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Item CTA relatório sucinto 2010: Construindo caminhos para o futuro(Brochure, 2010-02-01) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationDurante o meu primeiro ano como Director do CTA reconheci as enormes oportunidades para aumentar o trabalho em rede e consolidar as parcerias entre as instituições que lidam com a segurança alimentar e o desenvolvimento sustentável nos países da África, Caraíbas e Pacífico (ACP). Aprendi imenso com os decisores políticos, cientistas, representantes de agricultores e profissionais agrícolas. Acima de tudo, fui encorajado pelas cartas recebidas de extensionistas e agentes de desenvolvimento que operam na vanguarda, que apreciam o apoio proporcionado pelo CTA ao seu trabalho nos países ACP.Item CTA - Plus de 35 ans à l’avant-garde de la transformation agricole(Report, 2020-02-20) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationLe CTA exerce ses activités dans le cadre de l'accord de Cotonou, signé en juin 2000 par l'Union européenne et le groupe des États d'Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique (ACP). Cet accord expire en décembre 2020, mettant ainsi fin à la base financière et légale du Centre pendant près de 20 ans.Item CTA - A legacy of agricultural transformation(Report, 2020-02-20) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationFor over 35 years, CTA has effectively demonstrated how agricultural innovation can be documented, shared and scaled up to achieve significant improvements in incomes, productivity and food security.Item CTA Rapport annuel 2010 : Agir pour un avenir meilleur(Report, 2011-03-01) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationItem CTA Annual Report 2010: Building paths to the future(Report, 2011-03-01) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation2010 was particularly important for CTA. We developed a Strategic Plan for the next 5 years, ‘Empowering Rural ACP Communities through Knowledge’. This will ensure that we focus on the critical issues facing agriculture and marshall our efforts through knowledge sharing, networking and capacity building. Agriculture can – indeed must – play a pivotal role in helping nations and communities to increase their income, reduce poverty and tackle malnutrition. Three-quarters of the world’s poor people live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods and survival. The world must increase food production by at least 70% to feed the projected population of 9 billion people by 2050, without damaging further the natural resource base on which agriculture depends.Item Accelerating youth-led digital entrepreneurship in agriculture(Brochure, 2019-10-10) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationYoung people have the potential to generate innovations that will transform the productivity and resilience of agriculture in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). For over five years, CTA has been promoting and supporting digital entrepreneurship among tech-savvy youth to improve their livelihoods, their communities, and contribute to the ACP’s agricultrual transformation. CTA’s approach to facilitating digital entrepreneurship among young people in ACP regions, includes the identification of promising young entrepreneurs; peer-to-peer learning; networking and business-to-business (B2B) matchmaking; mentorship and capacity development; and piloting business models for proof of concept and impact assessment.Item CLI-MARK: Weather forecasts, insurance and markets(Brief, 2019-07-25) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationSome 20 million livestock keepers in the Horn of Africa are threatened by increasingly frequent and severe droughts. These have eroded the pastoralists’ adaptive capacity and resilience to such an extent that almost every drought now results in a humanitarian crisis. A CTA-led project, Enhancing market response to resilience in livestock value chain in Eastern Africa (CLI-MARK), is scaling upmarket mechanisms that increase the adaptive capacity of pastoralists in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia.Item AgriHack: Accélérer l'entrepreneuriat numérique dans le secteur de l'agriculture(Brief, 2019-07-25) Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et RuraleLes technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) influencent de plus en plus l’avenir de la production alimentaire, de la commercialisation et de la gestion de la chaîne d’approvisionnement. Les TIC contribuent désormais à la transformation des chaînes de valeur agricoles dans les pays d’Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique, en améliorant la productivité et l’accès aux marchés dans le secteur agroalimentaire. L’initiative AgriHack Talent du CTA vise à renforcer l’innovation agricole fondée sur les TIC et accélérer la création d’entreprises par les jeunes.Item Value4Her: Boosting women-led agribusiness(Brief, 2019-05) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationWomen are key players in agriculture, but few are engaged in agribusiness. This is largely because women face challenges that bar their entry to this lucrative sector, including poor access to markets, market intelligence, finance and other business services, and because they commonly lack the technical, management and leadership skills needed to drive an enterprise forward. VALUE4HER: Strengthening women’s agribusiness enterprises in ACP countries is set to change this.Item AgriHack Talent: Accelerating digital entrepreneurship(Brief, 2019-05) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationThe future of food production, marketing and supply-chain management increasingly lies in the realm of information and communication technologies (ICTs). ICTs contribute to the transformation of agricultural value chains in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, improving productivity and market access in the agrifood sector. CTA’s AgriHack Talent initiative aims to strengthen ICT innovation in agriculture, as well as to accelerate youth entrepreneurship.Item Pejeriz: Rice, entrepreneurship and jobs in West Africa(Brief, 2019-05) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationThe rice value chain in West Africa has huge potential to create new jobs for the region’s youth. Young people in the region offer an innovative and dynamic workforce, demonstrating a high uptake of modern technology and the ability to take on significant levels of risk. CTA’s Promoting youth entrepreneurship and job creation in the West African rice value chain (PEJERIZ) project is creating sustainable entrepreneurial and employment opportunities for rural youths by actively engaging them in the improvement of rice value chains.Item Manioc 21: Releasing the potential of cassava(Brief, 2019-05) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationCassava is a staple food in Central Africa, providing food