November 23, 2023 • AU-SAFGRAD collaborated on the project of Nutritional Characterization of Major Food Crops in two west African countries.
November 9, 2023 • Save the Date: 14 November 2023, 13h00 – 15h00, CRIC21 Samarkand. ‘Drought at Glance: the Africa Region and Beyond’
October 20, 2023 • AU-SAFGRAD in the media: Dr Ahmed Elmekass works for Agricultural Productivity in Semi-Arid Zones in Africa /video/. “africa24tv”
October 16, 2023 • Training of young irrigation professionals on Managing Irrigation Schemes and Adaptation to Water Scarcity in African Agriculture. Medea, Algeria, 01-12th October 2023
Program 7.3. Facilitating farmers’ organizations, livestock associations and forest-based organizations to use information and knowledge on CSA best practices to promote sustainable crop, livestock and forestry production to help build their resilience.
Program 7.2. Supporting knowledge management, including the documentation (by national and regional research organizations and advisory service institutions) of CSA best-practice experiences and lessons that help build resilience and facilitate their widespread dissemination and scaling-up across the semi-arid zones of Africa.
Program 7.1. Increase the number of staff of AU-SAFGRAD who will, in collaboration with partners and stakeholders, develop and manage projects that effectively address the broad areas of resilience building in SAZ.
Program 6.3. Strengthen research- and training-related capacity for Land Degradation at the Conference of Parties (CoP) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Program 6.2. Mainstream land degradation, desertification, climate change and risk management approaches into NAIPs and RAIPs
Program 5.3. Enhance the capacity of African young researchers/relevant stakeholders on the challenges of land degradation, desertification, and climate change adaptation.
Program 5.2. Strengthen collaboration and partnership between the NARS and the CGIAR Organization and other research institutions in order to facilitate implementation of resilience-building activities
Program 5.1. Support commodity-based ‘Innovation Platforms’ to incorporate issues of resilience building, including mainstreaming of CSA.
Program 3.3. Support NSAs to promote the use of the AU Land Policy and Pastoral Policy Frameworks in the development of NAIPs and RAIPs.