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BACKGROUND The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) serves as the continental platform for mutual learning, collaboration, and innovation among Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) actors across Africa. Mandated by the African Union Commission, AFAAS plays a pivotal role in strengthening AEAS to enhance agricultural productivity and drive inclusive, resilient, and sustainable food […]

  BACKGROUND The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) serves as the continental platform for mutual learning, collaboration, and innovation among Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) actors across Africa. Mandated by the African Union Commission, AFAAS plays a pivotal role in strengthening AEAS to enhance agricultural productivity and drive inclusive, resilient, and sustainable

1)      Background: The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) is mandated by the African Union Commission to promote lesson learning, knowledge exchange, and innovation in Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) across Africa. As a continental network, AFAAS plays a key role as a convener and intermediary organization, linking research, policy, extension, and practice.

Background and Rationale The AU–EU International Research Consortium (IRC) on Food, Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) is a bi-continental, multi-stakeholder platform launched in 2022 to strengthen coordination, alignment, and coherence across African and European research and innovation (R&I) ecosystems. The IRC operationalizes the FNSSA Roadmap 2027–2036, under the framework of the AU–EU High-Level Policy

Background The International Research Consortium (IRC) on Food, Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) is a bi-continental, AU–EU co-owned platform under the HLPD on STI. It operationalizes the FNSSA 2027–2036 Roadmap through six interdependent Functional Working Groups (FWGs) that act as a “network of networks,” co-led by African and European institutions and anchored by regional

Call for Expression of Interest (EOI) Procurement of LLM Engineering Firm for the Digital Extension Services Project – GF Project Investment Name: Nigeria Public Private Partnership AI-enabled Digital Advisory PlanningContract Ref No.: AFAAS/GF/QCBS/2025/0018Investment ID: INV-069417Date: 4th November, 2025 About AFAAS The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) serves as the continental platform for mutual

Call for Expression of Interest (EOI) Procurement of Legal Expert/Firm in Data, Digital Law and AI for the AI-Driven Advisory Services Project – GF ProjectInvestment Name: Nigeria Public Private Partnership AI-enabled Digital Advisory PlanningContract Ref No.: AFAAS/GF/QCBS/2025/0019Investment ID: INV-069417Date: 4th November, 2025 About AFAAS The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) serves as the

REQUEST FOR QUOTATION Dear Esteemed Bidders, The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) has received grant funding from the European Union funded by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) under Grant Number: 2000002981 towards the implementation of the CAADP-XP4 Organisations under the initiative “Development Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA)” Project. For the