Project Events | ICBA IDRC Quinoa Project

	1st National Workshop for Quinoa Promotion in Morocco UM6P university in collaboration with ICBA, have organized the first national workshop for quinoa promotion in Morocco. The purpose of this workshop was to promote the quinoa crop and its products and to showcase its agronomic and nutritional virtues through several activities of dissemination, cooking, exhibition, seminar, etc. several stakeholders were invited to this event including farmers, women's cooperatives, private agro-food companies, restaurants, media, government institutions, etc. read more
	Quinoa Production and Valorization and organic farming Place: Ben Guerir, Morocco Date: 24-28 September 2018 read more
	Training for agricultural extension agents and professionals about best practices to produce quinoa Place: UM6P University, Ben Guerir, Morocco. Date: 9^th August, 2018 The training was delivered by Dr. Hirich Abdelaziz (ICBA scientist), Dr. Choukr-Allah Redouane (Consultant) and Manal Mhada (UM6P Postdoc) for more than 30 participants from different organizations including: read more
	First meeting of the provincial project committee The meeting took in the office of the Governor of Rehamna and after the welcome of the governor to all participant, Dr. Choukr-Allah made a power presentation of the IDRC Quinoa project indicating the main objectives and main drivers of choosing the Rehamna zone and the Quinoa value chain. He also, explained the different phase of the project for developing the Business Model of the Quinoa Value Chain and the planning of the workplan as well as the partners involved in the project. read more
	Kick-off Meeting of IDRC funded project “Scaling up quinoa value chain to improve food and nutritional security in poor rural communities of Morocco” Several partners attended the meeting (DRA, DPA, ONSSA, NGO, ORMVA, Private, Local Authority ... etc.). The meeting was coincided with the visit of an Ethiopian delegation chaired by the Minister of State for Agriculture of Ethiopia at the University Mohamed VI Polytechnic who participated in the opening of the meeting. read more