African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services
Field testing of bio-based technologies is underway at the BIO4Africa test sites in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal and Uganda. Now attention has turned to the inclusive and sustainable business models that will secure the technologies’ long-term contribution to food and nutritional security and incomes across rural Africa. AFAAS presents the outline for the business models […]
Abuja-Nigeria: The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Abubakar has called for all African countries to embrace climate smart agriculture if they want to see an Africa where food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty will be reduced and Farmers livelihoods improved. Dr. Abubakar stated this at the Regional Policy Dialogue on Integration of Climate
PROC. REF: RFQ-AFAAS/IFAD-EU/SPLS/2022/009
Deadline: 04:00 PM (Kampala Time), Friday, 21 October ,2022
RFQ AFAAS-IFAD-EU-SPLS-2022-009 -Supply of Communication & Visibility materials. Read More »
The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) through its strategy on digitalizing Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (D4AEAS) employs various channels to reach the small holder farmer with appropriate agricultural information. In this view, the Uganda Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (UFAAS) organized a training on Videos for Farmers from 11th-13th October, 2022 in
UFAAS ‘Videos for Farmers’ training kicks off in Nakaseke District Read More »
Nairobi-Kenya: The 3rd Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Biennial Report (BR) stressed that “access to quality advisory services in agricultural production is important in all relevant segments of the food system”. There is a line that most Researchers won’t usually cross between the lab and the dusty field, yet that line makes all the difference in making
CAADP-XP4 Consortium Reconnect Research to Extension (R2E) Read More »
Contract No. AFAAS/IFAD-EU/SVCS/2022/0020
Activity 1.1.4(ii) of the Approved AWP&B2022
Deadline: October 17, 2022, at 11:00 a.m
RFQ-AFAAS/IFAD-EU/SVCS/2022/008
Deadline: Monday,3rd October 2022,Time 10;00AM
Accra-Ghana: The African forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) on the 16th September signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The European Alliance on Agricultural Knowledge for Development (AGRINATURA) during the Science and Partnerships for Agriculture Conference held in Accra Ghana. The objective of the Memorandum of Understanding is to foster collaboration and strengthen working relationship
AFAAS Strengthens its Partnership with AGRINATURA -Signs an MoU Read More »
The CAADP-XP4 Consortium through the leadership of Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa(FARA), with funding from the European Union jointly and successfully held the Knowledge Management for Agricultural Development (KM4AgD) Conference 2022 edition from 14th to 16th September 2022 at Alisa Hotel, in Accra, Ghana. The conference themed Strengthening the African Knowledge Ecosystem for achieving & Sustaining
AFAAS Knowledge Management Champions 2022 Awarded; Determined to Reach the Last Mile Read More »
Rwanda is a small country with 26 338 km² and arable land estimated to 48% of its total area (FAO, 2016). Its population is estimated to 12,952,209 people (UN, 2019) and the majority of its rural households derive their income mainly from agricultural activities. As other countries of Eastern Africa, Rwanda has experienced the use
Contract Ref: AFAAS/IFAD-EU/CQS/2022/0018
Activity 5.1.4 (ii) of approved AWP&B 2022
Date Issued: 6th September, 2022
Deadline: September 26, 2022, at 10:00 a.m