Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week (AAEW) 12th-16th May 2025
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African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services
TERMS OF REFERENCE Procurement of Individual Consultant: Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services Lead Contract No. AFAAS/IFAD-EU-AGRA/CQS/2025/0002 Activity ………………. of the approved AWP&B2025 Item …………… of the Approved PP2025 Date: 12th February, 2025 The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) is the continental umbrella organization that aims at strengthening national Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services
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The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) is the Continental umbrella Organization and platform that aims at strengthening national Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) in Africa in order to contribute to sustained productivity, profitability and growth of African agriculture for poverty reduction. AFAAS was established in 2004, with a Secretariat located in Kampala,
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AFAAS REFRESHED STRATEGY 2018 -2027 02Download INTRODUCTION1.1 Background and contextThe African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) is the continental African body that brings all agricultural extension and advisory services (AEAS), stakeholders, and state and nonstate actors under one umbrella. It embraces both public and private actors who have a stakein AEAS along the agricultural
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Malawi government is committed to continue to priotize facilitation of its agriculture extension system because it is the backbone of agriculture as a major critical sector of its economy, this was revealed by the Malawi agriculture minister Honorable Sam Dalisto Kawale, while officiating at the opening ceremony of the Policy Dialogue on mainstreaming Private sector
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‘We cannot attain our goal of the “Africa we want” and the agenda 2063, if agriculture extension is still looked at as last option support to Africa’s agriculture development initiatives.’ This was the key statement made by Honourable Sam Dalisto Kawale Malawi Agriculture Minister as he officiated the Launch of the Seventh Africawide Agriculture Extension
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At the sidelines of the African food systems summit, Africa’s key partners in the development of agriculture have met to discuss the future of soil health and water management for better food systems. The meeting held at Lemigo Hotel discussed the core ideas or initiatives required to enable addressing gaps in soil health and water
The new era of extension requires a multifaceted approach to achieve maximum deliverables, this was statement made by Dr Mohammed Silim Nahdy, the Executive director of the African forum for Agriculture advisory services. Speaking at the on going Africa Food systems summit in Kigali Rwanda in a meeting for Extension base actors held at the
The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) will on the 10-12th, July 2024 hold a continental multi-stakeholder engagement and learning event to foster a collective stakeholder response in sustaining the scaling of agro-ecology and CSA practices in Africa at Capital Hotel & Spa, Addis Ababa Ethiopia. The event is aimed at developing actionable strategies
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by Wole Fatunbi It is now street knowledge that the availability of technology is not the central bane to improvement of Africa agriculture and management of the prime production asset, our soil. While technologies is modestly available, bringing the technologies from pilots to scale is still a key problem to overcome. Notable experts in the
In Africa, over 85% of the population (1.42 billion) depend on subsistence farming for livelihood [1], thus making most of the national economies solely based on agriculture without the support of the advanced manufacturing sector. The African food system is off-track, and climate is changing profoundly, making climate change and food insecurity one of the