New news from WorldVeg West and Central Africa
As we strive to share ever more of our many activities and impacts, our West and Central Africa center now has a new newsletter, that will become a regularly feature, in addition to postings on their webpages and social media channels – D regions / CH regions | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn
In French and English, the newsletter is full of colorful pictures, fascinating stories and testimonials from project beneficiaries. From the SafeVeg project, we read about the official launch of improved vegetable seed kit distribution to market gardeners in Benin, advances in Burkina Faso, showcasing new climate-resilient vegetable varieties in Mali, training of 500 farmers in Benin on the identification of pests and diseases of vegetable crops, producers in Burkina Faso’s Hauts Bassin region selecting onion and tomato varieties, and training farmers in Mali on how to produce high quality vegetable seed. From other projects, we hear about how smallholders in Ghana are learning how to increase tomato yields sustainably, and about empowering women and beating hunger through market gardening in Mali. There are also interviews with three ‘vegetable business networks’ that have benefitted from the SafeVeg project, a ‘focus on technologies’ section that details the zero energy cold chamber (ZECC) that WorldVeg promotes to reduce postharvest losses, and an ‘events’ section that in this edition shows how International Women’s Day was celebrated in different office in the region. We hope that you will enjoy reading about all the latest news from WorldVeg’s work in West and Central Africa.
