Africa: The Last Investment Frontier
15 July 2008
by John H. Christy
When the G-8 leaders gather in Hokkaido, Japan, a number of weighty issues, including poverty, climate change and AIDS, will be at the top of the agenda. It’s a fairly safe assumption that U.S. President George Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda won’t be exchanging African stock tips at cocktail hour, but it would be a big mistake to put the subject of Africa’s financial markets on the back burner.
Capital markets are the lifeblood of economic development. (...)
When the G-8 leaders gather in Hokkaido, Japan, a number of weighty issues, including poverty, climate change and AIDS, will be at the top of the agenda. It’s a fairly safe assumption that U.S. President George Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda won’t be exchanging African stock tips at cocktail hour, but it would be a big mistake to put the subject of Africa’s financial markets on the back burner.
Capital markets are the lifeblood of economic development. (...)
Training Course on ‘Management Tools and Strategic Business Models’
11 June 2008
The International Centre for Science and High Technology of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (ICS-UNIDO), in collaboration with ATDF Entrepreneurship Hub, University of Zambia, Ministry of Science, Technology and Vocational Training in Zambia will hold a three day training workshop on Management Tools and Strategic Business Models in Lusaka.
Date: 14-16 July in Lusaka, Zambia
Venue: Cresta Golf View Hotel, off Great East Road.
The main objectives of the Workshop are: (...)
Date: 14-16 July in Lusaka, Zambia
Venue: Cresta Golf View Hotel, off Great East Road.
The main objectives of the Workshop are: (...)
Entrepreneurship Investment Support 2008 (up to US$ 50’000!)
27 March 2008
ATDF Entrepreneurship Hub is please to announce the call for business plans for the second annual Zambian Entrepreneurship Investment Support. This initiative is designed to promote young Zambian men and women below the age of 45 who have innovative business ideas and the necessary discipline and skills to convert their ideas into a successful companies that creates new products, services and employment for the Zambian people.
Closing date: 30 April 2008
Obligations for the winners of the (...)
Closing date: 30 April 2008
Obligations for the winners of the (...)
ATDF Launches its Entrepreneurship Initiatives
27 August 2007
ATDF hosted two meetings in Lusaka Zambia to interview business start-ups candidates who sent in their innovative business proposals to the ATDF Entrepreneurship Hub to be considered for technical assistance and start-up capital and a highlevel meeting with policymakers and entrepreneurs to discuss private sector promotion and development.
ATDF Launches its Entrepreneurship Initiatives 14 August 2007, Lusaka, Zambia
ATDF hosted two meetings in Lusaka Zambia to interview business start-ups (...)
ATDF Launches its Entrepreneurship Initiatives 14 August 2007, Lusaka, Zambia
ATDF hosted two meetings in Lusaka Zambia to interview business start-ups (...)
ATDF Technology Fair 2007: 14 August 2007, Lusaka, Zambia
12 July 2007
Invitation to ATDF Lusaka Technology Fair 2007 on Promoting innovation through entrepreneurship
Venue: Lusaka Intercontinental Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia.
The Fair offers innovative firms, institutions and independent inventors an opportunity to display their concepts, designs, products and services as well as a chance to develop business partnerships and technology alliances, and seek investment. Come and meet other business leaders and policy makers to analyse and realise current and future (...)
Venue: Lusaka Intercontinental Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia.
The Fair offers innovative firms, institutions and independent inventors an opportunity to display their concepts, designs, products and services as well as a chance to develop business partnerships and technology alliances, and seek investment. Come and meet other business leaders and policy makers to analyse and realise current and future (...)
ATDF Technology Fair 2007 - Registration
12 July 2007
ATDF Lusaka Technology Fair 2007: Promoting innovation through entrepreneurship
Venue: Lusaka Intercontinental Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia.
Date: 14 August, 2007.
The ATDF Lusaka Technology Fair 2007 offers innovative firms, institutes and independent inventors an opportunity to display their concepts, designs, products and services. The Fair is designed to serve as a platform to foster business partnerships, technology alliances and commercialization and investment.
Terms for participation: (...)
Venue: Lusaka Intercontinental Hotel, Lusaka, Zambia.
Date: 14 August, 2007.
The ATDF Lusaka Technology Fair 2007 offers innovative firms, institutes and independent inventors an opportunity to display their concepts, designs, products and services. The Fair is designed to serve as a platform to foster business partnerships, technology alliances and commercialization and investment.
Terms for participation: (...)
ATDF Entrepreneurship Hub
12 July 2007
ATDF Entrepreneurship Hub is an independent corporate unit of Africa Technology Development Forum (ATDF) based in Lusaka, Zambia. The primary goal of the Hub is to promote entrepreneurship and innovation as a way of creating wealth and jobs and reducing poverty.
ATDF Entrepreneurship Hub offers five main products:
1. Entrepreneurship Support Investment (up to US$ 50,000!) The Entrepreneurship Support Investment is equity financing designed to promote Zambian men and women, especially (...)
ATDF Entrepreneurship Hub offers five main products:
1. Entrepreneurship Support Investment (up to US$ 50,000!) The Entrepreneurship Support Investment is equity financing designed to promote Zambian men and women, especially (...)
Private standards are increasingly becoming export barriers to small-scale farmers in Africa
11 April 2007
EU regulatory requirements on fresh food imports are already tough (including pesticide regulations, market grade standards, traceability and general hygiene of foodstuffs). Yet, standards imposed by the private sector, notably the EurepGAP protocol for fresh fruit and vegetable production goes even beyond these requirements. An article in Pesticide News argues that the impact of private standards such as EurepGAP is leading to vertically integrated food supply chains that are dominated (...)
