This manual defines each type of action and agricultural advise with indications on the conditions of their use, approaches and of monitoring and evaluation indicators for the follow-up of these actions in the context of Morocco.
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The objective of this workshop is to facilitate the development of robust strategies to enable public agricultural and rural advisory services (P-ARAS) improve their knowledge management systems by better mobilizing the potential of ICT to address the challenge of scaling up agricultural entrepreneurship and climate-smart agriculture (ACI). This achievement is necessary to increase the contribution of P-ARAS to sustainable development in West and Central Africa.
The workshop is part of effort for the operationalization of results of recent reflections at held at national, regional and continental levels on the role of agricultural advisory services to facilitate innovation processes for an agriculture with higher performances at technical, economic and environmental levels. It will be held from 13th to 15th December 2017 in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire). It is organized by the West and Central African Network of Agricultural Advisory Services (RESCAR-AOC) in partnership with the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS), the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the National Agency for Rural Development (ANADER) of Côte d’Ivoire.
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In the current context of pluralistic agricultural and rural advisory services (ARAS), Country forum (CF) are emerging progressively as a major actor with the potential to significantly contribute to more effective ARAS and vibrant agricultural innovation systems (AIS). However, the potential of CF is not yet well-known by most AIS actors, and preliminary lessons of its operationalization in West and Central Africa (WCA) raise excitements but also concerns about its efficiency and sustainability.
RESCAR-AOC is organizing an e-conference with the objective to raise awareness on Country Fora of agricultural advisory services (CF) and facilitate learning and experiences sharing to gather useful elements for sustainable and full harnessing of their potential. The conference will run for three weeks (10th – 31st October, 2017) and is articulated around three sub-themes: (i) Country forum: Added-value in the existing innovation systems, pathways for efficient establishment (theme 1); (ii) Efficient functioning of CF (theme 2); (iii) sustainability of CF and strategies for scaling and achieving greater impacts (theme 3) The language for the e-conference will be English and French.
RESCAR-AOC operates under the tutelage of AFAAS and GFRAS with the vision of “efficient ARAS mobilized in line with the demand to facilitate sustainable development in West and Central Africa”.
To subscribe to the e-conf: ateliers@rescar-aoc.org
The International Workshop on Improving the Responsiveness of Agricultural and Rural Advisory Services (ARAS) in the context of Climate Change and Agricultural Entrepreneurship in West and Central Africa (WCA) took place from 30 September to 2 October 2016 in Limbe (Cameroon). Its overall objective was to discuss the adjustments necessary to agricultural and rural advisory services to support the transition towards climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and the development of agricultural entrepreneurship (agripreneurship) in a more efficient and inclusive manner.
The workshop was organized by RESCAR-AOC in partnership with GFRAS, CTA, GIZ, IIED / GWI, AFAAS, MINADER and ACEFA as a prelude to the 7th Annual Meeting of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) also at Limbe (Cameroon) on 3 to 6 October 2016 on the theme “Role of rural advisory services in inclusive agricultural entrepreneurship“.
Results of the workshop highlighted, among other things, that developing appropriate advise to value chains actors considering their diversity, women, youth and producers’ organisations, to facilitate the adoption of CSA and entrepreneurship is a major challenge. Knowledge management plays a crucial role in strengthening the responsiveness of ARAS. The following groups of measures were identified as necessary for ARAS to better respond to demands related to CSA and agripreneurship: (i) adaptation of approaches, methods and tools; (ii) enhanced knowledge and skills of advisors and value chain actors; (iii) improvement of practices and governance of ARAS schemes and (iv) making the institutional environment more conducive and compatible with innovations related to CSA and agripreneurship.
Documents synthesizing to the development, main results and recommendations of the workshop are available via the links below:
Executive summary of the workshop
The 3rd AFAAS Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week combined with the 51st Annual Conference of the South African Society for Agricultural Extension will take place in Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa from 30 October to 3 November 2017. The theme of the event is : “Scaling up climate smart agriculture: integrating youth, women, and the digital revolution“.
The West and Central African Network of Agricultural and Rural Advisory Services (RESCAR-AOC) in partnership with GFRAS, GIZ, CTA, GWI, AFAAS, and MINADER/Programme ACEFA is organising an international workshop in Limbe (Cameroon) from September 30 to October 2, 2016 with finalization and complementary meetings on October 2 and 7. The topic is “Improving Responsiveness of Agricultural and Rural Advisory Services (ARAS) in the context of Climate Change and Agripreneurship in Western and Central Africa”. “Better engagement with women, youth and farmer’s organizations through knowledge management.”
The overall objective of the workshop is to discuss requirements necessary to ARAS to provide more effective support for an inclusive management of climate change and agripreneurship development hence contributing to the achievement of sustainable development in West and Central Africa. This international workshop is organised back-to-back with the 7thAnnual Meeting of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) that will take place from 3 – 6 October 2016 at the same venue with the topic “Role of Rural Advisory Services (RAS) for Inclusive Agripreneurship”.
To participate, kindly fill and submit by September 12, 2016 the online registration form available here . For further information, send an email to ateliers@rescar-aoc.org
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RESCAR-AOC is organizing an e-conference with the objective to raise awareness on Country Fora of agricultural advisory services (CF) and facilitate learning and experiences sharing to gather useful elements for sustainable and full harnessing of their potential. The conference will run for three weeks (10th – 31st October, 2017) and is articulated around three sub-themes: (i) Country forum: Added-value in the existing innovation systems, pathways for efficient establishment (theme 1); (ii) Efficient functioning of CF (theme 2); (iii) sustainability of CF and strategies for scaling and achieving greater impacts (theme 3) The language for the e-conference will be English and French. RESCAR-AOC operates under the tutelage of AFAAS and GFRAS with the vision of “efficient ARAS mobilized in line with the demand to facilitate sustainable development in West and Central Africa”.
To subscribe to the e-conf: ateliers@rescar-aoc.org
RESCAR-AOC stand for the western and central African network for rural advisory services and includes mainly – but not solely – the French speaking countries in that area: