Cence: addressing the need for food security

Calling the over one billion hungry people in the world “our tragic achievement in these modern days”, FAO Director-General, Jacques Diouf, stressed the need to produce food where the poor and hun- gry live and to boost agricultural investment in these regions – World Summit on Food Security, Rome, 16 – 18 November 2009. ( […]

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Landbou is Cool – Cence in aksie by Agri Mega Week

Altesaam 80 leerders van nege Bolandse skole het aan dié konferensie met die tema “Landbou is cool” deelgeneem.

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MTN Foundation Kgwebo ya Batsha

The MTN Kgwebo ya Batsha / Young Entrepreneurs Project was launched in June 2009 and implemented for 4 years with the exit phase scheduled for the end of 2012. MTN Foundation together with CENCE identified and registered 15 schools per

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Mitchell’s Plain Schools Vegetable Gardens

The Agri-Entrepreneur project in Mitchell’s Plain, aims to address nutritional needs of school students in the area. Our motivation is the ideal that if children are not hungry, they are better able to learn and stay in school and ultimately will be able to access development opportunities which will contribute their economic well-being – and […]

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AgriSETA Learnership

The aim of the project is to, through the support and assistance of the AgriSETA, provide the learners with an accredited qualification – National Certificate in Plant Production NQF 1. With this project Cence acts as Skills Development Facilitator to facilitate learning according to Unit Standards and assess learning progress according to Specific Outcomes of the specific programme.

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Earthworm Project – Elsenburg Agricultural Project

After worms had to give way to a new road at the Fresh Mark distribution centre in Brackenfell, a subsidiary of the Shoprite Checkers group, the management generously decided to hand over their earthworm project to the Department of Agriculture at Elsenburg and Cence for training purposes. Mr Johan Marx, Executive Director of Cence, a […]

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