Welcome to the GlobalHort Information Portal

GlobalHort has one vision, one objective, four core activities:

• Promoting horticultural research for development
• A program of grants for horticultural research
• A knowledge hub for dispersed cooperating horticultural communities
• Facilitating horticultural training, education and capacity building

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Flyer on Recent Achievements / Brochure sur les réalisations récentes

Latest Announcements / Dernières annonces

The World Bank has joined together with GlobalHort, the European Union, and the ACP, to organize a series of interactive seminars that will focus on challenges facing high-value agriculture in Southern and Eastern Africa. The seminar content will address issues faced by fresh produce value chain stakeholders oriented toward local, regional and international export markets, and aims to identify potential solutions and specific steps to success. The brochure "High-Value Agriculture in Southern and Eastern Africa: A Series of Interactive Seminars on Challenges and Solutions, 2010-2011" provides details on this series. For date and contact information click here.

The fourth in the series will take place September 23, 2010 involving 5 countries: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda and Zambia. COMESA and EAC will also participate.  Topic:  Regional Trade: Marketing and Consumption Trends. This seminar will attempt to identify constraints and to revel the potential for regional markets in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Presentations and articles on completed seminar can be accessed here.

Urban and Peri-urban Horticulture in the Century of Cities

Published on 18^th Jul 2010

An international symposium, "Urban and Peri-urban Horticulture in the Century of Cities: Lessons, challenges, opportunities" will take place in Dakar, Senegal December 5-9, 2010.  The symposium is organized by FAO and Senegal’s Ministry of Agriculture with the partnership of GlobalHort, CIRAD and ISHS. The symposium will cover key links in the production, supply and value chains, including secure access to natural resources, integrated plant production and protection, post-harvest handling/processing technologies, product quality and safety, and marketing. The symposium is expected to provide guidance for the preparation of FAO’s report on the State of Urban and Peri-Urban Horticulture in Africa (SOUPHA), to be published in 2011.

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All Africa Horticulture Congress 2012

The first All Africa Horticulture Congress held in Nairobi in 2009 was a great success.  Planning has now started for the second Congress that will be held in January, 2012 in Nelspruit, South Africa.  Please watch for more information on our website.