East Africa Community of Practice Knowledge Sharing Event Background Agricultural extension and advisory services are critical for agricultural development. They provide mechanisms
AFAAS HISTORY
The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) was initially formed as the Sub-Saharan African Network on Agricultural Advisory Services (SSANAAS). The SSANAAS was created at the 1st Regional Networking Symposium on Innovations in AAS, held in Kampala, Uganda 11-14 October 2004. The initial member countries were Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda.
A second Symposium was held from 24-27 September 2006 in Kampala. It brought together the additional African countries of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Zambia; this brought the total of participating member African countries to fourteen.
MISSION
To promote professionalization and participatory lesson learning, strengthen capacities, enhance visibility and influence, facilitate and enhance effective and continuous knowledge generation and information exchange, and add value to initiatives in agricultural extension and advisory services through advocacy, skilling, sharing of experiences and information, and increased professional interaction.
VISION
Agricultural extension and advisory services that effectively and efficiently contribute to sustained productivity, profitability and inclusive growth of agriculture for food, nutrition and income security, job and wealth creation in Africa.
GOAL
Enhanced utilization of improved knowledge and innovations by agricultural value chain actors for improving productivity oriented towards their individual and national development objectives.
MANDATE
Implement the Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services aspects of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)- An Africa-Owned and Africa-led initiative through which interventions to transform agriculture are coordinated.
AFAAS UPDATES
UFAAS CEO (Front Centre), The Minister of Agriculture (Back centre) and the team after the Launch of the e-Agricultural Extension Symposium 2020.
By Dr Silim Nahdy Executive Director During the recent months, AFAAS has rapidly adopted to digital working mode. Board members are having
Africa must produce food strategically and buy food smartly if food and nutrition security is to be attained and sustained in the
From the 30th of March to the 3rd of April, three surveys were conducted at AFAAS; two through the networks’ Dgroups using
The AFAAS Secretariat organised a Planning Meeting to ignite the implementation of the: “Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme Ex-Pillar IV Africa Regional
AFAAS developed its first Strategy Plan for the period 2011 – 2017 whose implementation was successfully concluded. The second strategy for the
Facilitating advancement of AEAS is one of the Pillars of AFAAS, with one of the key objectives being leveraging partnerships and
OUR DASHBOARD AND VISION I am delighted to take leadership of this important institution together with my fellow members of the Board
What is the future for Agricultural Advisory Services in Africa? This was the main question during the joint regional workshop organised in
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