News And Events

28
Mar

CALL FOR REGISTRATION OF INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANTS, SUPPLIERS, CONTRACTORS, CONSULTING FIRMS & OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR GOODS, WORKS & SERVICES FOR 2022/2023

Date: 28th March 2022 The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) is registering new Suppliers, Individual Consultants and other service providers for the years 2022/2023. The exercise is also intended to clean our current Supplier/Consultant database of dormant vendors and admit new ones to improve the system. Prospective and eligible firms and Individuals interested in transacting business with FARA

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28
Mar

FARA and Partners award eleven (11) Multi-Stakeholder Partnership organizations’ in East Africa with grants to promote “AIRTEA”

FARA in partnership with ASARECA and the East Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) and with funding support from the EC, ACP, and OACPS Research and Innovation, has awarded eleven (11) Multi-Stakeholder Partnership organizations from Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya with grants totaling about 2.5 million euros aimed at “Strengthening Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Ecosystem for Inclusive Rural Transformation & Livelihood in Eastern

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21
Mar

FARA visits AAU

  The Executive Director of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), Dr. Yemi Akinbamijo, paid a courtesy call on the Secretary-General of the Association of African Universities (AAU), Prof. Olusola Oyewole, for bilateral talks between the two continental bodies. Accompanying the FARA boss was Ms. Ama Pokua Asenso, Human Resource and Administration Manager. From the AAU side, the

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14
Mar

FARA delegations pay a courtesy visit to the Ambassador of Brazil to Ghana.

The Executive Director of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa Dr Yemi Akinbamijo today led a three-person delegation from FARA on a courtesy visit to HE Maria Elisa de Luna, Ambassador of Brazil to Ghana. The FARA delegation spent the time with the Ambassador to bring the latter up to date on the status of implementation of the Agricultural

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28
Feb

AU- Common African Agro-Parks Programme (CAAPs) proposed as an Agenda 2063 Flagship Programme for the next 10 Years Implementation Plan.

The Department of Agriculture, Rural Development Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment of the AUC in collaboration with the African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim Bank), the Secretariat of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) organized the Second meeting of the Common African Agro-Parks (CAAPs) Steering Committee (CAAPs-SC) on at the margin of

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24
Feb

Mainstreaming the Continental Knowledge Management for Agricultural Development (KM4AgD) Agenda in Ghana.

By: Mr Paul Atsu (YPARD Africa, Accra, Ghana) Despite the gains made towards achieving Agricultural Transformational development in Ghana, significant challenges remain in ensuring that the newly promoted Akosombo Integration Agenda to deliver sustainable services continues well into the future. A recent scan on knowledge management in the Ghana agricultural sector reveals that Ghana’s agriculture sector was not knowledge-driven, and there was generally a lack of a learning

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22
Feb

Request for Proposals: Provision of various training programmes to FARA Staff – Re-advertisement

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RE-ADVERTISEMENT)  Technical Services: Provision of various training programmes to FARA Staff Name of Project: CAADP-XP4 Procurement Ref: FARA/TrainProGs/RFPs/2022/01 Date: Monday, 21st February 2022 Submission Deadline Tuesday, 8th March 2022 The human resources of FARA comprise the primary asset the organization relies upon to perform its mandate. The management of these resources and specifically the attraction, retention, motivation,

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10
Feb

Request for Proposals: Provision of various training programmes to FARA Staff

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS   Technical Services: Provision of various training programmes to FARA Staff Name of Project: CAADP-XP4 Procurement Ref: FARA/TrainProGs/RFPs/2022/01 Date: Friday, 9th February 2022 Submission Deadline Friday, 18th February 2022 TORs for Training Programmes The human resources of FARA comprise the primary asset the organization relies upon to perform its mandate. The management of these resources and specifically

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3
Feb

Call for RLC Workshop Scholarships

Applying agricultural interventions and rural development strategies: Sustainable and bio-diverse agro-ecosystems for smallholder resilience. April 4-9, 2022, Nairobi, Kenya BACKGROUND The Right Livelihood College (RLC) is a global education and research initiative of universities and the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ (www.rlc-blog.org). Together with ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’ awarded individuals and organizations, the RLC promotes transdisciplinary

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2
Feb

REOI: Consultancy to develop a user-friendly compendium of forgotten food commodities in Africa

REQUEST FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT)   Consulting Services: Consultancy to develop a user-friendly compendium of forgotten food commodities in Africa Name of Project: FARA/FAO-RAF Activity Ref No: GF.RAFTD.RA4030226HP00.5575 Procurement Ref: FARA/CS/IC/2022/01 Date: Monday, January 31, 2022 : Submission deadline February 14, 2022   Food and nutritional security are significant developmental challenges in recent times. Africa is recorded to

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