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| AGRIDEA is a resource and capacity building organisation for professionals working in rural and agricultural development in Switzerland and around the world. It operates in two centres – one in Lindau and the other one in Lausanne. While our main work takes place in Switzerland, our Team for International Cooperation with broad working experience in developing countries, countries in transition and other industrialised countries, constitutes a competence centre for rural and agricultural development in international contexts.
http://www.agridea-international.ch The First Mile Project is about how small farmers, traders, processors and others from poor rural areas learn to build market chains linking producers to consumers. Good communication is vital. The project encourages people in isolated rural communities to use mobile phones, e-mail and the Internet to share their local experiences and good practices, learning from one another. While communication technology is important, real success depends on building trust and collaboration along the market chain. Ultimately farmers and others involved develop relevant local knowledge and experience and share it – even with people in distant communities – to come up with new ideas. http://www.ifad.org/rural/firstmile WREN media is a multi-media production company. On air, on-line, in print and in person, we are communications specialists who take pride and pleasure in producing the highest quality goods and services for clients around the world. Improved agricultural productivity would require that farmers are motivated and facilitated by such initiatives like DrumNet a project of PRIDE AFRICA targeted at providing financial, marketing, and information services specifically designed to increase farm productivity, market access, and overall efficiency. FAO established the World Agricultural Information Centre (WAICENT) as a corporate framework for agricultural information management and dissemination. This is a strategic effort to fight hunger with information. The WAICENT framework integrates and harmonizes standards, tools and procedures for the efficient and effective management and dissemination of high-quality technical information, including relevant and reliable statistics, texts, maps, and multimedia resources. FAO Country Profiles and Mapping Information System is a pioneering information retrieval tool which groups the organization's vast archive of information on its global activities in agriculture and development in a single area and catalogues it exclusively by country. http://www.fao.org/countryProfiles Welcome to IFAT - the global network of Fair Trade Organizations. Our mission is to improve the livelihoods and well being of disadvantaged producers by linking and promoting Fair Trade Organizations, and speaking out for greater justice in world trade. The Cooperation for Fair Trade in Africa - COFTA is a network of Fair Trade producer organisations in Africa involved and working with disadvantaged grass root producers to eliminate poverty through Fair Trade. The FairTrade Foundation’s mission is to work with businesses, community groups and individuals to improve the trading position of producer organisations in the South and to deliver sustainable livelihoods for farmers, workers and their communities by: a) being a passionate and ambitious development organisation committed to tackling poverty and injustice through trade, and b) using certification and product labelling, through the FAIRTRADE Mark, as a tool for our development goals. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy. The Small Enterprise Education and Promotion (SEEP) Network, the leading international network and promoter of best practices in enterprise development and financial services, is a global organization whose membership is committed to reducing poverty through the power of enterprise. Our 67 members are active in over 140 countries and reach over 23 million microentrepreneurs and their families. Typically, our members’ programs focus on women (who comprise 70 percent of the client base) and the smallest entrepreneurial businesses in urban areas. Increasingly, though, our members’ programs are reaching out to clients in rural areas. ASARECA mission is to enhance regional collective action in agricultural research for development, extension and agricultural training and education to promote economic growth, fight poverty, eradicate hunger and enhance sustainable use of resources. | Ideso is Lotus Award 2005 Finalist for the Best Philanthropic Solution: Recognizing the Business Partner who has developed an effective solution based on IBM/ Lotus technologies for a not-for-profit, environmental or humanitarian effort or one in support of broader civic participation based. The Knowledge Management solution "KM-Tools" of Ideso is a family of tools for Knowledge Management based on InstantTeam
Traidcraft fights poverty through trade, helping people in developing countries to transform their lives. Established in 1979 as a Christian response to poverty, we are the UK's leading fair trade organisation. We run development programmes in some of the poorest countries in the world, and campaign in the UK and internationally to bring about trade justice. Busylab's Tradenet software platform is designed to provide the very latest agricultural market information to stakeholders. Accessed via SMS, fax, web, PDAs, farmers and traders can get daily price information, download video/audio files, access research documents, post buy/sell offers to the community, and contact other market participants. The concept is to make african markets more transparent and efficient, improve intra-regional trading, and provide stakeholders with enough recent and accurate information to make better decisions on bringing products to market and at what price. InkMedia is dedicated to remaining at the leading edge of low cost computing through the relentless pursuit of cost reduction opportunities and ongoing technical innovation. InkMedia's technology and product design radically minimizes the main costs of computer ownership. As a result, InkMedia is now prepared to offer an internet ready laptop computer with compelling performance features that can profitably be sold, without government subsidies IFAD Rural poverty knowledgebase. Learning processes should generate knowledge for rural development partners and also ensure that knowledge can and will be applied in practical and immediate ways. The topics covered in the Rural Poverty Knowledgebase highlight how experiences can be transformed into systematic and operations-oriented learning exercises. Kilosa Rural Services and Electronic Communication (KIRSEC). This is first full service Rural Tanzania's Internet cafe. Is establish since January 2004 with effort to generate profits through making many villagers capable of earning more money and enhancing their livelihoods. http://www.kilosaruralservices.com TeleCommons Development Group (TDG) is a unique international telecommunications networking firm specializing in results-oriented solutions for rural areas, agriculture, health, and community development. Bees for Development is an independent organisation founded in 1993. We are an information service working at the heart of an international network of people and organisations involved with apiculture in developing countries. http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/ Anancy, the CTA Virtural Resource Center is a web portal providing numerous information resource materials on agricultural and rural development. It compiles the Centre technical publications, proceedings, policy briefs or rural radio materials. This East African export promotion portal is managed by the trade promotion bodies from Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. The development has been facilitated by the Center for the promotion of imports from developing countries (CBI) from The Netherlands. A large number of export coaches who have been trained by CBI contribute to the content of the portal. CBI contributes to the economic development of developing countries by strengthening the competitiveness of companies from those countries on the European (EU & EFTA) markets. EFTA (the European Fair Trade Association) is an association of eleven Fair Trade importers in nine European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom). The aim of EFTA is to support its member organizations in their work and to encourage them to cooperate and coordinate. It facilitates the exchange of information and networking, it creates conditions for labour division and it identifies and develops joint projects. It does this, among others, by organizing meetings of the members (on food, handicrafts, marketing, managers) and by circulating relevant information to them. It is also maintaining a database of EFTA suppliers, called Fairdata, which contains details on suppliers and their products. EFTA has an office in Brussels which is responsible for the execution of the Fair Procura project, funded by the EU; the aim of this project is to make public authorities and institutional buyers local actors of sustainable development. http://www.european-fair-trade-association.org iConnect Africa is a quarterly web, paper and email service that aims to raise awareness in the wider African development community regarding the possibilities offered by ICTs in development. It is produced by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD). http://www.uneca.org/aisi/iconnectafrica The EuroAfrica-ICT initiative is a project supported by the European Commission through its IST programme. The project is implemented by a consortium led by Sigma Consultants, specialised - through its Orionis division - in support services devoted to S&T international cooperation in the ICT field. IFAP is the world farmers organisation representing over 600 million farm families grouped in 115 national organisations in 80 countries. It is a global network in which farmers from industrialised and developing countries exchange concerns and set common priorities. IFAP advocates farmers interests at the international level since 1946 and has General Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
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