Participation of the Marketplace Team on GCARD II

On October 29^th, the Marketplace team presented the Africa-Brazil and LAC-Brazil initiatives during the GCARD II, in the session “North-South and South-South Collective Actions”. The session was attended by approximately 70 people and had presentation by, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Conseil Ouest et Centre Africain pour la Recherche et le Développement Agricoles / West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF/WECARD), European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD/AGRINATURA) and Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), followed by a discussion among presents and the audience.

The presentation of the Marketplace during the GCARD II.

There was quite an interested in the Marketplace with questions like: "In the future, you can expand the Marketplace to other continents?", "What were the benefits achieved to date by the Agricultural Innovation Marketplace?" and "How can we participate in new calls for project selection?".

By the way, new call for proposals coming up soon, so stay turned!

The Marketplace Team will participate in theSecond Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD)

The GCARD II is being held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, 29 October – 1 November, 2012 and the Marketplace Team is participating with the goal to promote the strengthening of Agricultural Innovation Marketplaces, share ideas and learn from other activities which foster south-south collaboration.

Check GCARD II at www.egfar.org/gcard-2012/about-gcard2

DFID and Marketplace Team will participate in the National Week of Science and Technology – Join us!

The British Embassy has prepared a special program at the National Week of Science and Technology to promote lectures, workshops and showing films on major partnerships between the UK and Brazil in the areas of science and technology. As a partner of The Department for International Development, DFID, in the Africa-Brazil Agricultural Innovation Marketplace, the Marketplace Team will be participating in this event on Saturday, October 20th from 10:30am to 12:00pm. The event will take place at the Chico Mendes auditorium, at the Parque da Cidade in Brasilia, Brazil. We invite you to learn a little more about this partnership involving Embrapa, DFID and several other partners in developing research projects in the African continent (www.africa-brazil.org).

We´re looking forward to see you there!

The Marketplace is pleased to inform you that the projects selected in the last round of  call for proposals are been finalized and disbursements will take place very soon!

Dear colleagues,

The Marketplace Team is pleased to share with you an overview of the 
Africa-Brazil-LAC Forum 2012!

Check out accessing the link below:

http://transfer.sede.embrapa.br/Marketplace/Forum_2012_overview_final_doc_10_sp_2012.zip

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Marketplace gives award to Concept Note 

submitted during the Forum 2012

During the Forum 2012, Embrapa launched an initiative to stimulate exchanges between Africa and Latin America and Caribbean countries. Participants from Africa and Latin America and Caribbean countries, except Brazil, were given the opportunity to pair up and present a one-page Concept Note (CN) outlining an idea for potential collaboration.

We received 11 CNs from several countries including Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Jamaica, Cuba, Uruguay, Argentina, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. The CNs were evaluated by a team at Embrapa based on quality, relevance, feasability, and compliance with format.

We are pleased to inform you the Concept Note titled “Exploring Natural Variation in Cassava for Drought Tolerance” from the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, and the Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela, has been awarded the prize: one travel for one of the co-authors to the other author´s institution so they can better interact and further develop their idea.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you again for your participation. Congratulations to the co-authors of CN selected, Flora Ismail and Ramon Jaimez.

The Marketplace Team is happy to receive feedbacks from participants of the Marketplace Forum 2012 and wants to share them with you all!

 

See below some comments we received from participants:

“It was great to attend and to participate in the Forum. Cumulatively, the Forum was a success for bringing together scientists in a great range of fields from Africa-Brazil-LAC with the dual aim to information exchange and linkage between the specialists. Also, any forum of this size cannot proceed without a dedicated team behind the scenes, largely invisible, but without whom things could not function as they should within the beautiful city of Brasilia and the fine country of Brazil. In this regard, we owe you all THANKS. Looking forward for further linkage in such related events. With kind regards.”
Cornel R. S. Massawe


“I want to congratulate for the organization of the event. It was excellent. It was especially important that the Forum was evaluated by participants. I think It will help you to improve next events. In general you were very precise. I hope to visit you again. Regards.”
Ramón E. Jaimez