ComMark Catalyst Newsletter

In this issue of ComMark Catalyst:

Second Crop of SA Organic Cotton
New Agribusiness Staff and Office
Lesotho Food Gardens Combat High Prices
Communal Wool Project Expands to KZN
Policy Intervention and Advocacy: Textiles and Clothing
Innovations: Eastern Cape Red Meat Programme

Sharpening the competitive edge
Can Africa's clothing industry survive Asian competition
Eastern Cape Red Meat Project achieves important milestones
ComMark's Regional Standards Programme

Hidden treasures
Creating jobs in the region
Obstacles to growth
Bringing emerging farmers into mainstream markets

AsgiSA takes root
Making land reform work for the poor
Oiling the economy
Selling to supermarkets: locking farmers into the global value chain

Packaging Vilakazi Street Precinct
Putting ‘Jobai' on the map
Entangled in red tape

Tourism Satellite Accounting Exercise
Capitalising equity for community participation
Namibian tourism Product Audit
Community-based tourism

Ethical trading
Training unleashes talent
Cultural assimilation programme
Tackling HIV and Aids
Industrial diversification

Making markets work for small farmers
Cottoning on to Black Economic Empowerment
BEE made easy
Going organic
Harvesting in the wild - a natural development

ComMark Turns One
ComMark Sends Team to Springfield
ComMark Strategic Review
Updates from Lesotho

Lesotho Conference aims to develop burgeoning textile industry
The Entrepreneurial Spirit of the Mountain Kingdom
Growing Wool using Market Development
This is where ComMark is heading...
CloTrade – Supporting Growth in the South African Apparel Sector