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Story: The Facebook Era is over

To be sure, Facebook isn’t going away tomorrow. However the days of Facebook’s growth and inevitability are behind it. So, what’s next for social networking? Here are three predictions: more

Africa ICTs and Mobile Knowledge Management Advisory Services Innovation New Technology Other Technology

By Dan Kisauzi 22/11/18

Story: From training to practice: Impact of INGENAES Project on Uganda Agricultural Extension Service delivery

Africa Agricultural Extension Advisory Services Post Harvest

By SIYA AGGREY 28/03/18

Story: Nigeria's soil-free salad farm: How one young entrepreneur is growing greens in shipping containers - no soil needed.

Hydroponics is a subset of hydroculture, which is the growing of plants in a soil less medium, or an aquatic based environment. more

Nigeria Agriculture Crop Production Agribusiness Agricultural Inputs Best Practices Climate Change Drought Food Security Innovation New Technology

By Dan Kisauzi 11/02/18

Story: INGENAES FELLOWS ATTEND 3RD AFRICA-WIDE AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION CONFERENCE, 2017 IN DURBAN (SOUTH AFRICA)

The 3rd Annual AFAAS Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week 2017 was held October 30th thru November 3rd in Durban, South Africa. more

Africa Agricultural Extension Agricultural Research Communication Gender Knowledge Management Other Best Practices Events and Proceedings Gender Lessons / Synthesis

By SIYA AGGREY 27/11/17

Story: SCALING UP CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE; INTEGRATING YOUTH, WOMEN AND THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION.

During the Africa Wide Extension Week, 2017, in Durban, South Africa, AFAAS and UFAAS team participated in visiting Karkloof farm located in uMngeni municipality. Britt and Rene Stubbs bought the farm in 1986 for beef and maize production. He... more

Africa Agricultural Economics Agricultural Engineering Agricultural Extension Agricultural Innovation Systems Agricultural Research Agriculture Environment and Landuse Finance and Investment Advisory Services Agribusiness Best Practices Climate Change Gender Research

By SIYA AGGREY 13/11/17

Story: A Seed Revolving Fund is Driving Malawi’s Groundnut Revival

An innovative groundnut seed revolving fund in Malawi, set up by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in 1999, thanks to USAID and Irish Aid support, and managed by and for the smallholder farmers, has... more

Malawi Agricultural Extension Agricultural Innovation Systems Agriculture Nutrition Best Practices Food Security Seeds

By Dan Kisauzi 19/10/17

Story: Using Fintech to Feed the World: Four Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Finance AFAAS Content

Rural smallholder farmers in Africa – who typically farm fewer than 5 acres of land, roughly the size of five football fields – play a critical role in feeding the world’s growing population (set to hit 9 billion people by 2050). more

sub-Saharan Africa Finance and Investment ICTs and Mobile Agribusiness Agricultural Inputs Best Practices Innovation New Technology Private Sector / SMEs Services

By Dan Kisauzi 06/10/17

Story: Social Enterprise AFAAS Content

ESSENTIAL INNOVATIVE SYNERGY AFRICA- A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE A social enterprise is an activity of a nonprofit that employs entrepreneurial, market-driven strategies for earned income in support of their mission.(Nonprofits Fund) more

Kenya Agriculture Communication Knowledge Management Natural Resource Management Rural Sociology Advisory Services Agribusiness Climate Change Food Security Innovation Markets / Marketing Partnerships Poverty Services Value Chains

By Erick Ndane 19/09/17

Story: Retired agricultural engeneer, a gold for rural advisory services Country Forum

Victor Nguepi is a retired agricultural engeneer. In love with agriculture he is today a delegate of a common Initiative group 'GIC DEMTELI" with the headquater in Bafou, a village in the western Cameroon. Focusing on quality seeds and best... more

Africa Agricultural Extension Advisory Services

By BebelParfait NGUEPINANFAH 23/09/17