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My name is Alexandra Spieldoch. I am the Executive Director of Compatible Technology International (CTI), which hopes to strengthen African value chains by designing postharvest technologies with and for African women smallholders as well as to provide needed training (technical, business, food safety) and new opportunities product development. We are most interested in incentivizing African supply chain partners for local manufacturing (or at least, final assembly) and distribution. Some of the challenges we see include too much emphasis on th innovations themselves and much less emphasis on the distribution challenges. Other challenges include the lack of financial capital to explore emerging markets. In addition to women farmers needing access to credit and loans, there is also a need to invest in setting up the ecosysem of partnerships with private sector partners. Last August 2015, CTI organized a national platform on postharvest challenges/opportunities for women in Senegal. We hope to organize a 2nd one on July 20th that looks not only at Senegal but also at West Africa as a whole. I invite anyone who can make it to attend!
FYI, in Senegal, we are working to strengthen the pearl millet value chain with a tool that strips/threshes and winnows the grain. In Southern Africa, we are focused simple technologies for groundnut value chains and the importance of aflatoxin free food for consumption and sale.
Lastly, we have partnerships with companies like General Mills, Buhler (which is the largest food technology company in the world), Cargill, etc. which bring important knowledge and expertise to the programs we are working. My vision is to have a network of women leaders in agro-processing FEEDING AFRICA with financial support from the multilateral and regional banks as well as the private food sector.
I am honored to participate in this group and to learn from and listen to you,
postharvest opportunities and challenges for African women
Soumis par Alexandra Spieldoch le lun, 03/07/2017 - 18:43 Permalien
My name is Alexandra Spieldoch. I am the Executive Director of Compatible Technology International (CTI), which hopes to strengthen African value chains by designing postharvest technologies with and for African women smallholders as well as to provide needed training (technical, business, food safety) and new opportunities product development. We are most interested in incentivizing African supply chain partners for local manufacturing (or at least, final assembly) and distribution. Some of the challenges we see include too much emphasis on th innovations themselves and much less emphasis on the distribution challenges. Other challenges include the lack of financial capital to explore emerging markets. In addition to women farmers needing access to credit and loans, there is also a need to invest in setting up the ecosysem of partnerships with private sector partners. Last August 2015, CTI organized a national platform on postharvest challenges/opportunities for women in Senegal. We hope to organize a 2nd one on July 20th that looks not only at Senegal but also at West Africa as a whole. I invite anyone who can make it to attend!
FYI, in Senegal, we are working to strengthen the pearl millet value chain with a tool that strips/threshes and winnows the grain. In Southern Africa, we are focused simple technologies for groundnut value chains and the importance of aflatoxin free food for consumption and sale.
Lastly, we have partnerships with companies like General Mills, Buhler (which is the largest food technology company in the world), Cargill, etc. which bring important knowledge and expertise to the programs we are working. My vision is to have a network of women leaders in agro-processing FEEDING AFRICA with financial support from the multilateral and regional banks as well as the private food sector.
I am honored to participate in this group and to learn from and listen to you,
Alexandra (alexandra@compatibletechnology.org)
www.compatibletechnology.org