Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
TAP partner
Acronym:
CTA
Type of Organization:
International Organizations
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The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) is a joint international institution of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and the European Union (EU). Their mission is to advance food and nutritional security, increase prosperity and encourage sound natural resource management in ACP countries.
Areas of activity:
food and agribusiness
research and development
cooperation
Focus of Capacity Development:
Individual
Organizational
Institutional
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Resources from this Organisation
Overcoming challenges to digital agribusiness start-ups in developing countries
The proposit of this brief was to look across several projects and experiences in digital agriculture and synthesize insights and lessons on what really works for nextgeneration agriculture and rural development practice and policies. The information in this brief is based on interviews held...
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2019Author(s):
Kropff W.Neate P. J. H.Pilgrim V.- Link to web resource
Overcoming challenges to digital agribusiness start-ups
This brief introduces a set of business-plan challenges faced by digital agribusiness start-ups in ACP countries and promising ways to overcome them. Challenges covered include access to finance, knowing the customer base, sourcing data, access to technical, business and management skills and...
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2019Author(s):
Kropff W.Pilgrim V.Neate P. J. H.- Link to web resource
Putting the private sector at the centre of climate-smart agriculture
This brief draws on three cases to show how the private sector contributes to the conceptualisation, design, delivery and evaluation of climate-smart agricultural interventions and can help bring them to scale. Engaging the private sector in CSA interventions enhances the applicability – and...
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2019Author(s):
Gordon U. M.Were T. O.Ajayi O.- Link to web resource
Manioc 21: Releasing the potential of cassava
This brochure describes the project MANIOC21: releasing the potential of cassava. The aim is to fine-tune and accelerate innovative and new business models that create market linkages across cassava value chains and promote added-value activities to be scaled-up at the regional level
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)- Link to web resource
Cash usage behaviour and its implication for digital payments: A case of Ghana and Nigeria's smallholder cassava value chain
This study considers what lessons might be learned from the cassava value chain in the context of CTA’s interest in the potentials of: digital financial services for agriculture, such as mobile payments for farmers’ products; other payment streams for financial inclusion of farmer; index based...
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2019Author(s):
LHB AssociatesFarmerline Ltd.FLV LogisticsKowree- Link to web resource
Enhancing next-generation ACP agribusiness through digitalisation
This is one of the briefs produced by 30 digital agribusiness practitioners from CTA, its networks and partners to document and assess ways that digital solutions improve the performance, competitiveness and profitability of agribusinesses in ACP countries. Drawing on experiences and cases...
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2019Author(s):
Ballantyne P. G.Chavez-Tafur J.- Link to web resource
Facilitating experience capitalization: A guidebook
This guidebook is meant to help facilitators. Its purpose is to empower organizations with the tools and the skills needed to identify practices which can be brought to scale, to describe and analyze them in detail, and to share the lessons they teach. More specifically, this project aimed to...
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2019Author(s):
Eggens L.Chavez-Tafur J.- Link to web resource
Pejeriz: Rice, entrepreneurship and jobs in West Africa
This document is a brief description of the project "Pejeriz: Rice, entrepreneurship and jobs in West Africa". The project aims to building and strengthening entrepreneurial capacities of rural youth, creating market linkages and promoting value-adding activities for rural youth in the rice...
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2019Author(s):
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)- Link to web resource
Innovative Partnerships to Scale Up Climate-Smart Agriculture for Smallholder Farmers in Southern Africa
The objective of this chapter is to describe the processes and experiences of forming country project teams, partnership models and approaches to reach farmers in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. This will improve understanding of methods of setting up sustainable partnerships that exist beyond...
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2019Author(s):
Kadzamira M. A. T. J.Ajayi O.- Link to web resource
CTA 2018 - A year in review: Accelerating Agricultural Transformation
This report brings a review about the CTA activities in 2018 based on three intervention areas. One is promoting youth entrepreneurship and creating employment for young people, particularly through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The second, digitalisation, cuts...
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)- Link to web resource
A learning journey to the Kingdom of Tonga: Accelerating transformative change in nutrition-sensitive value chains in Pacific islands: Promoting nutritious food systems in the Pacific islands
This publication describes the activities carried out in the tripartite event ‘Transforming Nutrition-Sensitive Value Chain Development in the Pacific Islands.” It was implemented by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) in collaboration with MORDI Tonga Trust, the...
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2019Author(s):
Sio-Ki-Sia F. F.- Link to web resource
Spore 192: Digitalising agriculture - Bridging the gender gap
This publication brings some sucessful experiencies in Digital Agriculture in African countries. In this issue of Spore, it is explored how digitalisation is providing women with better access to finance, information and markets, as well as opening up new opportunities for young entrepreneurs to...
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2019Author(s):
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)- Link to web resource