Orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) need caretakers. More than that though, they need well-prepared and well-equipped caretakers.
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Food Security
The alternate future of African farming
Where can you find the world’s largest tracts of uncultivated arable land? Africa. Where can you find the biggest and youngest workforce on the planet? Again, Africa.
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Pamoja Tuwalee MVC Project Household Economic Assessment
The Pamoja Tuwalee project empowers communities to better care for local orphans and vulnerable children, or as they are called in Tanzania, Most Vulnerable Children (MVC).
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Farmers get training centre
www.ghanaweb.com — A one-stop centre consisting of a warehouse, a training centre, an agriculture input shop, a farmer’s library and a community learning area, has been inaugurated at Atonkor in the Jasikan District of the Volta Region.
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Empowered, Mphate’s poor take on poverty alone
They are just ordinary rural people but their drive to improve their lives is as determined as the canal of water from which they draw their inspiration.
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Adaptation To Agricultural Technology Holds Prospects for Sector
www.gbcghana.com — Mr Kofi Humado, Minister of Food and Agriculture on Friday said adaptation to innovation in agricultural technology and strategic planning holds the prospects to shore up productivity and create wealth in the sector.
[More]Value chain training picks up the pace in vegetable hubs
www.avrdc.org — Eastern and Southern Africa’s peri-urban horticulture initiative (VINESA) continues to gather momentum. Two rounds of Training of Trainers took place in February 2014, with Value Chain Thinking consultant Benjamin Dent taking nearly 40 people through the three-day course in Malawi and Mozambique.
[More][Video] Africare/Mali Builds Resilience in the Koulikoro Region (en Français)
Local coverage of Africare/Mali’s Multi-Year Assistance Program in the Koulikoro region. The film focuses on the organizational activities of vulnerable communities to address food insecurity and how Africare has managed to build the resilience of these communities in response to various crises in Mali.
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Back to the Future: Africa’s Mobile Revolution Should Inspire Rural Energy Solutions
Access to power is a principal bottleneck to growth in Africa. Six hundred million Africans lack access to a power grid.
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Made in Senegal: Community Co-operatives Grow into Agribusiness Enterprises
“Ndawi Kaymor,” meaning the Youth of Kaymor, is the name chosen by a co-operative of close to 60 women from Kaymor village in West Africa’s rural Senegal.