My love for information sharing motivated me to work out this post for my followers and especially those who might not have gotten a chance to receive the AFAPP booklet or information on that subject. We have to continue sharing information thereby empowering one another. I was one of the fortunate few from Namibia who had a chance to be part of the AFAPP event and that also inspired me to elighten fellow Namibians and followers of this blog to learn more about AFAPP. More information on this subject can be obtained from FARA's Director of Policy and Advocacy, Dr Emmanuel Tambi at etambi@fara-africa.org or 233 302772823 in Accra, Ghana.
AFFAP as a continental platform seeks to enhance the effectiveness of evidence-based policy support to increase food productivity and agricultural transformation in Africa. It's vision is to be a lead continental platform of influencing policies that contribute to increased food and agricultural productivity in Africa. AFAPP's mission is to promote evidence-based policies that support food and agricultural productivity and competitiveness in Africa. The mission and vision will be accomplished by supporting the development of a robust economic research policy community in Africa, facilitating the engagement of the economic research community with policy makers over economic issues affecting food and agricultural development in Africa and promoting networking among African economic policy research institutions.
According to the document compiled by FARA on AFAPP'S establishment the platform will accomplish its objectives by catalysing the production of high-quality economic policy research to deliver emprical evidence for food and agricultural policy formulation and decision-making, connecting economic policy research institutions, policy makers and the science and development community, and communicating economic policy research results and policy options to decision-makers through workshops, seminars and conferences.
It says the founding of AFAPP within FARA's Advocacy and Policy Networking Support Function, NSF marks a significant milestone in FARA's efforts to deliver policy support to the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme CAADP. AFAPP will collaborate with the African Union Commission, AUC's Policy Analysis and Knowledge Support, PAKS Programme to the AUC's PAKS programme, but will also complement and add valu to the work of the African economic policy research institutions by harnessing their collective knowledge, information and skills to support increased food production and agriulctural transformation in Africa.
This situation is fitting in well with the 2013 Global Food Research Report by IFPRI - chapter five which highlighted the concern of poor quality research experienced in some countries based on the research it carried out in 36 countries which found various factors contributing to that. Some of the reasons included the fact that most researchers were above the age of 50% and retiring, while others included recruitment restrictions and poor conditions of services which resulted in high turn over of agricultural scientists at PhD level mainly. As a result, some countries made use of junior scientists or researchers whose work was yet to be of high standard. Through the AFAPP opportunity, a lot can be done to improve the research policy situation in Africa.
The African Food and Agricultural Policy Platform, AFAPP, was established by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, FARA in collaboration with the Centre for International Agricultural Policy, CIFAP of the university of Minnesota in USA and a panel of senior policy experts and economists drawn from within and oustide Africa.
AFFAP as a continental platform seeks to enhance the effectiveness of evidence-based policy support to increase food productivity and agricultural transformation in Africa. It's vision is to be a lead continental platform of influencing policies that contribute to increased food and agricultural productivity in Africa. AFAPP's mission is to promote evidence-based policies that support food and agricultural productivity and competitiveness in Africa. The mission and vision will be accomplished by supporting the development of a robust economic research policy community in Africa, facilitating the engagement of the economic research community with policy makers over economic issues affecting food and agricultural development in Africa and promoting networking among African economic policy research institutions.
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It says the founding of AFAPP within FARA's Advocacy and Policy Networking Support Function, NSF marks a significant milestone in FARA's efforts to deliver policy support to the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme CAADP. AFAPP will collaborate with the African Union Commission, AUC's Policy Analysis and Knowledge Support, PAKS Programme to the AUC's PAKS programme, but will also complement and add valu to the work of the African economic policy research institutions by harnessing their collective knowledge, information and skills to support increased food production and agriulctural transformation in Africa.
This situation is fitting in well with the 2013 Global Food Research Report by IFPRI - chapter five which highlighted the concern of poor quality research experienced in some countries based on the research it carried out in 36 countries which found various factors contributing to that. Some of the reasons included the fact that most researchers were above the age of 50% and retiring, while others included recruitment restrictions and poor conditions of services which resulted in high turn over of agricultural scientists at PhD level mainly. As a result, some countries made use of junior scientists or researchers whose work was yet to be of high standard. Through the AFAPP opportunity, a lot can be done to improve the research policy situation in Africa.
The African Food and Agricultural Policy Platform, AFAPP, was established by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, FARA in collaboration with the Centre for International Agricultural Policy, CIFAP of the university of Minnesota in USA and a panel of senior policy experts and economists drawn from within and oustide Africa.
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