Featured Projects

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2021-2023: SENEGAL (CAD $75K FUNDED BY THE QUEBEC MINISTRY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND FRANCOPHONIE)

This project aims to strengthen the adaptation capacities of producers in the Fatick region, through training of trainers on production and management strategies for animal feed and on the hygiene and marketing of dairy products to improve the sustainability of the animal production in the context of climate change.

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2020-2023: HAITI (CAD $85K FUNDED BY THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE IN HAITI)

Sélection d’un opérateur appelé à concevoir et mettre en oeuvre un projet spécial de recherche-formation-vulgarisation relatif à l’Identification et gestion intégrée des maladies et ravageurs agricoles dans les zones d’intervention du projet, dans les zones du PITAG

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2020-2023: HAITI (CAD $195K FUNDED BY THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE IN HAITI)

Sélection d’un opérateur appelé à concevoir et mettre en oeuvre un projet spécial de recherche-formation-vulgarisation à la mise au point de méthodes d’amélioration de fertilité des sols en conditions de faibles intrants dans les zones d’intervention du projet (Relance).

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2012: MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (FUNDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR WESTERN ASIA)

This project aimed to study agricultural value chains in the MENA region with a view to identify their structure, conduct and performance so as to propose ways to improve the way they operate. Of particular interest is the conduct of an analysis on how resources are used along the value chain and how their use could be improved in order to improved efficiency and livelihoods.

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2011-2014: KENYA (CAD $4.3M FUNDED BY THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE – CANADA)

This project aimed to contribute to improving food security among women and men in hunger-prone communities in Kenya by facilitating farmer adoption of proven agricultural technologies that enhance ecological resilience in the face of a changing climate.

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2011-2014: CARICOM (CAD $5M FUNDED BY THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE – CANADA)

This project aimed to improve nutrition and health outcomes of CARICOM populations through an integrated, gender equal, environmentally sustainable systems approach to food availability, safety and quality.

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2015: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (USD $100K FUNDED BY UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT – USAID)

This project aimed to conduct a vulnerability assessment in food insecure regions of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that forms the basis for the design of a larger food security project in response to assessment’s findings and recommendations.

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2015-2018: COLOMBIA (CAD $300K FUNDED BY THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTRE – CANADA)

This project aimed to scaling-up the adoption of improved potato varieties with high nutritional qualities for Colombian consumers and potato producers in an operational strategy that links agriculture to nutrition for alleviating food insecurity and undernutrition.

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2016-2019: MALAWI, ZAMBIA & MOZAMBIQUE (CAD $400K FUNDED BY GLOBAL AFFAIRS CANADA)

The Southern African Nutrition Initiative (SANI) project aimed to improve the nutritional status of women of reproductive age (15-49 years) and children under-5 years while working with local health authorities and communities in Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia.

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2017-2019: GUATEMALA (CAD $250K FUNDED BY GLOBAL AFFAIRS CANADA THROUGH GRAND CHALLENGES CANADA)

This project aimed to implement a new community counseling model for maternal and child health, with supportive supervision and the use of performance incentives, led by youth from Guatemalan rural, indigenous communities.

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