African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services
There is a growing awareness in the development community of the challenges in conventional agricultural extension advisory services to meet the needs of resource poor people in a rapidly changing world. As a result, more people-centred and demand driven approaches are in demand. The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach provides a platform at community level […]
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 »
SARFAAS handover e-meeting was organised on Friday the 24th of April 2020 between the outgoing key board members, Prof. Zwane Elliot (outgoing Chairperson) Mr Andrianjafy Rasoanindrainy (outgoing Secretary) and the newly elected board of SARFAAS Dr Verona Parkinson, Mrs Thembe Ngotho and Mr Charlin Heritiana. The outgoing Chairperson made a speech summarising SARFAAS history and achievements and
Handover e-meeting and appointment of the new board Read More »
Submission Date: Mon, 2020-04-13
Request for Quotation – RFQ
REF: RFQ-AFAAS/IFAD-EU/SPLS/2020/003-A
Procurement of Office Equipment [Desktop & Laptop Computers] Read More »
Submission Date: Mon, 2020-04-13
Request for Quotation – RFQ
REF: RFQ-AFAAS/IFAD-EU/SPLS/2020/003-B
Supply of Coloured Multi-functional Photocopier 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 »
The SARFAAS is the regional network of AFAAS in the Southern Africa Region. Its mandate is to coordinate and support the Country Fora (CF) in the region under the watch of the AFAAS Secretariat. One of the challenges it faces – in common with the other regional networks – is ensuring that it’s Governing Board
The vision of SARFAAS is to become a Regional Forum that enhances food and nutrition security and development through effective and efficiently coordination of Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) delivery systems in the Southern African Region and SARFAAS mission is to facilitate and promote the establishment and strengthening of Country Fora (CF) to put
SARFAAS has a new strategic plan Read More »
The AFAAS Secretariat organised a Planning Meeting to ignite the implementation of the: “Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme Ex-Pillar IV Africa Regional and Sub-regional Organisations for Agricultural Research and Innovation Project” – code named the CAADP-XP4 Project . The four-day meeting was held from 4th to 7th February 2020 in Kampala, Uganda. The general objective
IGNITING CAADP-XP4 PROJECT Read More »
AFAAS developed its first Strategy Plan for the period 2011 – 2017 whose implementation was successfully concluded. The second strategy for the ten year period from 2018-2027 was guided by; examining the AFAAS’ strategic orientation, achievements, challenges and lessons learnt; the development challenges and; stakeholders’ perspectives. The 2018 – 2027 development context for AFAAS was
AFAAS coming with new strategy and operational plan Read More »
Job Application Deadline: Thursday, March 19, 2020
OBJECTIVE OF THE ASSIGNMENT The objective of this assignment is to revamp the AFAAS portal with new functionalities to improve the communication and visibility of AFAAS and enable interactions and collaboration among different stakeholders.