Improving nutrition – from new partnerships promoting a new bean variety “Before, people were not really interested” says Lionel Ozorio, president of the ATESCATEL seed cooperative, “but CDAIS has helped to bring people together and now we see much more buy-in.” This innovation partnership is building key functional capacities amongst producer associations, and now, bringing
The CDAIS Guatemala innovation partnership on beans held the first of its intended activities on Monday 16th April in Atescatempa. A few kilometres from the El Salvador border in the dry south-east of the country, the department of Jutiapa suffers particularly from poor harvests, diets, and malnutrition, especially amongst mothers and children. In response, this
Hello, who are you? I am Oudong Keomipheth, I started working with CDAIS in September 2015. I have a major in Forest Management and Rural Development and am a rural economist with practical experiences. What are your role and responsibilities as Country Project Manager? I am CDAIS Project Manager in Lao PDR. I manage the
“Changing our way of thinking gives us better understanding to analyse problems in order to deal with them and move forward, leading to behavioural changes” Hello, who are you? I am TouLee and am 34 years old. I have a BSc in livestock science from the Faculty of Agriculture, NUOL and an MSc major in
Hello, who are you? I am Khamla Thammachak and am 39 years old. I obtained my BSc from Lao Samphanh Mitmaity Agriculture college with a major in agronomy. Currently, I work at DATEAP, and my main responsibility is as a trainer to farmer organizations and extension staff at province and district level in all provinces
Hello, who are you? I am Nikhom Chanphava. I have a MSc degree from the the Faculty of Agriculture, NUOL, with major in Sustainable Agriculture Resources Management and have worked for the Rice Research Center, NAFRI since 1991. My main responsibilities are on rice seed research, rice seed production, promoting rice cultivation techniques in Lao
Hello, who are you? I am Khamla ‘Pern’ Sengphaxaiyalath, researcher in the Economics and Rural Development Center, NAFRI since 2005. My main responsibility is to carry out research relevant to economics and development, market research, agriculture and forestry policy, and other research related to agriculture development strategies from the Lao government. What are your role
Hello, who are you? I’m Arlis Zepeda. My story in the world of agricultural innovation begins in ASOFAIL, a producer association where I started working in August 2012 as administrator of the collection centre, when the association began to work in marketing. In 2013, a proposal for an innovation project was formulated with the idea
Hello, who are you? My name is Héctor García, main facilitator of the potato niche in Honduras. I am originally from La Esperanza Intibucá in the south west of the country, the main potato production area in Honduras. I graduated as an agronomist and have 15 years’ experience in rural development working in several NGOs.
