ISRAELI
AGRONOMIST TO DELIVER PAPER AT RMRDC SEMINAR
As part of strategies to build
capacity in the rural populace for resources and entrepreneurial
skills acquisition, development and management the Raw Materials Research and
Development Council (RMRDC), in conjunction with Dipton Investment
and Trade Ltd (DILT) is organizing a two-day training workshop to
commence from 27th – 28th August, 2007, at the
Headquarters of RMRDC.
The Workshop which is coming at
the heels of a just concluded Agribusiness forum titled “Chain and
Innovation in the Global Food System” held at the Food and
Agricultural Organization (FAO) Headquarters, Rome, Italy recently,
will among other things consider Innovative entrepreneur in
subsistence economy, global perspectives in rural and agricultural
financing, public-private partnership (PPP) in agriculture, and
capacity building in agri-business.
Dr. Illan Bijaoin, world renowned
expert and Director of International Business and Innovation
Institute, Ashkelon, Israel, will also be expected to serve as major
speaker at the seminar which has been designed by the organizers to
bring the decisions at the last conference in Rome to bear on the
current economic policy of the present administration as it relates
to poverty alleviation, employment generation, wealth creation,
transfer of skills capacity building and other trickle down
benefits.
The forum, titled "Innovation
Strategy in Agribusiness," will be open to Policy makers,
researchers, prospective investors, industrialists and other
relevant stakeholders from bothe the public and private sectors of
the economy.