African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services instance of organization
The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS), is a continental organization for strengthening Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) in Africa. It operates within the framework of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), a venture of the African Union in the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). AFAAS is an autonomous subsidiary of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA).Overview
AFAAS is the continental umbrella organization for strengthening national Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) in Africa. Each member country is ultimately expected to establish a Country Forum (CF) through which its activities are to be implemented.
The agricultural body has the mandate to implement the agricultural advisory services aspects of CAADP, a programme of the AU. CAADP has four pillars. AFAAS works in close collaboration with other continental and sub-regional bodies contributing to CAADP, most notably those in the areas of agricultural research, organizing farmers, and private sector involvement.
Cognisant of the fact that the African Union Commission (AUC) recommitted itself to enhancing the CAADP momentum by adopting the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods in June 2014, AFAAS reaffirmed its commitment to the cause by signing an MoU with the AUC in April 2015.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 first Regional Networking Symposium on Innovations in Agricultural Advisory Services, which was held in Kampala, Uganda in October 2004. The initial member countries were Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda.
The second Symposium was held in 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. At this Symposium, it was decided that the network should go beyond Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and include all of Africa. This necessitated the change of the name to the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services and AFAAS was consequentially legally set up as an NGO in Uganda and became the successor body to SSANAAS in 2011.
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