African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services

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The CAADP-XP4 institutions successfully hold a portfolio joint review, Advisory Committee and Technical Committee meetings

NAIROBI, KENYA:  on 1st February, The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS), together with The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA); Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA); West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF); and the Forum for Agricultural […]

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AFAAS with CAAPD XP4 organisations demonstrate KM progress at the KM4AgD conference

In December, AFAAS joined other Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme ex-Pillar 4 (CAADP-XP4) partner organisations (ASARECA, CCARDESA, CORAF and Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)) at the project’s first Knowledge Management for Agricultural Development (KM4AgD) conference. Hosted by FARA the hybrid continental conference brought together knowledge management experts of the different partner institutions implementing

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AFAAS Organizes the 5th Africa Wide Agricultural Extension Week held at Speke Resort Munyonyo, Kampala Uganda

Download the declaration here Declaration in English Déclaration en Français Arabic / إعلان The 5th Africa Wide Agricultural Extension week 2021 is a continental event that brings together different participants from across Africa and globally to deliberate on strategic issues in agricultural extension and advisory services (AEAS) in Africa. This year, the 5th AAEW 2021

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AFAAS signs a MOU with African Agricultural Technology Foundation to Enhance Technology Adoption and Utilization in Africa

Kampala Uganda: On 16th November 2021, the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services together with the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) actualized their partnership by signing a Memorandum of Understanding to enable the two organizations carry out complementary research and innovation for Africa’s smallholder farmers. This was during the 5th Africa Wide Agricultural Extension Week

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Uganda Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (UFAAS) awards AgriHackthon winners

The Uganda Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (UFAAS) and Dostrim Limited jointly organised for the first time a week-long Hackathon under the theme “Digitalizing Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services for Effective Service Delivery”. Dostrim Limited is an ICT firm, and member of UFAAS’s ICT technical working group under a Sub-grant from the African Forum for

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Champion Teams from Uganda Hackathon 2021

Agriculture is a main source of income for the majority of Ugandans and employs the biggest percentage of the country’s population both directly and indirectly. However, agriculture faces a great range of challengeswhich include price ignorance, inaccessibility to market as farmers only focus on markets close to them. This could be affected by surplus in

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Tapping into Sustainable Land Management resource portal to enhance Extension

Digitalisation of Agricultural Extension and Advisory Service in Africa is a new trend supported by the AFAAS since the year 2020. The adoption and promotion of digital tools and platforms has not only been mandatory because of the COVID-19, but also because AFAAS intends to be more effective and efficient in reaching and empowering a

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Countdown to 5th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week

The 5th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week (AAEW) is scheduled from 14-20 November 2021 in Kampala, Uganda with the participation of a variety of players including policy makers, development partners and implementers agricultural extension programmes. The AAEW is co-hosted by the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) and the Government of Uganda. The President of

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Integrating knowledge management is a game changer in agriculture research and development

Marc Ghislain Bappa is a Knowledge Management and Communications Specialist with over six years of work experience with development institutions at national, regional and international levels including the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the Feed the Future Africa Lead II Program and the Expertise France_Investment Climate Reform Facility. He is currently the

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Focus on digital solutions for rural under development with AFAAS Hackathon 2021 in Madagascar

As part of the continental Hackathon organized by AFAAS, Madagascar – through FCA Madagascar and AVANA HUB – launched its qualifier heat from 28 to 30 September 2021.  About 20 teams, composed of over 70 developers, participated in the Hackathon at the national level. The first 6 teams, at a rate of two per theme,

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