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PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS



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PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS



  1. Humidtropics Program Gender Workshop, Entebbe, Uganda, October 30 - November 1, 2013.



  1. Inception Workshop of the Australia Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) funded Project “Improving Income and Nutrition in Eastern and Southern Africa by Enhancing Vegetable-based Farming and Food Systems in Peri-Urban corridors” led by AVRDC, Arusha, Tanzania, October1-4, 2013.



  1. Inception Workshop of the CORAF/WECARD funded Project “ Enhancing Productivity, Competiveness and Marketing of Traditional African Vegetable for Improve Income and Nutrition in West and Central Africa” led by AVRDC, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, September 16-18, 2013.




  1. Second Research Review and Planning Meeting for the Africa RISING – East and Southern Africa Project – Lilongwe, Malawi, September 3- 5, 2013.




  1. West Africa Humid Lowlands Action Area Launching Workshop of the Integrated Agricultural Systems for the Humid tropics (Humidtropics) Program of the CGIAR, Bukavu, Ibadan and Oshogbo, June 9-15, 2013.



  1. Inception Workshop of the Creating Homestead Agriculture for Nutrition and Gender Equity, (CHANGE): Africa Enhanced Homestead Food Production Project funded by CIDA and led by Helen Keller International, ILRI Campus, Nairobi, Kenya. May 27-29, 2013.



  1. East and Central African Highlands Action Area Launching Workshop of the Integrated Agricultural Systems for the Humid tropics (Humidtropics) Program of the CGIAR, Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 19-25, 2013.



  1. Second Annual Workshop of Members of the African Growth and Development Policy Modelling Consortium (AGRODEP), Dakar, Senegal, June 6-8, 2011.




  1. Darsh Industries Smallholder Farmer Workshop. Jointly Organized By Darsh Industries Ltd. (Vegetable & Fruit Processing Company) and the Tanzanian Agricultural Productivity Program (TAPP) funded by USAID-Tanzania. New Arusha Hotel, Arusha January 19, 2011.




  1. Inception Workshop of USAID-Mali funded Project ”Increasing Vegetable Production and Consumption in Mali, Salam Hotel, Bamako, December 9-10, 2010.




  1. AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center Regional Center for Africa Annual Strategic Planning Meeting. Chairman and Facilitator for the Session “ Development and Consolidation of 5-year Corporate Business Plan, AVRDC Offices, Arusha, Tanzania, September 30- October 1, 2010.




  1. Eighth Regional Executive Committee Meeting of the Sustainable Tree Crops Program (STCP) hosted by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), IITA Offices, Yaoundé, Cameroon, May 5-7, 2010.




  1. Workshop to Select Cocoa-Carbon Project Sites for the West Africa Katoomba Incubator. Jointly organized by Forest Trends Association and the National Conservation Research Centre (NCRC), Sunlodge Hotel, Accra, Ghana, February 26, 2010.



  1. West Africa Fair Fruits (WAFF) Company Workshop on Creation of a Ghanaian National Guidance Document for the UTZ Certified Cocoa Standard, Coconut Groove Regency Hotel, Accra, Ghana, February 23-24, 2010.



  1. Workshop to Identify Potential Cocoa-Carbon Project Sites for the West Africa Katoomba Incubator. Jointly organized by Forest Trends Association and the National Conservation Research Centre (NCRC), Sunlodge Hotel, Accra, Ghana, November 24, 2009.



  1. German Tropical Day International Conference (Tropentag 2009) on Biophysical and Socio-economic Frame Conditions for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, Hamburg, Germany, October 6-8, 2009.



  1. Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) Workshop on new Cocoa Extension System for Ghanaian Cocoa Farmers under Private Public Partnerships, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ridge, Accra, Ghana, July 15-16, 2009.



  1. Sustainable Tree Crops Program (STCP) Planning Workshop on Cocoa Livelihoods Program (CLP) funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria, June 11-12, 2009.



  1. International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) Stakeholders Meeting to Evaluate ICI project on Eliminating Worst Forms of Child Labour on Cocoa Farms in Ghana. Coconut Groove Regency Hotel, Accra, Ghana, June 5, 2009.



  1. Workshop to Evaluate “Cocoa Abrabopa Program” being implemented by Cocoa Abrabopa Association and Technoserve Ghana. Joint workshop organized by Technoserve, the Research Monitoring and Evaluation Department of COCOBOD and Oxford Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) in Oxford, UK, Novotel Hotel, Accra, Ghana, February 5, 2009.



  1. Sustainable Tree Crops Program (STCP) Monitoring and Evaluation Workshop on the Assessment of Farmer Training Efforts, Abidjan Plateau, Cote D’Ivoire, January 28- February 01, 2009.

  2. “What Makes Agricultural Economics Research Relevant for Policy Advice?”2008 Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (CAES) workshop, Ottawa, Canada, October 23-25, 2008.




  1. Human Capacity Building for Developing Countries and Contribution of the DAAD Program “Agricultural Economics and Related Sciences” organized by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Alumni Meeting and Workshop: of the Universities of Giessen and Hohenheim, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, June 05-15, 2007.




