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GlobalHort has one vision, one objective, four core activities:

• Promoting horticultural research for development
• A program of grants for horticultural research
• A knowledge hub for dispersed cooperating horticultural communities
• Facilitating horticultural training, education and capacity building

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Latest Announcements / Dernières annonces

The World Bank has joined together with GlobalHort, the European Union, and the ACP, to organize a series of interactive seminars that will focus on challenges facing high-value agriculture in Southern and Eastern Africa. The seminar content will address issues faced by fresh produce value chain stakeholders oriented toward local, regional and international export markets, and aims to identify potential solutions and specific steps to success. The brochure "High-Value Agriculture in Southern and Eastern Africa: A Series of Interactive Seminars on Challenges and Solutions, 2010-2011" provides details on this series. For date and contact information click here.

The third in the series will take place July 27, 2010 involving 5 countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and Madagasgar.  Topic:  Standards and Market Preferences: Opportunities and Constraints. This seminar will present an overview of recent standards and their corresponding certification schemes and will attempt to draft a way forward for the export horticultural industry.

Presentations and articles on completed seminar can be accessed here.

IHC Lisbon 2010

The 28th International Horticultural Congress, Aug. 22-27, 2010 Lisbon, Portugal under the patronage of ISHS.

Click here to visit the IHC website.  The pdf pamphlet is also available.

GlobalHort will be co-convenor of a Horticulture for Development Symposium. Its theme deals with how knowledge in horticultural sciences can alleviate poverty and fight malnutrition. Click here for Symposium details.

Urban and Peri-urban Horticulture in the Century of Cities

Published on 18^th Jul 2010

An international symposium, "Urban and Peri-urban Horticulture in the Century of Cities: Lessons, challenges, opportunities" will take place in Dakar, Senegal December 5-9, 2010.  The symposium is organized by FAO and Senegal’s Ministry of Agriculture with the partnership of GlobalHort, CIRAD and ISHS. The symposium will cover key links in the production, supply and value chains, including secure access to natural resources, integrated plant production and protection, post-harvest handling/processing technologies, product quality and safety, and marketing. The symposium is expected to provide guidance for the preparation of FAO’s report on the State of Urban and Peri-Urban Horticulture in Africa (SOUPHA), to be published in 2011.

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