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Framework agreement between the Ivory Coast Ministry of Livestock and AVe

On March 1, 2024, taking advantage of the Ivory Coast Minister of Livestock's visit to the Salon de l'Agriculture in Paris, a framework agreement was signed with AVe specifying our involvement in the PRO PORC program (MIRAH's pork industry development program). The signing took place on the premises of IFIP (Institut Français de l'Interprofession Porcine), which has also signed an agreement with MIRAH. With IFIP, we work together to ensure that our interventions are complementary.

Renovation of a hospital in northern Cameroon

An agreement has been signed between the Christian Aurenche - Tokombéré Foundation and AVe to provide Eric, an AVe expert specializing in building construction, for the renovation of the Tokombéré hospital in northern Cameroon. The foundation is supporting the "health" component of a more global project, the Tokombéré Human Promotion Project (PPHT), in an area where living conditions are extremely difficult. The health component includes preventive and primary care in the villages and a 150-bed hospital. This hospital needs to be completely renovated.

Construction site supervision for a dispensary and maternity clinic in Djilas, Senegal

QUALI'FARM Agreement

The project owner is a Senegalese who studied and worked in France, and who has now retired to launch an agricultural project in his native country. The project, on a 5-hectare plot of land, combines pig breeding with irrigated market gardening. His aim is to contribute to his country's food sovereignty, while at the same time creating a job-creating activity. AVe's pork and vegetable production experts will provide support to ensure the success of his project.

An improved 2^nd edition of the guide

The 1^st edition of the guide, launched at SPACE 2023, was distributed in several African countries: Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Gabon... The 2^nd edition takes into account feedback from the 1st edition. As a result, it has been expanded (48 tip sheets), while remaining pedagogical: minimum text, lots of diagrams, tables and photos of African pig farms. By presenting good farming practices adapted to Africa, this guide presents itself as a guide to sustainable African pig farming.

After a year's collaboration, during which we got to know each other and carried out a number of actions together, we agreed to sign a new three-year framework agreement. Concrete actions carried out over the past year include: the publication of the guide for pig breeders in Africa, its launch at a joint conference at SPACE 2023 in Rennes, the start of distribution of the guide in several African countries (Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, etc.).

Theme of the visioconference : biosecurity on a pig farm in Africa

Bernard AVe expert led a videoconference for fifteen pig breeders from Burkina Faso. These farmers have ordered High Genetic Value gilts from AXIOM, the French leader in pig genetics. This is a high-risk operation in a country where ASF (African Swine Fever) is present everywhere. Hence the importance of taking the right measures at farm level. Bernard presented these measures in a slide show on the theme of biosecurity on a pig farm in Africa. Video appears to be an excellent way of transferring knowledge to developing countries.

Proposing a marketing plan for a toy manufacturing SME in Algeria

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Getting to know the cocoa cooperative in Ivory Coast before prospecting for it in Europe

Following the agreement signed in March 2023 between CADESA and AVe, AVe expert Pierre spent a week in Ivory Coast to get to know the cooperative well, before prospecting for partners. The program was packed with visits to plantations, the cooperative's head office and warehouses in the Sassandra department, and participation in the SARA (Salon de l'Agriculture) in Abidjan.

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