African Union Semi-Arid Food Grain Research and Development’s
About AU SAFGRAD
The African Union Semi-Arid Food Grain Research and Development’s (AU-SAFGRAD’s) goal is to contribute to sustainable food security of smallholder agricultural producers and others chain actors in the semi-arid zone (SAZs) of Africa by helping build their resilience to crises and shocks. The SAZs of Africa occupy a large area that spans from Senegal in West Africa through Tunisia in North Africa, Djibouti in East Africa to South Africa. These zones are among the most challenging areas of the world and will become even more so as a result of climate change. The SAZs of Africa are also vulnerable to conflicts arising partly from natural resource use com petitions and other socio-political causes.
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The 10th Special session of AMCEN and Africa Preparatory meeting for UNCCD COP16. Abidjan, Ivory coast, 29 Aug. to 6 Sep. 2024
AU-SAFGRAD in collaboration with UNCCD Secretariat, UNEP and the Government of Cote d’Ivoire, facilitated the organisation of the 10th Session of AMCEN back to back with the Africa Preparatory meeting to UNCCD COP16. The meeting was made of 4-day technical session 2-day ministerial consultation. AU-SAFGRAD mainly focused effort in the...
About SAFGRAD
“To lead, coordinate and facilitate the formulation of appropriate policies and programs that would build resilience of rural livelihoods in semi-arid Africa through strengthening of institutional capacities aimed at advancing agricultural research, technology transfer and adoption; enhancement of value chains; management of natural resources; and mitigation and adaptation to climate change and combating desertification as well as other related areas”Read More
