Program 3: Facilitation of agricultural research and transfer of technologies and innovations in the context of semi-arid zones

 Strategic Goal 2 : enhance African capacities in research, technology dissemination and knowledge management for building the resilience of rural livelihoods in semi-arid zones of Africa.

This program will :

1. Create and facilitate operationalization of platforms focusing on streamlining agricultural research policies, strategies, and priorities. 
2. Establish competitive grant schemes to catalyse scalable and niche adaptive research.
3. Create systems for effective development, dissemination and adoption of research-generated technologies