Educational & ICT Opportunities for Youth in Agriculture!!!

Current and forthcoming Web 2.0 and Social Media Learning Opportunities in ACP countries .

·   Botswana (ongoing) ·  Congo Brazzaville (planned) ·  DRC (planned) ·  Guinée Conakry (planned) ·  Guyana (planned) - Ivory Coast (ongoing) · Lesotho (forthcoming)

·  Malawi (forthcoming) · Namibia (ongoing) ·  Nigeria (forthcoming) ·  Papua New Guinea ·  Samoa (forthcoming) ·  Swaziland (forthcoming) · Zimbabwe (ongoing)

For more information on events where you can still apply, please consult

 http://www.web2fordev.net/ .Here is a Google map showing where they already have / are going / plan to run Web 2.0 and Social Media Learning events.

The Environmental Economics Unit (EEU) at the University of Gothenburg, in collaboration with the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, offer six full scholarships for a PhD program in Global Change and Climate Economics with admission September 2014. Deadline for application is 1 April, 2014 APPLY HERE :http://www.economics.handels.gu.se/english/education/phd-program-in-global-change-and-climate-economics/

IICD - Has done some filming in Kenya Here's the link to the publication: ICT4D Effects: Youth, ICTs and Agriculture And here's the link to the video: Youth, ICTs and Agriculture video

Are you from Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Malawi, and running a social enterprise?

Check out the 40 CHANCES FELLOWS PROGRAM which will fund four 40 Chances Fellows with the most innovative social enterprise plans that use strategies built on the principles of 40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World.  These social enterprises must seek to address issues of hunger, conflict, or poverty and may be established in any one of the above mentioned 4 countries, where the Africa Governance Initiative has a strong presence.APPLICATION DEADLINE: 31 May 2014.More information: http://bit.ly/1jeWoD8

Social Reporting Mission to Fruit Logistica 2014 in Berlin with COLEACP

With  about 58,000 visitors from 130 countries Fruit Logistica is the largest exhibition of fruit and vegetables in the world !! . I am so excited to have been selected as one of two individuals from the Caribbean Region to be social reporting for COLEACP from Berlin!!. Walking in the thing that hits you is the great volume of companies and their representatives covering everything from packaging and storage to exporters/importers , production,whole sale and retail as well as transporting and handling.
The ability to foster new connections , learn of new innovative agricultural technologies and network with people from all over the world is incredible -- Fruit Logistica is the Davos of Agriculture!

I am social reporting with three very talented ladies Jeanine Eugene from St Lucia , Nancy Handabile representing Zambia and Ann from Cameroon .Together we jointly represent the Caribbean and African region of small farmers.
 All day we have been roving through the vast halls trying to find the most useful and interesting innovations of 2014 represented at the exhibition. There are a total of 10 nominees for the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award. You can find them all through this link : http://www.fruitlogistica.de/en/ExhibitorService/FLIAAward/NominatedExhibitor2014/