{"id":11020,"date":"2015-10-27T08:36:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T08:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=11020"},"modified":"2015-10-27T08:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T08:36:48","slug":"meeting-gets-oxfam-press-trust-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/10\/27\/meeting-gets-oxfam-press-trust-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting gets Oxfam, Press Trust boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oxfam Malawi and Press Trust have each contributed K1million towards this year \u2019s Economics Association of Malawi (Ecama) lakeshore conference scheduled for Mangochi from November 13-14 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the cheque, Oxfam country director, John Makina, said they decided to partner Ecama because this year\u2019s conference theme \u201cAgriculture transformation and Value addition\u201d is central to Oxfam\u2019s campaign on \u201caccess to markets\u201d which it initiated in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOxfam\u2019s participation hopes to generate more knowledge from different stakeholders at the conference on how to further work on access to markets for the smallholder famers,\u201d Makina said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a different ceremony to present another donation to Ecama, Press Trust chief executive officer, Patrick Mhango, said Ecama has always been pleased with the depth of the discussion at the conference which brings together participants from public and private sectors of the country as well as from civil society.<\/p>\n<p>Ecama president, Henry Kachaje, hailed Oxfam and Press Trust for the donations, saying they were timely and would help in the success of the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxfam Malawi and Press Trust have each contributed K1million towards this year \u2019s Economics Association of Malawi (Ecama) lakeshore conference scheduled for Mangochi from November 13-14 this year. Presenting the cheque, Oxfam country director, John Makina, said they decided to partner Ecama because this year\u2019s conference theme \u201cAgriculture transformation and Value addition\u201d is central to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11022,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020\/revisions\/11022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}