Knowledge Hub For Organic Agriculture in Africa

The Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture in Eastern Africa is part of the initiative by the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through its executing agency GIZ to support a network of regional knowledge hubs for organic farming in Africa. The initiative is coordinated by Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT) with co-hosting arrangements with Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM) Uganda in Eastern Africa and Rwanda Organic Agriculture Movement is the country Implementing Partner.

The goal of the project is to ensure that Ecological Organic Agriculture is integrated into the Eastern Africa agricultural systems. the project has 3 focus areas namely :

- Collecting / preparing of knowledge : Validated technical and methodological knowledge for the promotion of organic agriculture, including processing, is prepared for the context of the participating countries and stakeholder groups.

- Dissemination of knowledge : Validated knowledge, strategies and good practices in the field of organic agriculture, adapted to the contexts of the countries participating in the regional knowledge hubs, are disseminated to various target user groups.

- Networking within agricultural value chains : Key actors in the organic agriculture value chains of the participating countries in the three regions network in an exemplary manner for replication.

An international partner on the KCOA project, Access Agriculture translated into kinyarwanda 100 videos gathered from different countries. the videos showcases the different good agriculture practices and success storiesthat farmers can learn from, the videos are accessible on : https://www.accessagriculture.org/search/all/rw

Associate Partners

Center For Agroecology Practices and Conservation of Nature

Center for Agroecology Practices and Conservation of Nature (CAPCN) is part of the KCOA-KHEA project as associate partner supporting ROAM as Country Implementing Partner in development of Demosite.

Updates

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Farmer Market Day

A farmers market day event was conducted on the 4th March 2022 where 21 Farmers and trained multipliers were facilitated to showcase and exhibit th.... Read More

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Monitoring visit by Biovision Africa Trust (BvAT) to Rwanda Organic Agriculture Movement under the Ecological Organic Agriculture Initiative (EOA-I)

On 25th May 2022, the BvAT team represented by Dr. David Amudavi, Executive Director of BvAT, and Ms. Venancia Wambua, EOA-I Project Manager had a.... Read More

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Workshop on the curriculum development on agroforestry

ROAM conducted a 3 days’ workshop from 28th -30th March 2022 facilitated by Naturland Association. The workshop was aimed at the Curriculum Devel.... Read More

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Stakeholder’s & media envisioning workshop

For generations, media has proven to be one of the most powerful game changers influencing social (cultures and lifestyles), economic and political.... Read More

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Call for Abstracts for papers, posters and exhibitions

The Conference Organizing Committee of the 1st Eastern Africa Agroecology Conference to be held from 21st – 24th March 2023 invites calls for abs.... Read More

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STAKEHOLDERS’ WORKSHOP ON SELECTION OF VALUE CHAINS TO BE FOCUSED ON FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIGITALIZED TRAINING MATERIALS FOR FARMERS

On 23rd January 2023, Rwanda Organic Agriculture Movement (ROAM) organized a stakeholders’ workshop on value chains selection which took place in.... Read More