Are you interested in the latest horticultural insights and want to develop your horticulture sector further? If yes, then this 2021 Horticulture Sector Development for Emerging Markets course is for you.

This course gives access to world leading Dutch knowledge organisations and private companies from the horticulture sector. It provides an interactive approach to strengthen your capacities and to translate the gained knowledge and skills into value for your organization and the sector as a whole.

The course covers the complete horticulture value chain, including fruit, vegetable and ornamental subsectors, and both greenhouse as well as open field production. Relevant examples from the Dutch sector will be demonstrated.

Participants of the course will update and strengthen their knowledge, insight and skills on:

• Horticulture production, both protected and open field production;
• Post-harvest, quality and logistics processes;
• Technical, organisational, institutional and socio-economic aspects of horticulture value chains systems;
• Domestic and international market systems;
• International standards for good agricultural practices and quality issues in international trade;
• Relevant international institutional and policy developments, as well as the relevance to your own country;
• General principles of value chain analysis, management and integrated strategies for horticultural development;
• The role of multi-stakeholder processes in developing vibrant markets.

Course Date

• Date: Mon 17 May 2021 until Fri 25 June 2021
• Duration: Part-time, 20hrs per week (6 weeks)

Venue: Facilitated online sessions

Criteria

WDI invites technical staff, policymakers, scientists, private sector professionals and programme / project managers who want to further develop the horticultural sector in their home countries or country of work, to enrol. Participants should be proficient in English, and have at least a BSc degree or an equivalent academic qualification and five years of work experience in a related field.

For more information, visit CDI.