May 22, 2023 • AU-SAFGRAD Participation in Water for Food Global Conference. 8th to 11th May 2023, Nebraska, USA
May 4, 2023 • Article: Drought in African Sustainable Agri- Food Systems: Slow Processes with a Severe Impact (Intervention of AU-SAFGRAD). by Dr. Ahmed Elmekass, Coordinator AU-SAFGRAD
March 21, 2023 • AU-SAFGRAD’s Participation in the 2023 Regional Climate Smart Agriculture Policy Dialogue
December 16, 2022 • Validation Workshop of the Report on Scope, Opportunities and Challenges of Irrigation and Agricultural Water Management Practices in Africa. 7th -8th December 2022, Nairobi, Kenya
November 8, 2022 • Training of Young African Professionals (French-speaking countries), Efficient Irrigation and Agricultural Water Management Solutions Enabling Water Saving and Cost Reduction for Agricultural Transformation in Africa
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.