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The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) is an ACP-EU institution working in the field of information for development. We operate under the ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement and our headquarters are in The Netherlands. When it was set up, in 1984, CTA was given the challenging task of improving the flow of information among stakeholders in agricultural and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
Our work focuses on three key areas:
- providing information products and services (e.g., publications, question-and-answer services and database services);
- promoting the integrated use of communication channels, old and new, to improve the flow of information (e.g., e-communities, web portals, seminars, and study visits);
- building ACP capacity in information and communication management (ICM), mainly through training and partnerships with ACP bodies.
At the core of all our activities are our partnerships with ACP national and regional bodies. We also work with a wide network of ACP-EU public and private sector bodies, as well as international organisations around the world.
Our overall aim – to better serve the ever-changing information needs of all stakeholders in ACP agricultural and rural development. Through our partners we are working with these stakeholders to achieve the goal shared by the whole development community – poverty alleviation and sustainable development.
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A CTA study visit to agroforestry projects in Malawi and Zambia...
Against the odds
In The Gambia?s Kombo district land-grabbing for settlement is the norm. However, one community has stood against this, asserting their traditional rights to their forest, and carrying out extensive conservation work to preserve it for future generations.
Au Burkina, un sage sahélien créé un système agro-écologique centré autour de l’arbre.
Adama Ouedraogo dit Grand Passage a 70 ans. Avec tant de réalisations à son actif, on pourrait croire que l’heure de la retraite a sonné. Mais il n’en est rien et son système agro-écologique, centré autour de l’arbre, est un modèle que bien des visiteurs
Burkina : pour les femmes bûcheronnes de Bougnounou, l’argent pousse en forêt
A Bougnounou, petit village situé au sud du Burkina, la forêt c’est le paradis des femmes : grâce à de nombreuses activités bien réglementées, le groupement des bûcheronnes de Bougnougou gagnent des millions et assurent le renouvellement de la forêt.
Certification - a difficult process?
An organic vegetable exporter from Malawi explains the difficulties that small scale farmers may have if they want to export crops to foreign markets.