Welcome to AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc. in Woodstock, ON, CANADA!

Who Are We

AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc. is a CANADIAN consulting and capacity building company that specializes in Sustainable and Transformational rural development, Conservation agriculture, Irrigation and water harvesting and the Development and management of agricultural research infrastructure. Some of our areas of expertise are: Livelihoods security, Food security, Agricultural production, post harvest technology, Environmental conservation and rehabilitation, Appropriate technology, Zero tillage, Natural resource management, Agricultural Research station development and management, Community development, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Hydrology and irrigation, Soil Erosion, Topography and Cartography.

Our Vision

Clean and sustainable environment through responsible planning and management of sound agricultural projects.

Our Location

Woodstock, Ontario 

Our Accomplishments

Over the last twenty years AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc. worked on various projects in around 50 countries in North, West, and East Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Some of the activities that highlighted this period were:

• Short term consulting assignments in program and project management related issues.
• Feasibility studies for funding of projects.
• Custom-designed and facilitated capacity building workshops in agriculture or one of its sectors.
• Custom designed training courses for managers from developing countries in ESOM (Experiment Stations Operations and Management.
• Developing site plans for the development or rehabilitation of experiment stations.
• Application of GIS technology to rural development work in various locations.
• Application of GIS technology on 28 research stations developed in Africa and Argentina.
• Design of equipment for agricultural related environmental problems.
• Design of relief projects and food security programs in various African, Asian and Latin American countries. 
• Assessment, analysis and design of livelihoods Security related programs.
• Strategic planning in agriculture and Food security.
• Pastoralist livelihoods security and animal husbandry initiatives
• Conservation agriculture projects focusing on zero tillage and smallholder farmers.
• Community-based, Farmer-managed natural resouce management--NRM.
• Baseline surveys, Rapid Rural Appraisals-RRA, Paticipatory Learning in Action-PLA, Focus group discussions, etc.
• Impact assessment of projects
• Design of the "PIONEROS XXI" agricultural project in Argentina.
• Design and rehabilitation of 28 research stations in Argentina, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, and Guinea-Conakry 
• Collaborated with various universities from the USA on various research and capacity building projects
• Collaborated with various national (NARS) and international centers for agricultural research (CGIAR) on matters related appropriate agricultural development

Over the last twenty years AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc. staff have  participated in local Canadian, as well as International assignments in the following countries listed in alphabetical order: Argentina, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Ecuador, Egypt, El-Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea - Conakry, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mali, Malawi, Mauritania, Mexico, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Syria, Tunisia, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates, USA, Zimbabwe, Zambia.

What are we doing

At the present time AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc. is involved in various Capacity building workshops and events, Feasibility studies for rural development in various countries in East, West and Southern Africa. These contacts focus especially in the area of conservation agriculture, water harvesting, agricultural production, postharvest production and food security and economic development and marketing.

AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc.  carried out various assignments to carry out strategic planning of agriculture and food security as well as to develop programs for capacity building of staff in these areas. Staff developed training events that dealt with assessment and analysis of situations leading to developing programs in livelihoods security. Staff have written proposal for development work and sought funding.

In three locations in Kenya and Malawi the AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc. team trained staff to carry out livelihoods security assessment and analysis leading to the development of plans of Area Development Programs in these countries. 

Most recently, AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc. was contracted by CIMMYT--the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico, to do the feasibility and analysis of two sites for Maize research in Kenya and Zimbabwe in Africa. As part of the work, the AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc.   team developed designs and plans for the establishment of Kiboko research station in Kenya and the irrigation system needs for the Chiredzi station in Zimbabwe. 

AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc. has various contracts with National Agricultural systems or International agencies to provide advice regarding improving agricultural research.

How do we do it?

• Provide a holistic systems development approach to arrive at solutions and alternatives that utilize local available resources, and meet specific project requirements.
• Develop strategies and tools that enable communities and authorities in developing countries target livelihoods Security of their households and resilience of their communities in order to raise healthy, well educated and empowered children and families
• Develop special programs components and solutions in collaboration with other stakeholders on the ground leading to developing well trained human resources of the national institutes and communities with which we deal.
• Place special emphasis on conservation of natural resources like soil and water, and prevention of environmental crises.
• Emphasize personal safety and elimination of hazards in developing site plans.
• Ensure that the staff involved is adequately trained 

• AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc. employs and utilizes highly skilled and qualified staff and the latest available tools for efficient and effective assessment, analysis, planning and design of its rural and peri-urban projects.
• AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc. utilize computerized technology (particularly GIS and CAD) in projects related to soil and water conservation and harvesting, cartography, and site planning, in order to evaluate and analyze the situation accurately, and provide the ideal and optimum solution. It works with state-of-the-art equipment for efficiency, quality and speedy delivery of projects.
• AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc.  advocates appropriate technology and dependence on local resources including human resources.
• AGRICON INTERNATIONAL Inc. believes that the most rewarding of outcomes are empowered communities and capable men and women who are livelihoods and food secure.

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