  1. GLOWA Volta Project-Partners Capacity Needs Assessment Workshop, Organized by the GLOWA Volta Project (Bonn, Germany) and the Institute for Natural Resources in Africa of the United Nations University (UNU-INRA) in Accra, Noguchi Memorial Centre for Medical Research, Accra, Ghana, May 31– June 01, 2007.




  1. Workshop to Design Lower Volta River Restoration Project, Organised by the Natural Heritage Institute (USA), The International Water Management Institute (Ghana), Ghana Water Resources Commission, and Ghana Ministry of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Kofi Annan International Centre of Excellence (KICE), Accra, Ghana. Selected as Co-Chairman for the Session “How to Evaluate the Reoperation Scenarios for Economic Feasibility”, May 29-30, 2007.




  1. GLOWA Volta Project Phase III Strategy and Planning Meeting. Oral Presentation: Afari-Sefa V. (2007). Status of Work for the Macro-economic Modeling of Water Demand in the Volta Basin, Andreas Hermes Akademie, Bonn, Germany, January 22-23, 2007.




  1. GLOWA Volta Project Phase III Inception Workshop and Meeting (Ghana). Oral Presentation: Afari-Sefa V. (2007). Overview of Water Demand and Management (Cluster D) in the Volta Basin of West Africa, Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence (KICE), Accra, Ghana, September 25-26, 2006.




  1. GLOWA VOLTA Phase III Inception Workshop and Meeting (Burkina Faso), Dano Research Station, Dano, Burkina Faso, September 21-22, 2006.




  1. Selected observer at the Fifth Annual Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network Meeting, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Conference Center, June 18-22, 2006, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Participated in the specially organized Micro-simulation Workshop: The Use of Household Survey Data and Micro-Simulation Techniques for Policy Analysis”, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 19, 2006. Details available at:

http://www.pep-net.org/NEW-PEP/HTML/Meetings/Addis/Directory/directory_july%2018.pdf


  1. GLOWA-Volta Project Use Case Workshop “Sustainable Water Use under Changing Land Use Patterns, Rainfall Reliability and Water Demands in the Volta Basin of Ghana and Burkina Faso”: Identification and Design of Priority Use Cases for a Decision Support System of Water Use: Project Website: www.glowa-volta.de or www.zef.de : Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, April 24-25, 2006.




  1. The Global Food and Product Chain: Dynamics, Innovations, Conflicts and Strategies “Deutsche Tropentag 2005”: (International Conference on Research for Development in Agriculture, Forestry and Resource Management) University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany, October 11-13, 2005.




  1. Dialogue on Innovative Higher Education Strategies (DIES): Conference on “Cross-border Education and Development Co-operation,” jointly organised by The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Universities Rectors Conference (HRK) and supported by the German Federal Ministry of Development Co-operation, Selected graduate student representative, Bonn, Germany, June 30-July 01, 2005.




  1. Technological and Institutional Innovations for Sustainable Rural Development. Deutsche Tropentag 2003: Georg-August University, Goettingen, Germany, October 8-10, 2003.




  1. Seminars on: Rural Development, Food Security, Credit for Developing Countries, and Rural Planning, at FAO, WFP, IFAD, Rome, Italy, June 2-4, 1998.



  1. INSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATION AT EVENTS




  • Represented AVRDC’s Director General at the 10th Board Meeting of the Global Horticulture Initiative (GHI) at Karula Hotel, Nespruit, South Africa. January 13-14, 2012.

  • Represented AVRDC at East African Seeds Top Customers Meet in Nairobi, Silver Oak Farm, Thika, Nairobi on February 26, 2011 (delivered 5 minute speech on status of East African Seed Company Ltd’s partnership activities with AVRDC).

  • Represented AVRDC at Franco-German-African Research meeting in Dakar, June 8-10, 2011 and proposal development on topic” Future Horticulture in Sub-Sahara Africa for High-Quality and Safe Fruit and Vegetable (Hortafrique)” in Benin till August 31, 2011.

  • Represent AVRDC on 2012 AFSTA Congress National Organizing Committee (August 2011-March 2012). Congress to be held at Zanzibar Beach Resort, Zanzibar, Tanzania from March 5-8, 2012.

  • Member of AVRDC team that had a donor discussion meeting, USAID-COMPETE in Nairobi, January 25, 2011.

  • Member of AVRDC team that had a donor discussion meeting, IDRC in Nairobi, September 17, 2010.




  1. COMPUTER AND LANGUAGE SKILLS




  1. General : Microsoft Office Packages: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power point, MS Access

  2. Econometrics: SPSS, LIMDEP and STATA

  3. Mathematical Programming: Generalized Algebraic Modeling Systems (GAMS), General Equilibrium Modeling Package (GEMPACK), Excel What’s Best (Add-in), Quattro Pro

  4. Geographic Information Systems : ArcViews 9.1 and Spatial Analyst 9.1, Garmin Etrex GPS

  5. Biophysical Modeling: Soil and Water Assessment Tool (ArcSWAT 9.1)

  6. Language: English, German (DSH from Georg-August University Goettingen), Goethe Institute “Mittelstufe 3”, Goettingen).



  1. REFEREES


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Dr. Victor Afari-Sefa 01 February 2018




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