Good cooperation with Japanese bank on micro-credit to Agricultural Cooperatives in Cambodia! Tekst and foto by Kjeld Vodder Nielsen Project Coordinator, ADDA- Cambodia The need of credit for the purchase of seed, manure, herd and feed etc. is great in Cambodia, but loans are expensive, and they are difficult to achieve. Micro-credit institutions (MFIs) lend … Read more
Support the Cambodian farmer families – give contribution to wells or rice banks! ADDA is again this year 2016, doing a collection for the poor rural families in the villages in Cambodia. The money collected will go to small development projects, such as wells for clean drinking water and water for crops, and safe storage … Read more
By Tove Bang It was a great and successful event since ADDA held workshops on ‘Women Farmers and Self-help Groups in Cambodia’ at 3 folk high schools in Denmark, namely Silkeborg, Rønde and Brenderup in late April and early May, when Mrs. Yun Sinang, ADDA’s project manager of the CISOM- project and Mr. Ouk Kimleng, … Read more
The boardmember of ADDA, Ove Gejl Christensen has been in Vietnam to follow one of 6 training modules in training of trainees (TOT) in the new CEMI project ´Climate Change and Ethnic Minorities in the Northern Vietnam´. It´s a three year project which intend to train farmers in mountainous areas in customizing their crops to … Read more
A new ADDA- project in Vietnam has been approved from the Danish donor CISU. The project – ”Legal Assistance to Contract Farming” – is intended to improve small scale farmers contracts, when they work in contract farming. All stakeholders involved in contract farming shall be strengthened in thier knowledge around legal aspects within contract farming. … Read more
By Marianne Nørgaard Jensby As part of my work as a project officer at ADDA in Denmark, I was in Tanzania in July to contribute to the ’NADO in Focus’ project. The main purpose of my visit was organisational development and capacity building of ADDA’s partner organisation NADO. There was, however, also time for field … Read more
ADDA´s article about ´Advocacy in Bak Nim´ has been chosen to cover the frontpage of WorldBestNews web-site, while the campaign is running from Sept. 11. – October 11. 2015. Also this year WBN will hand out 75000 World Best News newspapers and next to the campagn´s own newspaper, the cover of the Metro Express (365000 … Read more
Recently Danida Fellowship Centre facilitated a three-week international course in Sustainable Agriculture for NGO- leaders and cooperation partners of Danida- supported projects around the world. Participants from 11 nationalities were assembled and from ADDA´s cooperation organisations Mr. Ouern Ratana from CIDO (Community Based Integrated Development Organisation) Cambodia and Mr.John Wihallah from NADO (Njombe Agricultural Development … Read more
Thursday the 28. of May ADDA was having an event at KU Science about eco- certification of small scale farmers in developing countries. Through the event a mix of practical and theoretical views on possibilities and challenges in the process were discussed. Among the speakers were NADO director John Wihallah from ADDA´s partner organisation … Read more
It was very nice that so many showed their interest for ADDA´s work and projects at the yearly general meeting in ADDA on Kalø Økologiske Landbrugsskole d. 18. May. Good questions were asked through the process of the agenda, and at the coffee afterwards everybody stayed and had a talk. Thanks for the commitment to … Read more