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Are you a grantmaker looking to enhance your understanding and use of Catalytic Capital in Africa? Look no further than African Venture Philanthropy Alliance, AVPA's upcoming webinar on Catalytic Capital: The Evolving Role of Philanthropy.

Are you a grantmaker looking to enhance your understanding and use of Catalytic Capital in Africa? Look no further than African Venture Philanthropy Alliance, AVPA’s upcoming webinar on Catalytic Capital: The Evolving Role of Philanthropy. This webinar, the first of three virtual events, is being held in preparation for AVPA’s Catalytic Investment training program for grantmakers, which will run…

What Makes a Free VPN the Best?

What makes a totally free VPN the very best? There are a few things to consider, including security, kill switch protection, IP/DNS leak protection, and data-usage plan. Also, you should choose one with enough band width to browse the internet without experiencing slow rates. A good free of charge VPN really should have multiple hosts and high speed connections. And, of course , it should be…

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Are you looking to join a dynamic team in Agricultural Processing and Product Marketing?

Here is an opportunity to join IllajInternational Limited. Illaj & Company offers a wide range of products for rural farmers and smallholder farmers. Its line of products includes Legend seeds, Legend rice, Legend flour and Native rice. Illaj’s vision is to lead the transformation of the farm…

The demand survey takes no more than 5 minutes while the supply survey takes an average of 5 minutes.

If you are an Agriculturist based in Lagos, Kano and Kaduna. Kindly click on the link below to take the survey.

Jobberman Agric Sector Skills Gaps Survey, Supply-Side

https://app.databeaver.co/generated-form/5eda51d5aaa25e798c3fa046

Jobberman Agric Sector Skills Gaps Survey - Demand-Side

https://app.databeaver.co/generated-form/5ed8ed159940332f0e0af315

The supply-side survey is to be taken by:

1. Mostly Job seekers in the Agric sector, partcularly the youth

2. People who are actively looking to work in the agric sector

3. People who are starting out and looking to grow in the agric field

4. Jobberman is also placing precedence on the female demographic in this sector.

The Demand-side survey can also be deployed to members of your organization who fit this description:

1. Employers of labor - Owners of agric related firms, senior management staff in an agric related firm.

Note

Each supply-side respondent receives airtime for taking the survey.

According to Euromonitor/WEF, Nigerians spend nearly 60% of house income on food, the highest in the world.

This statistics reinforces the role of farmers in food production. Farmers are plaqued with challenges due to drudgery – heavy physical power in tilling and ploughing processes, irrigation among others. Farmers also have to battle transportation barriers, lack of storage and…

From food supply shortages to panic-buying, to food price variations, to market access, the links in supply chains are breaking new ground towards making the 2008 recession look like child play, but we can learn new and valuable lessons for the future.

The dramatic spread of COVID-19 has very much disrupted lives, livelihoods, communities affecting food production, distribution and other value…

DEADLINE: 1 April 2020

About the Cliff-Grads Fellowship

Climate, Food and Farming – Global Research Alliance Development Scholarships (CLIFF-GRADS) is a joint initiative of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security and the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA).

During their tenure at the host institutions, grant recipients learn…

Deadline: February 7, 2019

In a bid to democratize opportunities for youths in Agriculture, we would be supporting youths in urban areas to make money from the production of high quality agric produce.

In collaboration with AgriLab Initiative & Urban Farm Academy, MyFarmbase Africa is hosting a training course on Climate Smart Agriculture.

Climate-smart Agriculture institute

Part…

Inaugural Call for Applications to MSc & Advanced Short Courses : Agricultural Research and Innovation Fellowship for Africa (ARIFA)

Deadline: June 30 2019

The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) has launched the Agricultural Research and Innovation Fellowship for Africa (ARIFA), a capacity development component of its  Holistic Empowerment for Livelihoods Program (HELP), which  aims to produce a new generation of fit-for-purpose workforce to re-engineer African agri-food sector to provide the change factor for…

Crude Oil Theft and its effect on the Nigerian Economy and Environment

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Crude oil theft is a complex problem with economic, environmental and security implications for Nigeria as a whole. Over the years Nigeria has sole depended on crude oil for its economic development. Oil theft has grown from a localised, small scale activity into a multi-million-dollar illegal industry involving many stakeholders.

Nigeria is the sixth largest oil…

General Electric Launches 2018 Lagos Garage skills training program for entrepreneurs

On the 14th of May, 2018, the sixth edition of General Electric’s (GE)manufacturing training Garage for hardware entrepreneurs is scheduled to take off in Lagos, Nigeria. The Garage is a four-week training program dedicated to accelerating the impact of Nigeria’s most promising hardware entrepreneurs through the utilization of advanced manufacturing technologies. Selected participants will be…

Access Bank secures at least $250m to finance the MSME sector

Access Bank Plc disclosed at the weekend that it has so far secured at least $250 million from multilateral agencies for financing as low interest funds to the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sub-sector of the Nigerian economy.

The bank therefore expressed its readiness to provide funding support as well as qualitative…

CORAF / WECARD officially launches a project on youths mentoring program for Agripreneurship

The West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD) with support of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has officially launched the project on “Empowering Youths for Agripreneurship in West Africa” on June 23, 2016 in Dakar Senegal.

This project aims to create entrepreneurial opportunities for 1,000 youths in agriculture to contribute to the sustainable…