is now clear in my mind. I have seen how the coaching plan and process has been refined and simplified, and how to
The implementing partners of CDAIS developed a serie of factsheets outlining tools and approaches to promote capacity development projects for agricultural innovation systems (AIS) that has just been released. Each factsheet includes an introduction on each of the five stages of the CDAIS cycle used and implemented by the CDAIS project. Discover the 5 factsheets!
From green to silver: diversifying and intensifying production from rice to fish farming Today, entering Trishal, Mymensingh on the road from Dhaka, one sees rows of fish ponds. One after the other, they show a massive diversification from rice to fish cultivation in recent years, and an intensification of production. The tradeoffs between green crops
“CDAIS has helped me understand better the challenges in the milk value chain, from farmer to final consumer.” In November 2016, a CDAIS capacity needs assessment of a community milk processing centre started a process that has seen clear changes in less than a year. The Burera dairy was selected as one of the country’s
“It was a marketplace of innovative ideas, with a cocktail of partners” The CDAIS ‘marketplace’ to promote agricultural innovations in Burkina Faso took place on July 6th 2017 in Ouagadougou. It was a rich event involving more than 80 people who are working directly with, or interested in working with, different partnerships. The marketplace allowed
“We can achieve change only by promoting innovative ways to learn, reflect, and work together” “I see mindset shifts being promoted by CDAIS says Gemechu Nemie, director of the Ethiopian Animal Feed Industry Association (EAFIA) and a key member of the livestock feed safety and quality innovation niche. And this is the sort of change
For its annual meeting in Laos, the CDAIS teams have prepared several posters to show recent activities and achievements in the eight pilot countries. Find each country posters at: Angola posters Bangladesh posters Burkina Faso posters Ethiopia posters Guatemala posters Honduras posters Lao posters Rwanda posters
Participants from eight countries in Africa, Asia and Central America, along with many global partners, made their way home from Laos on 23 September after an intense week of sharing their experiences and moving forward. In 2015, they were given the challenging task of putting into practice a new concept, developed some years earlier… Improving
The CDAIS team prepares to gather in Laos for its annual meeting. And several posters have been prepared to show recent activities and achievements in Burkina Faso. To download the documents, please follow the links: https://cdais.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/BKF-update.pdf https://cdais.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Poster_Achievement_Nextsteps-en.pdf https://cdais.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Poster-Marketplace-3-En.pdf https://cdais.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Stories-from-BKF.pdf