African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services
At the sidelines of the African food systems summit, Africa’s key partners in the development of agriculture have met to discuss the future of soil health and water management for better food systems. The meeting held at Lemigo Hotel discussed the core ideas or initiatives required to enable addressing gaps in soil health and water …
The new era of extension requires a multifaceted approach to achieve maximum deliverables, this was statement made by Dr Mohammed Silim Nahdy, the Executive director of the African forum for Agriculture advisory services. Speaking at the on going Africa Food systems summit in Kigali Rwanda in a meeting for Extension base actors held at the …
The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) will on the 10-12th, July 2024 hold a continental multi-stakeholder engagement and learning event to foster a collective stakeholder response in sustaining the scaling of agro-ecology and CSA practices in Africa at Capital Hotel & Spa, Addis Ababa Ethiopia. The event is aimed at developing actionable strategies …
CAADP-XP IV Multi-Stakeholder Engagement and Learning Event Read More »
by Wole Fatunbi It is now street knowledge that the availability of technology is not the central bane to improvement of Africa agriculture and management of the prime production asset, our soil. While technologies is modestly available, bringing the technologies from pilots to scale is still a key problem to overcome. Notable experts in the …
In Africa, over 85% of the population (1.42 billion) depend on subsistence farming for livelihood [1], thus making most of the national economies solely based on agriculture without the support of the advanced manufacturing sector. The African food system is off-track, and climate is changing profoundly, making climate change and food insecurity one of the …
Written by Aubed Kang’ombeZulu MaFAAS CIKM. Malawi Forum for Agricultural Advisory services recently conducted an annual farming and extension conference. The event was organized alongside the Last mile project IFAD mission which was attended by AFAAS and its CFs, GFRAS and its regional representatives. Over 50 member organizations of MaFAAS showcased different innovations being implemented …
FOSTERNG STAKEHOLDER COLABORATION AND NETWORKING Read More »
Key African institutions and CGIAR have drafted a new agriculture-for-development knowledge management (KM) framework for Africa to enhance research (and extension) collaboration that transforms and sustains food, land and water systems. The framework was co-designed by staff from staff of the CAADP-XP4 partnership including African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS), Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and …
Agriculture plays a significant role in food security and poverty alleviation, especially in the rural African households. African agriculture is however confronted by many challenges. Despite the recent progress in agricultural and land management technologies, agricultural production in most parts of the continent are still at subsistence levels with the small holder producers who dominate …
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AS AN INTERVENTION TO INCREASED AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION Read More »
KM4AgD champions 2022 Silvia Mburugu CIKM-Kenya Silvia is a Communication and Knowledge Management expert with over 10 years’ experience in managing integration and implementing projects for non-profit organizations. In addition, has corporate communications, public relations, writing and editing media relations having worked with diverse communities. Currently as the communications Information and Knowledge Management Facilitator at …
2021 KM4AgD champions Fadlullah Issa AFAAS- Nigeria Dr Fadlullah Olayiwola, Issa is a Principal Extension Specialist in the National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS), Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Fadlullah obtained his PhD in Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology and Masters in Journalism from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; MSc in Agricultural Extension …
Johannesburg, South Africa; CAADP XP4 Programme, a European Union funded Programme managed by IFAD is undergoing a Mid Term Review (MTR) organized by the International Fund for Agricultural Development(IFAD) at Birchwood Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 16th to 22nd May 2022. The MTR meeting will focus on the impact pathways of the thematic areas of the …
CAADP-XP4 programme under review in Johannesburg, South Africa. Read More »
A recent desk study assesses the aim for, and extent of, gender integration in policy documents of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), the Framework for African Agricultural Productivity (FAAP) and the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS). It proposes recommendations to strengthen gender integration in AFAAS documents to enhance the attainment of …
Gender integration in AFAAS policy in the framework of CAADP Read More »