Fred Vubem
26 January 2009
The meeting will be preceded by a workshop to present the marketing of pre-cooked cassava.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD will from January 27 to 30, in Douala, be holding a regional meeting on the implementation of IFAD sponsored projects in West and central Africa. The meeting to be attended by over 120 participants drawn from over 24 countries including project directors, government representatives, grant coordinators, CI representatives (UNOPS, BOAD, WB, AfDB), NGO collaborators and/or farmer representatives and IFAD staff and consultants. IFAD Assistant President for Programme Management Department (AP/PMD) will also travel to Cameroon for the workshop.
The meeting will be opened by the Vice Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Jean Nkuete.
The regional implementation workshop which will be held for the first time in Central Africa will provide an opportunity to highlight IFAD and its partner's complementary and joint work in the field of agriculture, food security and poverty reduction in both western and central Africa, raise profile of IFAD's work through its grant and loan portfolio in Western and Central Africa among key stakeholders, governments, bi and multilaterals institutions and development partners, present IFAD's orientations, approaches and initiatives regarding issues such as climate change, rising food prices, etc and project implementation as well as advocate for increasing attention to and investments in rural and agricultural development by national governments and the donor community
Meanwhile prior to the meeting, the Regional Initiative for the Transformation and Marketing of Cassava sponsored by the Italian government, in partnership with the Market-Driven Roots and Tubers project, PNDRT, are today organising a workshop to present the results of a research on the possibility of producing pre-cooked cassava, sterilised and packaged.
The workshop will focus on a market study portraying the potential demand in new cassava derivatives, a technical study identifying the type of technology necessary for its production and financial analysis depicting the profitability and sustainability of this new activity in the long term.
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