African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services
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 …
From the stories documented in the ten Countries by the CFs (Cameroon – CamFAAS, Ethiopia – ADPLAC, Ghana – GFAAS, Kenya – KeFAAS, Madagascar – FCA, Malawi – MaFAAS, Mali – FOSCAR, Nigeria – NIFAA, South Africa – SAFAEAS and Uganda – UFAAS), high level capability is being exhibited by the various CFs in providing …
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 …
African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) is a Continental body that brings National Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) under one umbrella. The AFAAS’ goal is to enhance utilization of improved knowledge, technologies and innovations by agricultural value chain actors for improving productivity oriented towards their individual and national development objectives. AFAAS Operational Plan …
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 …
In 2013, AFAAS and European Union (EU) have signed a grant agreement for 4 years (2013- 2017) MDTF II Project. The objective of this Project is to reform and strengthen Agricultural Advisory Services (AAS) in accordance with the Framework for African Agricultural Productivity (FAAP) principles towards increasing agricultural productivity and food security. The project consists …