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CLIMATE CHANGE is here with us; KeFAAS in-bid to foster farmers!

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In bid to promote Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), the Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services – Kenya (KeFAAS) through its membership has strived to provide technical knowledge, management skills, and information services that smallholder farmers need to improve their livelihoods in the rapidly changing global climatic conditions. The approach is seen as a solution to help […]

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Does the coronavirus pandemic accentuate the need to digitize Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) in Madagascar?

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The health crisis linked to the coronavirus has turned the world upside down. No sector of activity was spared like agriculture, and more specifically AEAS activities. That’s why FCA Madagascar (1), Forum du Conseil Agricole Madagascar or Agricultural Council Forum Madagascar, conducted a small survey among its members in order to identify possible solutions and

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Climate Smart Agriculture for Smart farmers in Malawi

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Malawi Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services visited a farmer field school in Lilongwe on their mission of knowledge management and sharing. The extension advisory service provider Mrs. Monique Mandala took the team to a most surprising and educative place Phanga Village where there is Phanga Farmer Field School. It’s all smiles for small holder farmers

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Gender roles in Climate Smart Agriculture in Cameroon

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The gender gap in agriculture is a pattern, recognized worldwide; in which women compared to men have less access to productive resources, financial capital and to advisory services. This gap affects how men and women access and benefit from Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA). Men and women, due to socially-constructed gender roles, are vulnerable to climate

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REVISED CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR PROVISION OF TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES TO AFAAS – FS SUPPORT HUB IMPLEMENTATION IN EAST AFRICA REGION – AGRIBUSINESS CONSULTANT

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Proc. Ref. No. AFAAS/FAO/CQS/2020/0014
Approved AWPB&PP 2020
Country: Africa
October 5, 2020, at 10.00 a.m.

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Double benefits for youth and private actor participation in scaling up successful extension approaches and scale up: Opportunities and challenges

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Different extension approaches have been developed and tested.  Among these approaches include farmer field schools (FFS) and Smallholder Horticulture Empowerment and Production (SHEP) approach. Their success is largely pegged on among other factors, such as how they have assimilated youth and private actors as agents and participants or beneficiaries. Their integration is critical in scaling

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Gainful youth participation in extension and advisory services

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Youth present an opportunity toward addressing the extension and advisory services capacity gap. On the one hand, youth should be targeted as clientele of extension; on the other, as providers. Compared to other continents, Africa has the highest youthful population globally, a situation that is not likely to change in the next decades. In Africa

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