Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) was established in 1983 under the Lome Convention between the ACP (African, Caribbean and Pacific) Group of States and the European Union Member States. Since 2000, CTA has operated within the framework of the ACP-EC Cotonou Agreement.
Spore is the bi-monthly flagship publication of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) - ACP-EU. CTA operates under the Cotonou Agreement between the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group and the European Union. A subscription entitles you to receive 6 copies of Spore over the year (Jan - December). If you subscribe later on in the year you will receive back issues for the whole year.
Spore is the bi-monthly flagship publication of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) - ACP-EU. CTA operates under the Cotonou Agreement between the countries of Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group and the European Union. A subscription entitles you to receive 6 copies of Spore over the year (Jan - December). If you subscribe later on in the year you will receive back issues for the whole year.
This bilingual CD-ROM is a compilation of analyses published on the Agritrade website in 2012. It brings together executive briefs that impartially review developments affecting trade in the agricultural and fisheries sectors of ACP countries.
The new booklet published by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA ACP-EU) features 20 young people and three organizations, that have been involved in the CTA youth project called ARDYIS (Agriculture Rural Development and Youth in the Information Society).
This manual concentrates on running a small-scale cooking oil business and covers important aspects such as production, processing, quality control as well as marketing, packaging, branding and customer care.
Three-quarters of the world’s poorest billion people live in rural areas, and the vast majority depend on agriculture for their livelihoods and survival. Encouraging the growth of the agricultural sector is therefore one of the most effective ways of tackling poverty and reducing hunger and malnutrition.
Agricultural research in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries has been characterised by poor communication and limited use of its results by beneficiaries, perhaps due to limited capacity of researchers in scientific writing and communication of agricultural research results.
This user’s manual assumes that there is an overarching national agricultural policy. Such a policy informs the mission, direction or mandate of organisations, both large government organisations, such as government ministries and small non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that comprise a national agricultural sector.
This Facilitator’s Guide has been developed to meet a need expressed by agriculture and rural development organisations in African, Pacific and Caribbean (ACP) countries highlighted in the needs assessment studies conducted from 2003-2012 by CTA (The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation). In response to this need, CTA has embarked on developing this guide and training selected professionals from ACP countries who in turn train more professionals in their home countries.
Sur le milliard de personnes les plus pauvres de la planète, les trois quarts vivent dans des zones rurales et une large majorité d’entre eux sont tributaires de l’agriculture pour leur subsistance et leur survie. Encourager la croissance du secteur agricole est donc l’un des moyens les plus efficaces de lutter contre la pauvreté et de réduire la faim et la malnutrition.
Written in an easy to understand format, this eight-page fold-out leaflet covers the background to rice cultivation, outlines the processes and provides tips, tables and explanatory line drawings.
