1st continental Agri-Business Incubation Conference

Starting small is one inevitable. 

But staying small is inexcusable 

~ Prof. C. Kwesiga

28 -30 September 2015. Kenyatta International Convention Center (KICC), Nairobi, Kenya. The African Agribusiness Incubator Network (AAIN) has organised the 1st continental Agri-Business Incubation Conference & Expo in Africa, 2015.

This conference aims to create awareness about the opportunities that are available in agribusiness incubation and agribusiness sector for start-ups, SMEs and established agribusiness ventures.

Conference Themes

• Agribusiness Incubation for inclusive development in Africa
• Successful business modules for agribusiness incubation
• Agro-Technologies for commercialisation/new business prospects
• Gender mainstreaming in agribusiness incubation
• Enabling African Agribusiness ecosystem
• Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) & Technology Commercialization
• Agro Value chain and market devpt for agribusiness incubation
• Fuelling agribusiness through agriculture value chain finance
• Youth engagement and capacity building for sustainable agribusiness in Africa

29/09/2015 PAEPARD side event.

PAEPARD showcased the multi-stakeholder innovation partnerships it has been facilitating, especially the Users’ Led Process (ULP) in which non-research stakeholders are leading some consortia towards the engagement of key stakeholders in the ARD processes.

Since 2010, PAEPARD has facilitated the creation of 19 African-European multi-stakeholder consortia to which 5 ULPs have been added in the end of 2011 as follows:

1- Extensive Livestock value chain in Eastern Africa with Specific focus on Kenya and Uganda. 

EAFF.

2- Urban horticulture value chain in Central Africa with specific focus on Congo Brazzaville, DR Congo & Cameroon. PROPAC.

Patrice Sewade of Sojagnon

3- Rice value chain in West-Africa with specific focus on Benin, Burkina Faso and Mali. ROPPA.
4- Aflatoxin in groundnut value chain in Zambia & Malawi. FANRPAN.
5- Adding value to mango non-food uses in West Africa with specific focus on Burkina-Faso, Côte d’Ivoire & Senegal. COLEACP.

The AAIN conference in general and side event in particular offers an opportunity to profile the project in general and ULP approach in particular.

SOJAGNON-NGO And ProSAM consortium of Benin 

Exhibition of soybean products.

Objectives:

• To profile PAEPARD II project in general and the ULP of EAFF in particular; 
• To discuss and share lessons learnt from PAEPARD and ULP with participants 
• To discuss issues related to funding the multi-stakeholder partnerships programs: at global, regional and national levels