Farmers, bankers, lecturers, civil servants and NGOs undergo CASE training in Kaduna

Thirty participants gathered at the Le Helda Palace Hotel in Kaduna, Nigeria from 20-23 April 2009 to build their capacities in the CASE approach and multi-stakeholder engagement. They were made up of representatives of Farmer organizations, bankers, agro-input suppliers, civil servants and NGOs in the agricultural sector. Representatives of the College of Agriculture were also present.


They were taken through agribusiness concepts like competition, innovation and coordination. The participants also tried their hands on diverse analytical tools that will aid them to better link grassroots agri-food industry actors to assured markets. They are now empowered with skills to visualize and analyse their respective commodity clusters and component value chains. The participants also have the skills to engage the cluster actors to strategize and continously improve on their value chain activities.



The outputs of this capacity building exercise in Kaduna is shown in pictures at the photo gallery here: http://picasaweb.google.com/aissa.blog . Hope you join us next time somewhere on the continent to sharpen your skills in agricultural intensification.