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Commercial Farm Service Program Team Answers Questions as part of #FeedingDev

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As part of Devex’s #FeedingDev campaign, the Commercial Farm Service Program (CFSP) in Ethiopia wanted to hear from you!  That is why CFSP opened the discussion for anyone to ask the team questions via Facebook and Twitter #CFSPquestions.  Here are video answers by Dr. Waktola Wakgari, Chief of Party of CFSP, answering questions that were submitted over the last two weeks.

Question 1:  Nowadays, the agriculture and agribusiness sector has the interest of promoting the “value chain approach” as a way to increasing smallholder farmers’ lives and livelihoods. Taking that into account, which stage of the agricultural value chain would you say is the most challenging in Ethiopia –  or rather, which stage of the agricultural value chain in Ethiopia requires the highest intervention to ensure farmers and their families have better lives?

Question 2: Would you say agrodealers are the best thing that happened to smallholder farmers or would you say that such merchants put the farmers access at risk of finding a fair price for products? If you say they put the farmers at risk more than they help, what should be done to minimize this risk of expensive and/or adulterated products?

Question 3: What do you do with the waste of vegetables grown and are not sold and that eventually have to be thrown away?

Question 4: How would you say a smallholder farmer could be safe from risks  of using hazardous plant protection products and what has been done up to now in relation to reducing the risk and protecting farmers’ lives?

Question 5:  How can one reduce the negative impact of plant protection products on environment?

If you have any questions about CFSP, please contact Kathryn Karl (kkarl@cnfa.org).

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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 New Videos Produced by CNFA’s F2F Volunteer

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Clay Mason, an accomplished digital media professional, recently volunteered with a Kenyan rice cooperative in the Meru district to produce three videos which will serve a variety of purposes to further the mission and reach of the cooperative.  The videos included a short commercial for potential bulk buyers, one to advertise and promote the services offered by the cooperative to its members, and a final 30 minute video exclusively on modern rice farmer techniques.

MRGM: What We Offer For Farmers Video

 

MRGM: Our Rice Video

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