AFOMDnet About our Project
About our Project
Set up an active and receptive network of scientists in social sciences...
...dedicated to addressing a crucial topic to ACP countries: enhancement of foodcrop and diversification productions.
This network is called AFOMDnet according to its French title (Réseau d'A nalyse des F acteurs d'O ffres vivrières, de mise en m arché et de d iversification) or Analysis network for factors in foodcrop supply, marketing and diversification.
The operation of the network being set up targets at:
- capitalizing numerous experiences of enhancement of the concerned productions, through an analytical approach and specific Internet tools;
- promoting the acknowledgement of ACP scientists through publication of their analyses and results in international scientific journals;
- increasing the role of research institutions in reflections and conception of policies destined to promote the considered productions;
- providing assistance to other networks of researchers in adopting the analytical approach and tools carried out
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Objectives
Compliance to the objectives of the ACP Programme for Science and Technology
AFOMDnet Project responds to the goal of ACP Programme to enhance research capabilities, implying the strengthening of the capabilities in designing policies; it is targeted at the applied area of foodcrop production, marketing and diversification production.
Scheduled actions
Improvement of the performance of research competences is at stake
- to better contribute to the design and implementation of agricultural and research policies in ACP countries,
- ...more specifically in the area of foodcrop productions, marketing and agricultural diversification .
The conduct of the Project relies on existing resources in research implementation; they are currently located in cotton production regions of the participating countries which are five major cotton countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali and Chad).
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