GlobalHort Leaflet O.. - The Global Horticulture Initiative

Advocating for greater support of
‘H4D’ initiatives worldwide
THE ALL AFRICA HORTICULTURE CONGRESS (AAHC) 2009 AND 2012
GlobalHort facilitated the emergence and the spirit of an all Africa horticulture event run by and for the African community of horticulturists. This first continental
congress in 2009 gathered a full array of stakeholders of the horticulture sector in Nairobi, Kenya. It was placed under both
regional (East African countries) and international auspices with the sponsorship and support of GlobalHort and the
International Society for Horticulture Science (ISHS). The resolutions arising from this congress were supported by African and
international organizations: NEPAD, ISHS and FAO in particular. The second AAHC was held in 2012 in South Africa. Again,
GlobalHort played a facilitator’s role in the organization of information side events and in the production of resolutions:
1. Promotion of fruits and vegetables for heath (PROFAV/PROFEL)
2. How horticulture contributes to a secure food city supply (FAO initiatives: Growing Greener Cities, Status of Urban
and Periurban Horticulture in Africa, Food for the Cities)
3. Horticultural biodiversity: How it can nurture and nourish Africa in the 21 st century (Diversity for Development
Alliance supported by GFAR, Save and Grow concept promoted by FAO)
4. Higher education in horticulture in Africa: How can the scientific community mobilize the policy makers (TEAM-­‐
Africa promoted by Agrinatura)
The Congress voted for the Horticultural Society of Nigeria to host the AAHC in 2016 in Lagos, Nigeria, in co-­‐organization with Ghana.
http://www.globalhort.org/news-­‐events/all-­‐africa-­‐horticulture-­‐congress/
PROMOTION OF VEGETABLES AND FRUIT FOR HEALTH (PROFAV/PROFEL) SINCE 2007
The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Ghana Institute of Horticulturalists (GhIH) used the PROVAF theme to boost the
intersectorial partnership among Agriculture, Health and Education. FAO, WHO and GlobalHort were present to
follow up the recommendations from the PROFAV regional workshop of 2011 in Arusha, Tanzania. A similar
workshop PROFEL was organized for francophone tropical Africa in 2007 in Yaoundé, Cameroon. -­‐ The overriding
aim is to promote health through improved nutrition, diet/crop diversification and production/handling practices.
http://www.globalhort.org/network-­‐communities/horticulture-­‐health/
“HORT FOR DEV” SYMPOSIUM AT THE 28TH INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL CONGRESS (IHC) IN LISBON
GlobalHort and KARI (Kenya) were co-­‐convened the Horticulture for Development Symposium at the Congress.
GlobalHort is proud of the fact that there was a Horticulture for Development symposium incorporated into the Lisbon
IHC – the first time that this topic has been so prominently
featured by the ISHS. This initiative was very much
supported by ISHS leadership and is in the same spirit as
the move to support regional Congresses in Africa and Asia
between each IHC. The Proceedings have been published
in a volume of Acta Horticulturae (N°921) available at http://www.actahort.org/books/921/index.htm
PROVIDING LEADERSHIP OF THE DIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE
(D4D) 2011 AND 2012
Future Plans
Preparation for events:
• GCARD2012, Punta del
Este, Honduras
• IHC2014, Brisbane,
Australia
• AAHC2016, Lagos, Nigeria
GlobalHort and a number of other international organizations and agencies with a common interest in
promoting agrobiodiversity attended brainstorming workshops in 2011 and 2012. These organizations
champion plants and crops they consider as neglected or under-­‐utilized
within the context of achieving important international development
goals. From the latest workshop in Rome arose the Diversity for
Development Alliance (D4D) and an action plan that included
publications and advocacy during the Global Conference on Agricultural
Research for Development (GCARD II) in 2012, Uruguay
http://www.globalhort.org/activities/advocacy/
Publication for scientific papers
and advocacy
Policy briefs on agrobiodiversity,
nutrition and food city supply

Connecting and informing the
diverse and dispersed community
of ‘H4D’ professionals
GlobalHort Resources www.globalhort.org
A Web portal freely offering knowledge products to the horticulture
for development community:
• Search engine focused on databases from specialized
partners in horticulture and nutrition
• E-­‐Newsletter to a mailing list of over 1,000 recipients
• Hosts pages for special interest groups like Urban
Horticulture or Horticulture for Health
• NEW-­‐ GlobalHort Image Library -­‐ a bilingual (English and French)
central repository of high-­‐resolution “creative commons licensed” images/
digital objects including photos, tables, and other illustrative material that
can be used by our partners and others to help promote H4D
And Links to partners’ knowledge tools:
• African Crop Calendar Database (FAO)
• Global Horticulture Knowledge Bank (HortCRSP)
• Global Map of Horticultural Projects (HortCRSP)
• Hortivar (FAO)
• NewCrops (Purdue)
• Plantwise (CABI)
Future Plans
Work more closely with our
partners:
• Shared platform
• Joint photo database
• Joint calendar of events
• Joint mailing list
Enhanced web portal with
interactive sites
Connecting and informing the
Network of regional website
managers (Africa)
diverse and dispersed community
Joint editorial board for
of ‘H4D’ professionals
additional e-newsletters (AAHC,
PROVAF, Tertiary Education)

