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News: News: FAO to increase capacity of African women in agriculture
984 reads The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is set to invest in securing women’s rights to land and other productive resources, developing their capacity to boost food production and creating more wealth for family farmers, while preventing and minimizing food ...more
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Resource: Resource: Field School Guidance Document Country Content AFAAS Content
778 reads Dear All, I wish to bring to your attention, the new guidance document for field school actors, developed by FAO and other stakeholders. Kindly access the link at: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5296e.pdf For more information on Field Schools in Eastern Africa, please send an e-mail to ...more
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Question: Question: Question
1253 reads web Are there any Partners in Extension and Advisory Services interested to support extension workers to galvanise their capacity? kzpn ...more
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Story: Story: Consumers… Please stop being picky!
It is the food that does not reach the market from producers. It mostly occurs in the production stage of the supply chain. Farmers’ low productivity, lack of storage, transportation and other limitations related to market systems, affect the food loss in the world. Food waste on the other hand, is ...more
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News: News: The Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Research and Learning in Africa (SAIRLA) project AFAAS Content
670 reads The UK Department of International Development is funding the SAIRLA project to generate new evidence and design tools to enable governments, investors and other key actors to deliver more effective policies and investments in sustainable agricultural intensification (SAI) that ...more
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News: News: NIFAAS Co-hosts Feed the Future Team on Developing Local Extension Capacity in Nigeria Country Content
extension professionals from both the public and private sectors, the visiting team noted that NIFAAS is positioned to deliver the needed change in the Nigerian agricultural extension system. The former GFRAS Director said that no other extension body has the capacity to bring together both public and ...more
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Story: Story: The Gayaza Schools Agricultural Innovation Platform (G-SAIP)
the lessons already learnt. The result was the Gayaza Schools Agricultural Innovation Platform (G-SAIP) A G-SAIP is an arrangement where students are imparted with basic practical agricultural skills; interact with other identified relevant actors; and passionately share their experiences with the ...more
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Resource: Resource: Closing the potential-performance divide in Ugandan agriculture (World Bank, 2018)
produced it--in Ugandan agriculture has been negative for the last two decades. This suggests that on balance the country is now getting less for equal or greater effort. While drought and pest issues likely have played a harmful role, other plausible explanations are a combination of the following: ...more
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News: News: Rwanda to create agricultural advisory services forum
all stakeholders to solve farmers’ concerns easily'. (Source: The New Times: http://goo.gl/IRuzcD) More on this can also be found on Rwanda's Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources website at: http://goo.gl/cESlwE Advisory Services Other Rwanda <a ...more
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Story: Story: Global Good Practice Note 13: Agricultural Innovation Systems
new frameworks such as ‘innovation systems’ that help in understanding how the process of agricultural innovation takes place and how its relevance and quality can be enhanced. Find out more in this Good Practice Note from GFRAS. AFAAS Support's blog 529 reads Other Innovation sub-Saharan Africa ...more