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On March 1-2 APRC’s Senior Researcher Salome Gelashvili attended a regional learning workshop on Food Security and Nutrition organized by OXFAM in Dilijan, Armenia. The overall objective of the workshop was to improve the food security and nutrition policies in the South Caucasus region.
Salome presented findings of the APRC study “Assessing Food Security Data Relevance and Collection Mechanisms in the South Caucasus”. The goal of the study was to map the best international practices of food security data collection mechanisms and compare them to the existing data collection mechanisms in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The study identifies major gaps in data and develop specific recommendations for each country.
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On February 8, 2016 ISET hosted a workshop on Private Sector-led Agricultural Extension in Georgia. Organized by ISET in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, this workshop brought together chief executives of selected Georgian agribusinesses as well as representatives of the donor community, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Education and Science to discuss the possibilities for Public Private Partnerships (PPP) for developing effective agricultural extension services in the country.
The Ministry of Agriculture seeks to improve linkages between smallholder farmers and the private sector (food producers, retail networks, etc.). Both private companies and farmers would benefit from these linkages. During the meeting, representatives of private sector shared their experience in providing extension services to local farmers. Different models of contract farming were tried out by agribusinesses. Yet in most cases such collaborations were not very successful. Lack of knowledge and information were highlighted as main problems hindering the development of good cooperation with smallholders.
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