Can agricultural extension services have a role in helping farmers with marketing? In Cameroon the answer is ?Yes?. A government marketing adviser describes the methods he uses to link farmers to buyers, and make their products more marketable.
An agricultural economist from the Nigerian Ministry of Agriculture describes the impact of the abolishment of the Cocoa Marketing Board, and recommends that the board should be reinstated and other supports given in order to restore cocoa production and encourage young people to enter the business.
Busani Bafana talks to Inviolatta Moyo of the Western Region Foundation in Zimbabwe, an organisation that puts great emphasis on training its project holders in business skills.
Our second report comes from The Gambia, where Ismaila Senghore spoke to Fatou Sarr, a training officer at the Promotion Centre of the Village Indigenous Savings and Credit Associations, commonly called VISACAs. He discovered that the associations had a strong sense of ownership, not least becaus...
Susan Bamuh, President of the National Association of Professional Media Women in Cameroon discusses the importance of women being able to inherit and own land.
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Land rights needed for agricultural development
Moses Kilusu grows ornamental flowers in order to harvest their seed, on his farm near Arusha in Tanzania. He works under contract to the Multiflower company.