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- Training Manuel on Introduction to Business ModelsDate: 2026-07-20Type: ManualStatus: Timeless limited accessThis training manual is designed to introduce business models to young male and female potential entrepreneurs in rural Morocco and Tunisia. Key components of micro and medium scale business models are included in the manual. The manual introduces what a business Model is, the four building blocks of a business model, presents a case study, and summarizes practical challenges and sensitivity analysis in business models. In addition to rural youth, the manual can be used to train different groups of farmers or rural actors in Morocco, Tunisia, and similar contexts. We designed the training manual and associated materials around the working outline: “Your Idea, Your Plan, Your Profit.” We believe that young entrepreneurs need to appreciate the power of ideas, the purpose of planning, and the satisfaction that profit guarantees. The training draws on the Business Model Canvas framework, simplified and adapted for smallholder crops and livestock farming settings. All examples use sheep fattening as the primary case study because it is widely practiced, requires modest capital, and demonstrates all four building blocks of a business model clearly. Facilitators are encouraged to substitute goats, cereals, vegetables, dairy, or any other locally relevant enterprise in case sheep fattening is an unlikely enterprise.
- Fundamentals of Agriculture-based StartupsDate: 2026-07-01Type: ManualStatus: Timeless limited accessThis manual has been designed for a two-hour awareness training on agriculture-based startups, aimed at young rural men and women in Morocco and Tunisia. It is intentionally compact. Two hours is not enough time to teach someone how to run a business; it is enough to introduce three things clearly: what an agricultural startup is, how such a business is established, and how it is managed. The hope is that some participants will leave the session motivated to take a serious next step — enrolling in a longer training program, joining an existing cooperative, applying to one of the youth-entrepreneurship competitions described in Section 5, or simply starting to keep records of an income-generating activity they already have.
- Introduction to Financial Management for Small BusinessesDate: 2026-07-01Type: ManualStatus: Timeless limited accessThis manual is designed as a two-hour awareness training on financial management for small businesses, aimed at young rural men and women in Morocco and Tunisia. Like the earlier manuals in this series, it is intentionally compact. Two hours is not enough time to turn someone into an accountant; it is enough to take a young person who already records their money and teach them to do four new things: read those records to find their profit, set a price they can defend, get paid reliably, and plan cash across the seasons so the business is ready to grow. This is the key idea behind the manual. In the startup training, participants learned the single most important habit - keeping a cash book. Recording money is the floor, not the ceiling. A young entrepreneur can write down every coin and still not know whether the business is profitable, still be owed money they never collect, and still run out of cash in a slow month. This session is about turning the record into decisions. This matters especially in rural areas. Research by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) found that most young people in the developing world remain outside the formal financial system, and that rural incomes rise and fall with the seasons (IFAD, 2015). A young entrepreneur who manages money well is far better placed to weather a bad season, get paid on time, repay a loan, and one day qualify for finance to grow.
- Recipe Day 1 (RD1) - Union Nationale des Femmes du Maroc MeknesAuthor(s): Najjar, Dina; Caidi, KaoutarDate: 2026-01-24Type: VideoStatus: Open accessOn January 24th 2026, ICARDA, in partnership with the Union Nationale des Femmes du Maroc (UNFM), organized the first Recipe Day under the NUSTALGIC project. The video follows participants through nutrition awareness sessions, interactive discussions on gender equality and shared household responsibilities, and live cooking demonstrations promoting the use of Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS). Guided by UNFM facilitators, participants learned how to prepare artichoke and fava bean tajine, lentil salad, and fava bean bissara.
- RECIPE DAY - Ecole d'Agriculture de TemaraAuthor(s): Najjar, Dina; Caidi, KaoutarDate: 2026-06-24Type: VideoStatus: Open accessRecipe Day 2 (RD2) – Summary On June 24th 2026, ICARDA organized the second Recipe Day under the NUSTALGIC project in collaboration with the Directorate of Education, Training, and Research (DEFR) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests, the School of Agriculture in Temara, and the Specialized Institute of Applied Technology in Hospitality and Tourism in Touarga. The video showcases participants' journey from nutrition awareness sessions and gender equality discussions to interactive cooking demonstrations led by professional chefs, who prepared chickpea salad with vinaigrette seasonning, creamy fava bean soup with shrimp, and lentil salad.