Projects

Some examples of projects in which CanEd International representatives have provided expertise in the above areas include:

• Introduction of minimum tillage agriculture to the Ukraine: This ongoing project supplies equipment and training in minimum tillage agriculture to commercial farms in Ukraine.
  
  The objective of this project is to modernize Ukrainian agriculture through the introduction of minimum tillage cropping. This will enhance the competitiveness of Ukraine’s agriculture by improving the environmental quality via reduced erosion, moisture loss, and fuel consumption as well as increasing the yields of Ukrainian cereal producing areas.
  
• CanEd International Inc. is working in Ukraine to support Rural Credit Systems and Commodity Exchange development. Project expertise is focused on increasing liquidity within the agriculture sector by: 1) assisting in the development and implementation of credit programs using stored commodities as collateral, and 2) assisting commodity exchange activities in targeted regions through the development of appropriate trading rules and procedures that will stimulate and reinforce private initiative throughout the process of agrarian reform. This project is funded by the Canadian International Development Agency and is supported in the Ukraine by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine.
  
  
• Providing consulting services to the Belize Agricultural Health Authority (BAHA), the executing agency for the Modernization of Agricultural Health Services Project funded by the Inter-American Development Bank. The objective of this project is to enhance the competitiveness of Belize's agriculture products by improving the quality and financial viability of animal and plant health services to comply with World Trade requirements. CanEd provided consulting services in administration, animal health, plant health, zoo sanitary diagnostic laboratories, food safety, inspection and quarantine.
  
  

• Provided the Canadian Team Leader and Agricultural Economist to a large soil and water project in Egypt. The project focused on the need to conserve water and at the same time increase crop productivity. In addition, new waste-water management practices designed to improve health and hygiene within the farming community were investigated and modified.
• In conjunction with the International Regional Organization for Plant and Animal Health (OIRSA) based in San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A., developed a producer/exporter-directed and supported agro-sanitary system (standards and regulations) that met intra-regional and international export market requirements.
• Manager of a project in the former Soviet Union that involved the privatization of agricultural extension services formerly provided by the government including training in on-farm consulting techniques, needs assessment, and business strategies and practices.
  
  
• Developed a Preventive Medicine Training Program for veterinarians in Central America.
• Developed a marketing and business plan for a pork processing plant in Central America.
• Led a food-aid needs assessment project for Namibia.
• Participated in a rain-fed wheat project in Zambia.

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