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Engaging Youth and the Private Sector in Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services

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East Africa Community of Practice Knowledge Sharing Event Background Agricultural extension and advisory services are critical for agricultural development. They provide mechanisms for information and knowledge exchange and human capital development on management practices, technologies and innovations along agricultural value chains. This reduces uncertainties facilitating appropriate decisions with optimal returns, leading to enhanced agricultural performance. …

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UFAAS organizes Africa’s first e-Agricultural Extension Symposium: Minister launches an e-registration process for agricultural extension workers

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UFAAS CEO (Front Centre), The Minister of Agriculture (Back centre) and the team after the Launch of the e-Agricultural Extension Symposium 2020. (Photo: UFAAS) The Uganda Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (UFAAS), The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) in partnership with the Ministry of Agricultural Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) and other partners …

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AFAAS rapid migration towards a digitalized workspace

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By Dr Silim Nahdy Executive Director During the recent months, AFAAS has rapidly adopted to digital working mode. Board members are having periodical virtual meetings, connecting from twelve countries across Africa. The Secretariat has been conducting weekly or bi-weekly meetings and in addition, the AFAAS network at Country, Continental and Global levels have organized periodic …

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EXTENSION FOR RESILIENT FOOD SYSTEMS AMIDST COVID-19

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

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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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IGNITING CAADP-XP4 PROJECT

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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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AFAAS coming with new strategy and operational plan

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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 …

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New promising projects starting in 2020

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  Facilitating advancement of AEAS is one of the Pillars of AFAAS, with one of the key objectives being leveraging partnerships and projects for advancement of AEAS. Based on this, AFAAS has proactively engaged with several partners, a result of which a number of collaborative projects, key among which are  stated below,  have been approved …

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AFAAS and Partners join efforts for the future of Agricultural Advisory Services in Africa

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What is the future for Agricultural Advisory Services in Africa? This was the main question during the joint regional workshop organised in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire by the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS), Feed the Future Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC) Project, the Network for Agricultural and Rural Advisory Services (RESCAR-AOC) and African Forum for …

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AFAAS Board members advocate in Côte d’Ivoire

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Mr. Manahaya Coulibaly, Director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, received in audience on 27 June 2019, a delegation of Board members of the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) accompanied by the Executive Director and the Secretariat staff. This audience took place …

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Cote d’Ivoire to host the 4th Agricultural Extension Week in Abidjan

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The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) is organizing, in partnership with the West and Central Africa Network of Agricultural and Rural Advisory Services (RESCAR-AOC), the National Agency for Rural Development (ANADER) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Cote d’Ivoire, the 4th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week back to back with the 5th International …

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