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Innovations in agri-business, success storiesIFDC-ICRA success stories on agri-business clusters in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali.The stories illustrate the experience of entrepreneurial individuals in building small to medium scale businesses through new relationships with colleagues and cluster and value chain partners. The businesses have been supported by IFDC’s 1000s+ project. The stories are based on capitalisation workshops held in 2010 and they have been written by Marijke Loosvelt and Toon Defoer. See also ICRA-IFDC partnership. BeninAngela, the chicken or the egg (pdf, 137K) , Yellow maize, layer hensPineapples are on great form (pdf, 77K) , Pineapples Juliette's gari is the best! (pdf, 194K) , Cassava Burkina FasoFaithful Caesar (pdf, 140K) , SesameMamy, the maize and the cucumber (pdf, 68K) , Maize, vegetables Camille strikes while the paste is hot (pdf, 103K) , Groundnuts Yacouba, craving for white gold (pdf, 171K) , Sorghum GhanaJuliana's story (pdf, 99K) , RiceAmazing Grace (pdf, 88K) , Soybean Hot, hot stuff (pdf, 135K) , Hot pepper MaliAbdou's workers (pdf, 87K) , Beekeeping, honeySesame, open, sesame! (pdf, 96K) , Sesame Shea butter turns into green soap (pdf, 71K) , Shea butter Abdou’s workers (pdf, 87K) , Honey
Nuts about tiger nuts (pdf, 113K)
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Interesting related videosUnited through markets - video on markets in West-Africa, made for IFDC. The film presents 4 agri-business clusters supported by IFDC's 1000s+ project, using the CASE approach.Crosscutting comparison between the 4 cases at the end of the film. Animated version of the Rising Rice section of above videoSinima, sinima: MSPs in action. Link to trailer of a 52 minute film on Multi-Stakeholder Platforms and Processes (MSP) in Inland valleys in sub-Saharan Africa. Shot in Mali and produced by MOOV-ON Productions for AfricaRice and the Agricultural Research institute in Mali (IER). It illustrates ICRA's involvement in the set-up and functioning of MSPs within the framework of a EU-funded project RAP. Other videos from MOOV-ON Productions here ArticlesRising rice: an enterprise in Ghana, article on the Rice cluster in Ghana, by Marie Loosvelt en Toon Defoer, published in the New Agriculturist, September 2012 |
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