drought resistant seeds, contingency planning), to market risks (contract farming for milk production). A special focus was put the risks related to the sub-sectors of fisheries and livestock, with the presentation of initiatives addressing risks specific to these two sub-sectors.
Finally, the third day was dedicated to financial tools for Agricultural Risk Management. The Financing Facility for Remittances provided participants with an introduction on the power of remittances for agricultural risk management, and on the challenges and promises of channeling remittances flows for investments in agriculture. This was followed by a round-table which brought together the main actors in agricultural insurance in Senegal for a discussion on the requirements for insurance implementation and its accessibility for smallholder farmers.
Main outcomes
Participants were able to prioritize risks in the agricultural sector in Senegal, based on the two PARM studies and on the World Bank study.
-sector, the main risks identified were droughts/erratic rainfall and locust infestations.
From these, some cross cutting areas were identified, namely the uncontrolled high variability of the productivity and production of each sub-sector, and the need for a more efficient information system that facilitates timely access to qualitative and quantitative data and information.
Next steps
Following these fruitful discussions, the experts in charge of the Risk Assessment Studies will review their analysis to incorporate comments made by national experts and stakeholders. A final version of their reports will then be shared with the Government for official validation.
A short video on the workshop and the PARM process will be published shortly.Having a personal development routine can and will change your life.
I am telling you, dreamer.
If you care for your mind and your body, your future-self is in for a real treat.
Once I started to take time out of my day to deliberately increase my personal growth, my whole world changed.
Let me just put it this way, if you don’t already have a personal development routine in your life, the right time to get started is NOW.
Designing your own personal development routine touches upon the methods and tools that I teach in my signature course, The Dreamer To Doer Academy. Creating a plan for your personal growth is just the tip of the iceberg. In this course, we go deep. Learn more about the course here.
The first step is to actually make the time for your personal growth time.
If you’re brand new to personal development, it doesn’t have to take very long.
Spend 10 minutes on personal growth if that is all you have.
I know you’re busy – but try to either incorporate it in your morning or evening routine.
I personally enjoy having my personal development routine in the morning and as soon as I get up.
I have the house to myself and I stay clear of all distractions.
Doing it first thing also feels like I make it a priority and I can go into my day with my positive mindset on.
There is no better way to start the day than to care for yourself.
I highly recommend implementing your personal development routine during those crispy early hours.
Then, I suggest doing your personal development routine at night time.
There is no right or wrong time.
I just don’t recommend doing it in the middle of the day when you will likely be busy anyway.
Pick a time and place that works for your schedule and you’re good to go.
It can be helpful to define your dream result and have a clear goal going into your personal development work.
When you have something specific in mind, for instance, a dream you want to chase, you can get your thoughts and emotions on right so you can act from a place of abundance and not from scarcity.
How do I want to live my life in the next 2-3 years?
What do my days look like?
Get really clear on your desired end result and be sure to bring your personal growth routine with you.
Allow yourself to dream big for up to one hour a day.
Visualize your dream future and hang out with your future self for a bit.
There is power in visualization.
The more you get into the habit of visualizing your dream future, the more likely it is to manifest.
This ain’t woo.
I love to use the Headspace app (guided meditation and visualization) for all my meditational purposes.
Here are my absolute favorite books for personal development.
Listen to a podcast if listening is more your thing.
Check-in with your goals and dreams.
Are you living in line with your dreams?
Are you taking steps in the right direction?
If not, what can you do today to better align your self with your goals?
Spend time with your thoughts and emotions.
What thoughts are you currently having and do they support the dream life you want to create?
If not, make the effort to change your thoughts so you can feel differently, take action accordingly and get the results you want.
Your thoughts will always drive your results, so you need to be thinking thoughts that support your dreams.
The results you have in your life right now is evidence of thoughts you have thought in the past.
Repeat your go-to affirmations and take some take to practice gratitude.
I swear by the Five Minute Journal from Intelligent Change.
A gratitude journal that will for sure help you to start and end your days on a happier note.
Journaling is the one thing I personally cannot miss in my personal development routine.
It tends to be the catalyst for all my creative endeavors.
Journaling will spark new ideas for both my personal life and business.
I either do Morning Pages (writing freely for 3 whole pages) or use my favorite journaling prompts for self-discovery.
Once you’ve read a chapter of an oh-my-goodness-these-concepts-will-change-my-life book, it’s time to actually implement what you’ve just read.
Passive action is all good and great, but if we don’t implement the learnings into our lives, we won’t maximize our potential – and there will not be any REAL growth.

You gotta put your new knowledge into action, girl.
Your personal development routine should be something that you really look forward to.
It’s your me-time, your special time, your dreaming big time.
Light a few candles, put on your favorite cozy outfit, turn up the Bon Iver on the stereo and bring out your favorite beverage.
Make it your best time of the day so that missing it is out of the question.
I wake up at 6 AM with a smile on my face because I am that excited to jump on into my personal development work.
Do what you can to make it attractive, fun and cozy.
Here are a few things you need to keep in the back of your mind as you pursue your new and amazing personal development routine.
It’s not like working out eating healthy.
You will not see results right away.
It took me up to 6 months before I started to see results from my mindset work.
It takes time to scrap old belief systems and to create new ones.
If you stay consistent and on track, you will have amazing results.
Trust me on this one, girl.
Your personal development routine will not feel urgent to you.
It may be important to you but in the moment when it’s time to take action, it will not feel urgent.
You will likely feel like you have to go and perfect some other project you’re working on.
However, the effects of not having a personal growth routine in place will show up in your future and not in a good way may I add.
You will not feel the benefits right away, but the effects will eventually make an appearance.
This is because it can be hard to motivate the fact that you will not immediately reap the benefits of having a personal development routine.
But now you know that it won’t ever feel urgent, so you can make it a priority and do it anyway.
Continue to show up for yourself every single day.
The best advice I can give you is to start simple.
Take things in your own tempo and start slow.
Don’t go after all the personal development-related activities at once.
Implement one activity at a time.
Mix it up and see what you enjoy the most.
Designing your own personal development routine is important, but not only that – it is also super fun.
There will likely be days when you won’t feel like working on your limiting thoughts, but know that that is when you really need to do it.
Your body is essentially telling you that you need to care for it, so pay attention.
Make your new personal development routine a habit that sticks and that you never miss.
I’d love to have you on board.
A formula for perfect parking has been devised by a London Mathematician and GM subsidiary Vauxhall Motors.
Sadly, the formula is even more mysterious than the enigma of why women can’t park or why men are physically incapable of asking directions. Professor Simon Blackburn, from the University of London’s Royal Holloway College, came up with the formula to make even the trickiest reverse parallel parking situations a breeze.
The formula resulted from a survey which showed 57 per cent lacked confidence in their parking ability and 32 per cent would drive further from their destination or to a more expensive car park to avoid a tricky parking move.
The least confident parkers were from the East of England, while the most confident were the Welsh, particularly those from Maentwrog.
Professor Blackburn told the Daily Telegraph: “Parking the car is something that most