TAA Award Fund

TAAF aims to maintain person to person contact with its awardees, acting as a professional support agency rather than simply a funding body.

Awardees in the field are encouraged to send regular progress reports to their mentors. These serve to keep the committee informed of the awardees' progress, alert the mentor to any problems that the awardee may have encountered, and enable the mentor - either directly or by calling on other specialist members of TAA - to provide relevant technical and other forms of advice to their mentees.

Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, Namibia

Elizabeth Adams writes from the Gobabeb Research and Training Centre, Namibia, where she has been working as a TAAF awardee since January 2008

Talamanca Small Producers' Association, Costa Rica

Jonathan Stern writes from Costa Rica where he has just started a 6 month assignment as Professional Support Volunteer at ANAI, an agri-environment NGO which promotes fair trade in agricultural products and other sustainable development activities