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ProFound @BioFach: bringing African, Pakistani and Kosovar suppliers
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ProFound @BioFach: bringing African, Pakistani and Kosovar suppliers

profound2020-03-04T08:27:49+00:00February 9th, 2018|Tags: Biofach, CBI, Kosovo, NI-CheckApp, Organic Africa Pavilion, Pakistan, South Africa|

From 14-17 February, ProFound will manage the Organic Africa Pavilion at Biofach. We will also support two Pakistani suppliers at the CBI stand, introduce South African and Kosovar companies to interesting partners in Europe and join in the FairWild event on Thursday 15 February.Going to BioFach? Read on to see where to find us.Organic Africa Pavilion - stand 4-35911 suppliers from 5 African countries will exhibit their sweet and spicy products at the Organic Africa Pavilion hosted by ProFound at stand 4-359. Buyers and other visitors are welcome to smell and taste fresh papaya, wild pepper, tiger nuts, cocoa beans, baobab and [Read more]

Improving Kosovo’s food marketing at trade fairs
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Improving Kosovo’s food marketing at trade fairs

profound2017-03-14T13:49:40+00:00February 20th, 2017|Tags: Kosovo, PPSE, SIAL, Swisscontact|

In 2016, ProFound engaged with local marketing companies in Kosovo to strengthen their capacities to support food processors. After implementing a series of activities in the food-processing sector in Kosovo, we were ready to equip local providers with the skills needed to sustain future interventions. Like in earlier activities in the country, ProFound trained the Kosovar marketing companies in the framework of Swisscontact’s Promoting Private Sector Employment programme. The activities implemented in this project served to make Kosovar marketing companies more proficient in supporting local food-processing companies in their export marketing ambitions. For ProFound, this trajectory helped us build our capacities in knowledge exchange [Read more]

Introducing Kosovo to the market
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Introducing Kosovo to the market

Aafke van Sprundel2016-11-01T16:28:03+00:00December 15th, 2015|Tags: Anuga, Food Ingredients Europe, Kosovo, market orientation, Natural Ingredients, wild-collection|

As a follow-up to the inception phase, ProFound has been actively involved in the implementation of Swisscontact-PPSE's interventions for Kosovo's food processing sector in 2015. At Anuga (Cologne, Germany), ProFound provided support to 12 Kosovar companies dealing with a wide range of products, from smoothies and energy drinks to preserved vegetables and mushrooms. ProFound's role at Anuga went beyond creating business linkages, also including capacity-building aspects to the exhibiting companies. Food Ingredients Europe (Paris, France) was directly aimed at the non-wood forest product sub-sector, and served as a solid basis to define the strengths and needs of Kosovo's companies. At [Read more]

Non-Wood Forest Products in Kosovo

Aafke van Sprundel2016-10-11T12:38:31+00:00May 13th, 2015|Tags: Kosovo, Non-Wood Forest Products, Promoting Private Sector Employment, Riinvest Institute, Swiss Development Cooperation|

ProFound has just concluded the first phase of the Market Assessment for the Non-Wood Forest Product (NWFP) sub-sector in Kosovo, consisting mainly of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs), berries and mushrooms. This assessment has been commissioned by the Promoting Private Sector Employment (PPSE) programme, financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). In the course of two weeks, Gustavo Ferro cooperated closely with the PPSE team and Riinvest Institute in gathering primary data from processors of NWFPs, collection centres, collectors, international organisations and service providers in all corners of Kosovo. The market assessment team was also accompanied by gender analysts [Read more]

FairWild training in Kosovo

Aafke van Sprundel2016-10-11T12:45:50+00:00December 5th, 2014|Tags: FairWild, GIZ, Klaus Dürbeck Consulting, Kosovo, wild-collection|

On behalf of FairWild, Bert-Jan Ottens examined the protocols and assessed the participants of the training in FairWild Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), conducted by Klaus Dürbeck and Stefan Lermer (Klaus Dürbeck Consulting) in November 2014. The training took place in the context of a GIZ-supported programme for sustainable wild-collection in Kosovo. Subjects covered the procedures for resource assessment and resource management by resource owners and users, including field training in transects for resource measurement.

Market assessment in Kosovo

Aafke van Sprundel2016-11-01T16:28:08+00:00August 21st, 2014|Tags: Kosovo, processed fruits and vegetables, Promoting Private Sector Employment, Riinvest Institute, Swiss Development Cooperation, Swisscontact|

In the beginning of August, ProFound consultants Gustavo Ferro and Bert-Jan Ottens embarked on a mission to Pristina, Kosovo, to initiate an assessment of the Kosovar market for processed fruits and vegetables. This assessment falls within the framework of Promoting Private Sector Employment (PPSE), a programme financed by the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC). The programme is implemented by a consortium of Swisscontact, Riinvest Insitute and PEM Consult. Together with the Riinvest Institute as a local partner, ProFound is conducting the market assessment at three different levels: Trade statistics: an assessment of Kosovo’s trade balance. Value chain dynamics: an analysis of [Read more]