African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services
On December 10, 2015, Dr. Silim Nahdy, the AFAAS Executive Director and his staff warmly received Dr Yemi, FARA Executive Director at AFAAS Secretariat. The courtesy call was an occasion for the two Executive Directors to review and consolidate the partnership between the two continental organisations on Agricultural Research and Advisory Services. AFAAS and FARA […]
The African for Agricultural and Advisory Services (AFAAS), had a partnership working visit to the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) in Chatham, UK, from 1- 4th December 2015. The key outcome of the mission was the signing of the Global Partnership and Collaboration Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions, dated December 2, 2015. Professor Andrew
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The 2nd edition of the AFAAS Africa Wide-Agricultural Extension Week (AAEW 2015) was held from 12th -16th October 2015 in Addis- Ababa, Ethiopia. Participants came up with a final declaration in order to reboost Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services in Africa. The Extension Week 2015 brought together more than 300 representatives of agricultural extension and
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The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between AFAAS, Ghana Country Forum and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) during the National Agricultural Extension Policy Review Forum held in Accra from May 05-14, 2015. The Forum was convened by the Directorate of Agricultural Extension Services (DAES) of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), in
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A World Bank team undertook a supervision support mission to AFAAS from 27-29 April 2015. The overall objective of the mission was to review the implementation progress of the Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) and any operational issues since the last mission in November 2014. Part of the activities was a field trip to the Zirobwe
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The kick-off of PROIntensAfrica held at FARA Secretariat in Accra, Ghana from 21 to 23 April 2015.PROIntensAfrica is a partnership initiative between Africa and Europe on the issues of sustainable intensification of Agriculture. The project currently involves 23 research and development organization. 15 are drawn from Europe and 8 from Africa. AFAAS is one of
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Addis Ababa 13th April 2015 The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the African Union Commission-Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture (AUC-DREA).
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African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) is a continental platform for mutual learning and innovation among agricultural extension and advisory services providers across Africa. The AFAAS’ goal is to enhance utilization of improved knowledge and innovations for improving productivity oriented towards individual and national development objectives. AFAAS operates through multi-stakeholder country fora that embrace
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In its partnership policy framework, the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) to host the project Officer of the Partnerships for Seed Technology Transfer in Africa (PASTTA) project in Kampala, Uganda. The project aims to promote new, improved varieties of a wide range of
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The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has given a grant to AFAAS as a contribution towards implementation of its (AFAAS) strategic plan. The 2 years (2013-2014) grant-funded project was directed at specifically supporting five countries (Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Uganda) to establish their Country Fora (CF) and enhancing their knowledge management
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In 2013, AFAAS and European Union (EU) have signed a grant agreement for 4 years (2013- 2017) MDTF II Project. The objective of this Project is to reform and strengthen Agricultural Advisory Services (AAS) in accordance with the Framework for African Agricultural Productivity (FAAP) principles towards increasing agricultural productivity and food security. The project consists
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The project aims to improve food security (increased food self-sufficiency and incomes) of smallholder farmers in SSA through reduction of postharvest losses of food crops (grains and pulses) by addressing major constraining factors of technology dissemination and adoption, knowledge and information sharing, rural advisory services (RAS) and policies related to PHM. The PHM-SSA project is
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