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Showing posts with label mindset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mindset. Show all posts

Thursday, September 8, 2016

ACORD boss, Ngum tasks CAADP Non-State Actors on mindset

The Executive Director of the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development, (ACORD), Mr. Ousainou Ngum, has tasked the leadership of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Non-State Actors Coalition (CNC) to change their current mindset so as to reap the potentials in CAADP, reports NaijaAgroNet.

In a keynote to the session, at the ongoing African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF 2016) on "Accelerating Africa’s Rise: Maximizing Non-State Actors’ Potential for Results and Impact, Mr. Ngum said that if the desire of CNC is to make real impact, it must open its arms to welcoming new people and concepts especially at this era of technology.

This, he said, includes exploration of the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) tools that have become people-oriented such as social media and platforms like What’sApp.

He stressed that exploiting the likes of What’sApp, for instance, the horizon for CNC will be larger and hence become more acceptable and inclusiveness to its membership and even potential members.

Ngum told the session moderated by the Executive Director, Local Development Research Institute (LDRI), Mr. Muchiri Nyaggah, and included panelists like One Campiaign representative to the African Union (AU) and East Africa, Dorine Nininahazwe, Deputy Regional Director at Oxfam, Ms Dedo Mate-Kodjo, deputy chairman of CNC, Mr. Cris Muyunda, chief executive officer of East Africa Farmers Federation, Mr. Stephen Muchiri and chairman, Leveraging Excellence in Agricultural Development, Ambassador Philip Idro, CNS has to develop a new framework with clear deliverables.

CNC, he also pointed out should ensure the involvement of all regional organizations and work around making certain that CAADP is a success.

“Civil society should talk beyond themselves and work on the youth too,” he declared, stressing that the need for change in mindset will open up lots of other opportunities, especially by working closely with the African Union Commission (AUC).

On the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Mr. Ngum said, the Coalition must ensure no one is left behind by delving into the 17 goals, explaining that the latest SDGs is about the world and not just about the rich and poor or those who have and havenots.


“We can only do that by reaching out,” he declared.

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Pix: Mr. Ngum speaking.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Agribusiness solutions make ‘farming cool’ for Kenyans



A British multinational, Balton CP, is offering advanced agricultural solutions, which seek to change the youth mindset towards agribusiness, while empowering them with the technology: knoMaking farming 'cool' for Kenyan youthledge, skills, support and financing, to engage in modern agribusiness, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The agribusiness inclined company has been around as a major driving force in the agricultural sectors of many countries throughout Africa for over 25 years. They can be credited with being the first to introduce drip irrigation technology in several African countries in the late 1970s, greatly boosting the sector.
The group's 'Farming is Cool' campaign was launched in Kenya in 2011 by its subsidiary Amiran Kenya and following several years of activity, became its pan-African 'Farming is Cool Africa' Initiative. Over the last few years, NaijaAgroNet gathered, the campaign has allowed Amiran Kenya and its partners including the government, donors, NGO communities and private sector to place the Amiran Farmers Kit in over 1,000 primary and secondary schools throughout Kenya and in more than 300 youth polytechnics in the country.

NaijaAgroNet also learnt that AFK is an award winning, modern agribusiness unit anchored on a holistic approach that offers the farmer the tools, training and support required to engage in successful, sustainable agribusiness.
This unit has allowed over three million Kenyan children and youth to be exposed and willingly take up modern agribusiness using the most advanced, cutting edge technologies and methods available in the market tody.
In Kenya  and indeed  most  African communities, NaijaAgroNet  learnt, youth view agriculture as an unbefitting occupation often practised by older people in retirement or by those in 'shags' (rural areas) who have to farm to survive. More so, many schools often use agriculture as a form of punishment for deviant behavior.
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