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MaFAAS for coordinated response to COVID-19 in extension delivery

CF News, COVID-19, Malawi, Newsletter /

By Aubed Kang’ombe ZuluMaFAAS CIKM Officer Extension service delivery involves farmer to extension worker meetings, trainings, shows and Information Communication Technology (ICT). Farmer to extension worker contact has become a major challenge in the COVID-19 period and this has affected extension delivery for all stakeholders in the field of extension. Participatory rural appraisals where farmers […]

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Ending Gender Based Violence in Agriculture Sector with Gender Champions

CF News, European Union, FAO, Gender, GIZ, Malawi, Mobile /

Winfred Khwangwala, 66, is married, with 5 children and 4 grandchildren. He is a community-based facilitator and gender champion for Malamulo Farmer Field School (FFS) at Helemani Village, Traditional Authority Khwethemule in Thyolo. He became a full- time farmer in the year 2017 following retirement from his profession as a Printer at Malamulo Publishing House

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Deepening and widening strategic partnerships and collaborations through Farmer Field School

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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

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EXTENSION FOR RESILIENT FOOD SYSTEMS AMIDST COVID-19

AFAAS News, COVID-19 /

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

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BRIEF REPORT ON VIRTUAL MEETING ON COVID-19 AND EXTENSION IN MALAWI

COVID-19, Malawi /

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

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Handover e-meeting and appointment of the new board

Governance, SARFAAS /

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

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Are Agricultural Extension Actors in Africa ready ? It seems not, see this report.

AFAAS News, COVID-19 /

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

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The Southern Africa Regional Forum for Agricultural Advisory Service (SARFAAS) leads the way in organising e-election in AFAAS

Governance, Newsletter, SARFAAS /

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

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IGNITING CAADP-XP4 PROJECT

AFAAS News, CAADP XP4, Newsletter /

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

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