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Empowering Smallholder Farmers with Inputs and Information

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Read about CNFA’s Commercial Farm Service Program featured on Feed the Future’s blog!

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Read About CNFA Farmer-to-Farmer Volunteer’s Experience in Mozambique

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Through the USAID Farmer-to-Farmer, Ron Overmyer provided voluntary technical assistance to the Samora Macher Farmer Association.

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AGP-LMD Attends the African Livestock Exhibition and Congress

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Check out photos from AGP-LMD’s participation in the African Livestock Exhibition and Congress (ALEC).  AGP-LMD sponsored 20 of its value chain businesses to participate with booths.

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Increase of Agricultural Productivity Stressed to Reduce Rural Poverty

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Read about a recent training held by CNFA staff as part of the USAID-supported Agro-Inputs Project in Bangladesh.

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CNFA Places in Feed the Future’s Photo Contest

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CNFA places 3 out of 10 spots in the Feed the Future photo contest.  The CNFA photos come from Ethiopia’s Commercial Farm Service Program and Bangladesh’s Agro-Inputs Project.

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Read How CNFA is Establishing the First Farm Service Center Network in Ethiopia

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CNFA’s Farm Service Centers, or “one-stop-shops” provide smallholder farmers with access to inputs and linkages to markets – the first network of its kind in Ethiopia.

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Agro-Inputs Project Hosts Khulna Media Briefing

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USAID Agro-Inputs Project (AIP), implemented by CNFA, organized a media event on March 18, 2014.  The event provided guidance and information to the local media on best practices of AIP and the Agro-Input Retailers Network (AIRN) to improve the visibility and longevity of project activities through media engagement. The program was designed accordingly with AIP’s Chief of Party, Mark Treacy kicking off the meeting, followed by remarks from Mehedi Hassan, AIP’s Agricultural Supply Chain Advisor, and Moksed Ali, AIRN’s Coordinator. An AIRN retailer member, Md. Abdul Aziz from Fultala Khulna was also given the opportunity to share his story with the media.

Media representatives from both print and electronic media attended the event:

  • TV Channels (Desh TV, News 9, Mohona TV, Asian TV, nTV, RTV, Channel 9,  and Maasranga TV.
  • Local and National Newspapers (Daily Prothika, Daily Tribune, Dhaka Tribune, Daily Bonik Barta, Amadar Shomoy, and Daily Janmobhumi.

Engaging the media is important to help explain the benefits of AIP’s initiatives while recruiting new members for the Agro-Input Retailers Network.

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Check Out the CNFA Produced Farmer-to-Farmer Video Featured on USAID’s Impact Blog

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The video is highlighted as USAID’s Impact Blog Video of the Week and featured with Farmer-to-Farmer Program Manager Gary Alex’s blog post.

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U.S. Awards Eight Grants to Ethiopian Enterprises

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