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Tropical Race 4 Awareness Raising and Capacity Development: Key Messages and Training Competency Framework

TR4 Global Network - An initiative of the World Banana Forum

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 20 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Booklet

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Developed by the TR4 Task Force of the World Banana Forum (WBF), the guide TR4 awareness raising and capacity development: key messages and training competency framework aims to provide a framework that can be used worldwide to develop awareness raising, information materials and training courses on the management of Fusarium Tropical race 4 (TR4). This framework will ensure that awareness raising and training worldwide deliver the same clear and consistent messages to those involved in banana production and trade on how to contain, manage, and prevent the further spread of TR4. The competencies provide the basis on which to design training courses; they specify what individuals need to know and be able to do by the time they complete the training. The competencies needed to tackle TR4 vary according to target group. The knowledge and skills needed by a transporter, for example, are different to those needed by a plantation manager.

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