
The
training was organized by a project of the ‘Green Innovation Center’ set up at
AfricaRice research station in Benin with support from the German Ministry for
Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) as part of its special initiative ‘One
World, No Hunger’.

The
project has three main objectives:
- To make agricultural innovations available to rural farming communities
- To train and then employ young, unemployed persons to transfer innovation, knowledge and know-how within the rural communities
- To help the country’s agricultural colleges to provide training to young people and improve colleges’ access to innovations and training material
The
trained service providers will be paid for the different agricultural services that
they will provide to rural communities. They will help collect data and
identify agricultural best practice as well as opportunities for innovation. In
the process, the service providers will learn to run their own rural
enterprises.
The
data collected by service providers will indicate the need for other services responding
to farmers’ needs, such as training courses and technology transfers from
research to farmers to improve their livelihoods. In this way, the project will
improve the interaction between farmers and researchers and will ensure that solutions
provided by researchers will meet farmers’ needs
The
training in Bohicon included hands-on session on computers, discussions and field
visits to test innovations, data collection tools and procedures. At the end of
the course, each trainee received a certificate.
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