African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services
GFRAS-YPARD Competition “Coping with COVID-19: Stories from the Field” This story won the 2nd Place in the Youth Category in Malawi Clement Musipiwa Fish is a reliable source of animal protein in Malawi. They provide an estimated 28% of the country’s animal protein supply and are critical for nutrition and food security. The country is […]
Keeping Fish Farming Practical Amidst COVID-19 Read More »
GFRAS-YPARD Competition “Coping with COVID-19: Stories from the Field” This story won the 1st Place in the Youth Category in Malawi By Joseph Gondwe CHEMA world is a livestock production company that raises “naturally raised” pigs, chickens and goats. Naturally raised means that there are raised without addition of hormones, antibiotics or animal feeds for
New Opportunities within the Dark Days of COVID-19 Read More »
By Silvia MuburuCIKM facilitator, KeFAAS Food security and economic crisis have highlighted both the urgent need and potential for developing sustainable agricultural systems. Nearly one billion people – one out of nine globally – lack access to adequate food and nutrition. It is envisioned by 2050 the global population will surpass 9 billion people, and
Dealing with emerging issue of COVID 19; underlying global food insecurity Read More »
By Dr Silim Nahdy Executive Director During the recent months, AFAAS has rapidly adopted to digital working mode. Board members are having periodical virtual meetings, connecting from twelve countries across Africa. The Secretariat has been conducting weekly or bi-weekly meetings and in addition, the AFAAS network at Country, Continental and Global levels have organized periodic
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By Aubed Kang’ombe ZuluMaFAAS CIKM Officer Extension service delivery involves farmer to extension worker meetings, trainings, shows and Information Communication Technology (ICT). Farmer to extension worker contact has become a major challenge in the COVID-19 period and this has affected extension delivery for all stakeholders in the field of extension. Participatory rural appraisals where farmers
MaFAAS for coordinated response to COVID-19 in extension delivery Read More »
Africa must produce food strategically and buy food smartly if food and nutrition security is to be attained and sustained in the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic. Agricultural extension and advisory service (AEAS) is desperately needed to broker the movement of timely information to Africa’s producers and consumers in order to enable resilience in food systems under
EXTENSION FOR RESILIENT FOOD SYSTEMS AMIDST COVID-19 Read More »
Malawi Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (MaFAAS), an umbrella body for extension advisory service providers, organized a virtual/zoom meeting through African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) zoom platform. The meeting took place on 30th of April 2020. The main agenda for the meeting was to share experiences among stakeholders on how COVID-19 has affected
BRIEF REPORT ON VIRTUAL MEETING ON COVID-19 AND EXTENSION IN MALAWI Read More »
From the 30th of March to the 3rd of April, three surveys were conducted at AFAAS; two through the networks’ Dgroups using Google Forms, one in French and another in English, and the last survey was done live with Zoom Poll during AFAAS e-meeting held on the 2nd of April 2020. Among the 1400 registered
Are Agricultural Extension Actors in Africa ready ? It seems not, see this report. Read More »