{"id":1505,"date":"2015-09-12T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oaic.org\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2015-09-12T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T09:24:00","slug":"farmer-review-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oaic.org\/newsite\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Resource Persons Review Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Farmers-Resource-Persons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1508\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oaic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Farmers-Resource-Persons-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"Farmers Resource Persons\" width=\"500\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Farmer\u2019s Review Workshop organised by OAIC will take place at the JJ McCarthy Centre in Nairobi between 17<sup>th <\/sup>and 18<sup>th<\/sup> of September 2015. With a key focus area of livelihoods and food security OAIC is working under one major goal: <em>Action for Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Security.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is against this backdrop that OAIC seeks to build capacity for farmers to ensure an increase in yields. Through trainings and provision of sufficient information, OAIC set up 4 project sites in 2014. Makueni; Vihiga; West Pokot and Machakos as well as in Uganda and Tanzania. Farmer Resource Persons were selected to coordinate these activities at the County level.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop is thus an opportunity to review progress since the process commenced a year ago. It will be a forum to deliberate on issues arising in the field; challenges as well as farmer best practices. \u00a0Resource Persons with extensive experience in extension service provisions; Value Chain management and other areas of interest from both the public and private sector will address the forum.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Farmer\u2019s Review Workshop organised by OAIC will take place at the JJ McCarthy Centre in Nairobi between 17th and 18th of September 2015. With a key focus area of livelihoods and food security OAIC is working under one major goal: Action for Agriculture, Food and Nutritional Security. It is against this backdrop that OAIC &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oaic.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oaic.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oaic.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oaic.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oaic.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oaic.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oaic.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oaic.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oaic.org\/newsite\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}