IDC organised or co-facilitated 10 ValueLinks training seminars with 207 participants in 2024:

1) ValueLinks 2.0 Training Seminar in Yaoundé, Cameroun. 12 participants joined the seminar organised in cooperation with our Cameroonian partner company Ecotrading Sarl whose director Dr. Guy Merlin Nguenang co-facilitated the seminar.

2) ValueLinks 2.0 Training Seminars in Bangalore and New Delhi, India, with 43 participants. The seminars were organised by the GIZ projects Green Innovation Centres for the Agriculture and Food Sector (GIC) in cooperation with the project “Sustainable agricultural systems and agriculture” (AgSys). The seminars were co-facilitated by Kavita Bhardvaj and Umesh Kumar from the GIC project.

3) ValueLinks 2.0 Training Seminar in Bogota, Colombia, with 30 participants. The seminar in Spanish language was co-organised with ECO-Consult and conducted by Fernando Camargo and Gunter Viteri.

4) ValueLinks 2.0 Training Seminar in Tiflis, Georgia. 19 participants from 5 countries joined the training organised by the GIZ project Promoting Green Deal Readiness in the Eastern Partnership Countries (ProGRess).

5) ValueLinks 2.0 Training Seminar in Wa, Ghana, with 30 participants. The seminar was organised by the GIZ project Market-Oriented Agriculture Programme in North-West Ghana (MOAP-NW) and co-facilitated by Mr. Issah Nadjo from MOAP-NW.

6) ValueLinks for Agrifood Systems (VL4AFS) Training Seminar in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany, with 14 participants from 7 countries. The seminar organised by IDC was co-facilitated with Dr. Andreas Springer-Heinze and Dr. Annemarie Matthess from the ValueLinks Association.

7) ValueLinks 2.0 Training Seminar in Jacqueville, Côte d’Ivoire, with 22 participants. The seminar was organised in cooperation with Promak Afric whose director Magès Nangui co-facilitated the seminar.

8) ValueLinks 2.0 Training Seminars in Jimma and Bishoftu, Ethiopia, with 37 participants. The seminars were organised in cooperation with our Ethiopian partner company Green Agro Solutions. The semimars were co-facilitated with Dr. Fikadu Mitiku, President of Arsi University in Ethiopia, and Zewdu Abekulu from the Ministry of Agriculture in Ethiopia.

We will continue organising ValueLinks seminars in 2025. Seminars under preparation include Cameroon, Colombia, Germany, Cambodia, Côte d’Ivoire and Ethiopia, and will be published at this website few months in advance.