Facilitating research for development
projects addressing key constraints to
achieving the GlobalHort mission
BioNetAgro
GlobalHort partner, Horticulture CRSP, has co-­‐funded this project that studies low cost pest
exclusion and microclimate modification technologies for small-­‐scale vegetable growers in East
and West Africa. A Tanzanian company, A to Z Textile Mills, member of a large consortium
partners, is designing and manufacturing specific Agrinets so that farmers can use them to cover
horticultural crops and prevent them from pest attacks. Agrinet technology is being monitored
and evaluated to verify that changes brought by the nets over the vegetable crops are cost-­effective
and environmentally friendly.
http://www.bionetagro.org/
REGIONAL POSTHARVEST TRAINING CENTER IN SUB-­‐SAHARAN AFRICA
This unique pilot project, funded by Horticulture CRSP, will combine a wide
variety of training programs, adaptive research and demonstrations of
postharvest services. It will also provide access to needed tools and supplies in
order to reduce postharvest losses and improve market access and incomes for
smallholder women farmers in Tanzania. The project site in Tanzania, at the
World Vegetable Center's regional office in Arusha (AVRDC-­‐RCA), will serve as
a model for postharvest development in five additional Sub-­‐Saharan countries,
whose representatives will participate via collaboration with African partners.
By the close of project, 30 postharvest specialists from the six countries
involved in Sub-­‐Saharan Africa will be well qualified to implement enhanced
postharvest handling techniques. They will be charged to teach these techniques to approximately 1,000 women farmers in their
home countries.
http://www.postharvest.org/
RECIPES FOR SUCCESS
This GlobalHort-­‐funded and GlobalHort-­‐coached one-­‐year project aimed to
improve health and nutrition through the greater production and
consumption of under-­‐utilized indigenous African fruits and vegetables.
“Recipes for Success” was
coordinated by Crops for the
Future and involved three
countries in West and East Africa
(Kenya, Tanzania and Benin).
The central piece of this project
was the establishment of “Health
Clubs”. These are community-­‐run
resource centers, where farmers
could receive information about
healthy eating habits, learn
about cookery and food processing and get advice on indigenous fruit and
vegetable species. Here they could access information about production and
market opportunities and purchase quality seed of priority species.
http://www.globalhort.org/activities/research-­‐grants/recipes-­‐success/
Future Plans
Use the potential of FAO to
enable the environment of
netting in small-scale
horticulture
Partnership in postharvest
technologies with Horticulture
CRSP’s Centers of Excellence
initiative
Incorporate consumers' needs
and education in future
proposals, school based
programs in particular

Building the indigenous human capacity
required to support smallholders
investing in horticultural enterprise
HIGHER EDUCATION IN HORTICULTURE FOR DEVELOPMENT
Higher education, covering academic curricula and professional training on
horticulture in Africa, was discussed during a side event at the AAHC2012,
and GlobalHort was mandated to map the present situation. The networks
of ANAFE (African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural
Resources Education), RUFORUM (Regional Universities Forum for Capacity
Building in Agriculture), FARA (Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa)
and GlobalHort have worked together to produce and send out a
questionnaire focusing on existing capacities in Africa. The results were
presented at the TEAM-­‐Africa workshop in Wageningen and published in
Chronica Horticulturae (June 2012).
A “Higher Education for Development in Horticulture: An International
Seminar” was held at AgroCampus, Angers, France, June 2012 in synergy
with the 2nd Symposium on Horticulture in Europe (SHE2012). This seminar stimulated exchanges and experiences among
universities in developing countries, and compared them with universities in Europe, North America and Australia. A series of
applied actions from this seminar was approved, including the maintenance of an active network, the updating and improvement
of the 2012 survey, and the preparation of project proposals such as EDULINK (2012).
http://www.globalhort.org/activities/capacity-­‐building/
VIDEOCONFERENCES ON HIGH VALUE MARKETS IN AFRICA
During 2010 GlobalHort was mandated by The World Bank to coordinate a series
of 7 seminars on topics related to
regional trade of horticultural produce in
Eastern and Southern Africa (part of EU-­‐
AAACP funded program). The network
thus established, involving National
Coordinators and Global Development
Learning Centers, is being used to identify
constraints and develop national
strategic plans for horticulture industry
development. The first identified constraint is the lack of information for
assuring the supply of fresh fruits and vegetables for Africa’s rapidly growing
cities.
http://www.globalhort.org/activities/regional-­‐coordination/
Future Plans
Promote the Agrinatura
European curriculum for
International Master and
Doctorate Degrees
Partner with FAO to develop a
methodology for
characterizing fruit and
vegetable city supply in the
region
Develop regional innovation
platforms in Africa

Mission of GlobalHort –‘H4D’
Horticulture for Development
To create wealth and improve human health and wellbeing in
the world’s poorest countries through increased production,
consumption, processing and marketing of fruits and
vegetables and other horticultural crops
CORE ACTIVITIES
Ø Advocating for greater support of ‘H4D’ initiatives worldwide
Ø Connecting and informing the diverse and dispersed
community of ‘H4D’ professionals
Ø Facilitating research for development projects addressing key
constraints to achieving the GlobalHort mission
Ø Building the indigenous human capacity required to support
smallholders investing in horticultural enterprise
Board Chair
Norman E. Looney
Board Members
Remi Kahane
Past President – International Society for Horticultural Science
Principal Scientist Emeritus
Pacific Agri-­‐Food Research Centre
Summerland, B.C.V0H 1Z0 CANADA
Tel: (1) 250-­‐494-­‐6361
norman.looney@agr.gc.ca
Executive Secretary
Remi Kahane
GlobalHort
c/o FAO-­‐AGP
Via delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Rome, ITALY
Tel: (39) 0657053139
globalhort@globalhort.org