Supporting local agribusiness has been at the center of the work Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture, or CNFA, an international development organization, has been doing in Georgia in an effort to improve farmer livelihoods, and now the Georgian government has taken notice.
CNFA has worked to support agribusiness through a variety of programs that helped reduce risk, improve mechanization and boost farmer skills. To date, the organization estimates it has assisted more than 430 Georgian agribusinesses.
The model has caught the attention of the Georgian government. Levan Davitashvili, Georgia’s minister of agriculture said that the ministry would “apply CNFA’s focus on agricultural entrepreneurship and its competitive matching grant model to future state programs led by the Ministry of Agriculture,” according to a statement released by the organization.
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Jennifer Piettedisgeneration
Jennifer Ehidiamen is a Nigerian writer who is passionate about communications and journalism. She has worked as a reporter and communications consultant for different organizations in Nigeria and overseas. She has an undergraduate degree in mass communication from the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, and M.A. in business and economics from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York. In 2014, she founded Rural Reporters (www.ruralreporters.com) with the goal of amplifying underreported news and issues affecting rural communities.
