Growing hope, from new knowledge on a new crop Rice is produced in other parts of Angola, but not in the area around Bailundo, though conditions are favourable and there is much local demand. Building on the provision of technical expertise from other organisations, CDAIS is adding capacity development of another sort, of the ‘soft
Hello, who are you? I’m Romão Hossi Cabeto, National Innovation Facilitator and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning focal person for the Seeds and Rice partnerships, since May 2017. I have an economics background, with a specialization in business management, and I’ve been working as a trainer and consultant in management-related areas. I’m a responsible, dedicated and
Hello, who are you? I’m Zeferino de Oliveira José Konda, National Innovation Facilitator for the Planalto Seeds partnership. My connection with CDAIS began in May 2017, when I was invited to participate in a training course, with the objective of selecting some people to replace two National Innovation Facilitators that were about to leave the
Hello, who are you? I’m Juliana Néne Sacamia, National Innovation Facilitator for the Rice partnership. I have a bachelors degree in Economics, with a specialization in business management. I also have been trained in administrative management. I did a volunteer internship in the non-governmental organization World Vision in the Terra project, and I have already
From knowing needs to sowing seeds “CDAIS is interesting for us because it is improving how we operate”, explains Francisco Venda, president of the Sementes do Planalto seed cooperative based in Bailundo. “We work with many partners, and the new skills have proved invaluable.” Since 2016, CDAIS has been working with this group, helping them
“Of course we have problems, but we have learnt to see them as positive problems“ “When I first heard about the CDAIS project two years ago, I knew immediately that it was just what our group of farmers was looking for” explains Edgar Somacumbi. “We have land, seeds, tractors and all the equipment we want,
On 21 February 2018, a second CDAIS capacity development workshop was held at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in José Eduardo dos Santos University, in Huambo, central Angola. The workshop was attended by 34 participants, including the National Innovation Facilitators, the Country Project Manager, the Agrinatura Focal Point, many actors from the three innovation partnerships
The CDAIS project, implemented in America Central by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) as the Agrinatura representative and the FAO, organised a workshop around Facilitation of Innovation Processes, 5-9 February 2018, Guatemala City. Participants to the workshop were a group of 25 facilitators who accompany the different innovation partnerships: beans, potatoes, cocoa and
Organic certification takes root, thanks to everyone working together “Thanks to the money I earn from producing organic vegetables, this helps with the costs of schooling my children. I also feed my family with healthy food, and don’t buy any vegetables at the market anymore” says Clarisse Ilboudo, a farmer in the Koubri women’s group,
The CDAIS Bangladesh team visited the new executive chairman of the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council – the CDAIS national executing agency – today to brief him about the project and its activities. The team said goodbye to Dr Mohammed Shahjahan, who is retiring from his role as national project coordinator, and welcomed the new NPC,