security, jobs and income to millions of people. It also has enormous potential as an industrial crop, producing starch and high-quality flour that can substitute wheat in baking and for other uses. However, industrial demand is still limited. CTA’s project, Accelerating innovative and sustainable cassava business models for women and youth in Central Africa (Manioc21), is addressing this by supporting development of innovative business models that exploit this potential market.Item Data4Ag: Using data to transform smallholder farming(Brief, 2019-05) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationDigitalisation of agriculture is driving an exponential growth in the amount of data on agriculture being collected. This calls for new tools and approaches to gather, manage, analyse and use this data. CTA’s project, Data4Ag: Agricultural data systems to transform smallholder farming, focuses on transforming smallholder agriculture through the use of data management by agri-enterprises.Item Eyes in the sky, smart techs on the ground(Brief, 2019-05) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationUnmanned aerial systems (UAS) – or drone-based technologies – have the potential to transform smallholder farming and help increase crop production. As a tool of precision agriculture, UAS provide farmers with realtime, actionable data on their land, crops and livestock, and help maximise input efficiency, minimise environmental impacts, optimise produce quality, and minimise risks. CTA is assisting African start-ups in acquiring the capacity to deliver UAS services to smallholders, under the project Transforming Africa’s agriculture; eyes in the sky, smart techs on the ground.Item CTA Rapport Annuel 2012 : Toujours plus haut(Report, 2013-06) Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et RuralePour le CTA, 2012 a été une autre année aussi passionnante que fructueuse. On peut notamment citer le renforcement de capacités dans des domaines stratégiques, l’établissement de partenariats et une grande conférence internationale sur le développement des chaînes de valeur. Organisée avec la Commission économique de l’ONU pour l’Afrique et 18 autres organisations, cette conférence a attiré 70 pays et donné une excellente occasion de partager des enseignements, de sensibiliser et de collaborer avec le secteur privé. Le rapport annuel présente le travail du CTA sur les processus relatifs aux politiques, notamment à l’industrie agroalimentaire, la gestion du savoir et des TIC pour le développement.Item CTA Annual Report 2012: Raising the bar(Report, 2013-06) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationFor CTA, 2012 proved to be another exciting and fruitful year. Highlights included bolstering capacity in key areas, building partnerships and a major international conference on value chain development. Organised with the UN Economic Commission for Africa and 18 other organisations, the conference attracted 70 countries and provided an excellent opportunity to share lessons, create awareness and collaborate with the private sector. The annual report showcases CTA’s work on policy processes, inclusive agri-business, knowledge management and ICT for agriculture.Item CTA Rapport Annuel 2011 : Une année de renouveau(Report, 2012-06) Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et RuralePour le CTA, 2011 a été une année de renouveau. Suite à l'approbation du Plan stratégique 2011-2015 au début de l'année, le Centre a procédé à des mesures importantes pour réaligner les programmes et les activités de ses objectifs stratégiques. Le CTA accorde dorénavant beaucoup plus d'importance à la création de partenariats avec des organes de décision régionaux, des groupes d'agriculteurs et d'autres personnes travaillant pour le bénéfice des communautés rurales dans les pays ACP. Le Rapport annuel met en lumière le travail du CTA sur le changement climatique et la vulgarisation agricole, sur les marchés et les chaînes de valeur, sur la gestion du savoir et des TIC pour le développement.Item CTA Annual Report 2011: A year of renewal(Report, 2012-06) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationFor CTA, 2011 was a year of renewal. Following the approval of the 2011–2015 strategic plan at the beginning of the year, the Centre undertook important steps to realign programmes and operations to its strategic objectives. CTA is now placing a much stronger emphasis on creating partnerships with regional policy-making organisations, farmers’ groups and others working for the benefit of rural communities in ACP countries. The annual report highlights CTA’s work on climate change and agricultural extension, on markets and value chains, knowledge management and ICTs for development.Item Stratégie du CTA pour les questions genre : Synthèse(Report, 2014-12) Centre Technique de Coopération Agricole et RuraleDepuis sa création en 1983, le CTA met en oeuvre chaque année des activités de développement spécifiques aux femmes. En 2003, le CTA a adopté sa première stratégie sur les questions de genre, qui lui a également permis de se doter de sa première approche « formelle » de l’agriculture et du développement rural selon la dimension de genre. Cependant, depuis 2003, le CTA a mis en oeuvre trois plans stratégiques consécutifs et a opéré divers ajustements internes. De plus, l’environnement dans lequel le CTA exerce ses activités connaît une évolution et un développement rapides. Cette stratégie est une feuille de route vers l’intégration de la dimension de genre au sein de la théorie du changement, des programmes, de la structure et de l’organisation internes du CTA. Elle facilitera également l’intégration des questions de genre dans l’ensemble des aspects du CTA et de son travail. Les étapes pratiques permettant d’atteindre les objectifs et les progrès identifiés seront envisagées dans une « boîte à outils »/guide de mise en oeuvre distinct.Item CTA Gender strategy: Synthesis(Report, 2014-11) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural CooperationEvery year since its establishment in 1983, CTA has implemented women specific development activities. In 2003, CTA adopted its first gender strategy, which also provided the Centre’s first “formal” gender approach to agriculture and rural development. Since 2003, however, CTA has implemented three consecutive centre-wide Strategic Plans and has made various internal adjustments. Moreover, the external environment in the field that CTA operates in continues to change and grow at a fast rate. This strategy is a roadmap towards making CTA’s operational theory of change and programmes as well as internal corporate structure and organization gender sensitive. It will also help facilitate gender mainstreaming in all aspects of CTA and its work. The practical steps in which the identified key objectives and progress markers can be achieved will be the treated in a separate “tool kit”/implementation guideline.