{"id":2116,"date":"2017-03-13T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T15:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/pmil\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2017-03-13T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T15:51:07","slug":"ifdc-adds-farmer-to-market-training-in-accra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/2017\/03\/ifdc-adds-farmer-to-market-training-in-accra\/","title":{"rendered":"IFDC adds Farmer-to-Market training in Accra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Fertilizer Development Center will hold its seventh<\/p>\n<p>Linking Farmers to Markets workshop in Accra from 15-19 May. The cost of the program is $1,650 until 17 April and $1,800 afterward.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>The successful training program has been conducted in both English and French in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Who should attend? <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Producer organizations and trade associations.<\/li>\n<li>Government officials dealing with formulating and implementing agricultural and trade policies.<\/li>\n<li>Service providers such as financial institutions, insurance companies, transporters, mobile phone services, ICT platform solutions, market information services, business development services, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Agribusinesses dealing with farmers: processors, exporters and importers, agro-dealers, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Representatives of national and international organizations involved in funding agricultural development and enterprise projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What happens at the workshop? Participants:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Discuss the theory behind the different principles and components of farmer-to-market linkages and draw on lessons and best practices of IFDC and partner organizations in Africa;<\/li>\n<li>Show how to make theory successful in practice through well-selected case studies;<\/li>\n<li>Improve capacities to analyze farmer-to-market linkages within the context of specific agricultural environments and their input and output markets;<\/li>\n<li>Develop project(s) proposals which incorporate principles that allow for effective farmer-to-market linkages; and<\/li>\n<li>Create a network to facilitate future exchanges, joint proposal development, mainstreaming of farmer linkages approaches and long-lasting, professional relationships.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eiseverywhere.com\/file_uploads\/c8fdd6d94de7c1e96c98894e9d9de104_Brochure2017LFtMinAfricaasofFeb62017.pdf\">event description page<\/a> to learn more or directly to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eiseverywhere.com\/ereg\/index.php?eventid=213273&amp;categoryid=1701473\">registration page<\/a> to sign-up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Fertilizer Development Center will hold its seventh Linking Farmers to Markets workshop in Accra from 15-19 May. The cost of the program is $1,650 until 17 April and $1,800 afterward. \u00a0The successful training program has been conducted in both English and French in the past. Who should attend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,280,7,61],"tags":[583,427],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-field-notes","category-news","category-opportunities","tag-farmer-to-market-training","tag-ifdc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/ftfpeanutlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}