What: Discover Africa Meeting Where: The Hague When: 8 & 9 February 2018 The booming urban markets provide business opportunities for those African farmers and agri-food entrepreneurs that are able to supply the urban consumers with fresh and healthy food, such as vegetables, fruit, poultry, dairy products and […]
In this bulletin you can read about the UN’s Decade of Action on Nutrtion 2015-2025 in an interview with Dr. Melle Leenstra:
Since some time Agromisa is facing a problem with the webshop. According to the message clients get after filling in the order form “shipping methods are required“. We are working hard to get this problem solved. In the mean time you can order publications by sending us an e-mail with the titles you would like to order. […]
The Financial Report Agromisa 2016 is now available.
Four students from the AERES Hoge School (formerly STOAS) in Wageningen are developing materials that can be used in class and on school farms in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. This Agromisa assignment is part of their study programme. The students – Janneke Timmerman, Carli Harteman, Berber Wiersema and Nicholai Boddou are following the Education and […]
Agromisa Consultation Meeting On 8 March 2017, Agromisa had a meeting with a group of 29 volunteers to brainstorm about new ideas for the future of the organisation. Bringing people with different backgrounds and experiences together generated dynamic discussions and many interesting ideas emerged. The meeting also had an important social function and strengthened the […]
The main aim of the UN’s Decade of Action on Nutrition 2015-2025 is to work with international and national organisations to promote technologies and practices that support sustainable food production and protect the livelihoods of rural households. The UN advocates a food systems approach which includes taking into account the way the processing, storage, transportation, […]
The latest Agrodok on Beef production, Agrodok 55, has been added to the new Agrodok list. The complete list can be downloaded in English and French.
This statement was in the title of the symposium Together strong for a reduction in antibiotics and a more natural approach to livestock farming, organised by Natuurlijke Veehouderij (Natural Livestock Farming) in Zwolle in November 2016. The conference hall was packed with farmers, farmers’ representatives, researchers and students from Wageningen University as well as staff […]
AREAS Hogeschool in Wageningen specialises in training students who will later work in the ‘green’ sector. One of its programmes is a bachelor in education; Agromisa was again invited to take part in the Hogeschool’s annual werkplekkenmarkt (workplace market). Schools, companies and farming organisation were amongst those who sent representatives to the market. Like Agromisa, […]
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