
Africa-wide Agricultural Extension Week 2019 – Announcement 25 to 29 Nov- 2019
The 4th AFAAS Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week (AAEW) will be held in Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire) with a focus on building synergies between Public and Private Sector Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) for Sustainable Agricultural Development in...

Best Practices for Fall Armyworm Management
As the planting season begins in many regions in Uganda, farmers anticipate challenges like Fall Armyworm which has continued to affect the production of crops like Maize. This has both direct and indirect impacts on the nutrition security of households. Watch...

UFAAS organises first successful National Agricultural Extension Symposium in Uganda
The 1st Uganda National Agricultural Extension Symposium was successfully held at Hotel Africana, Kampala – Uganda. The symposium was held from 13 – 15 March 2018 under the theme "Enhancing Capacity and Quality Promoting Gender Responsive, Nutrition Sensitive and...

The impact of INGENAES-UFAAS on public agricultural extension service delivery in Uganda
Bazalaki Sully Nantatya (District Agricultural Officer - Iganga district) narrates his story. The project I am currently coordinating is aimed at “increasing production and consumption of micronutrient rich foods and utilisation of community based nutrition services...

INGENAES Symposium: Promoting Gender Responsive and Nutrition Sensitive Agricultural Extension
The INGENAES project and UFAAS together are hosting the Regional Symposium March 13 - 15, 2018, in Kampala, to bring together extension stakeholders to discuss and deliberate on promoting gender and nutrition sensitive agricultural extension. The symposium will:...

Call for success stories
Deadline February 15th, 2018 The Gender & Nutrition within Extension success story competition aims to capture real-life case studies of stakeholders in Uganda who are strengthening Agricultural Extension & Advisory Services by integrating gender and nutrition...

Durban declaration: Africa agricultural extension week 2017
The Durban Declaration is an appeal to action launched by 700 delegates gathered in Durban, South Africa from 30th October to 3rd November, 2017 to deliberate in the Third AFAAS Africa Agricultural Extension Week 2017 (AAEW 2017) on the theme “Scaling Up Climate Smart...

UFAAS partners with the University of Illinois at Urbana-campaign to implement gender and nutrition integration within Uganda
The Uganda Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (UFAAS), a country chapter of AFAAS, has partnered with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to implement the INGENAES Project, which stands for, 'Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural...

Scaling up climate smart agriculture; integrating youth, women and the digital revolution
During the Africa Wide Extension Week, 2017, in Durban, South Africa, AFAAS and UFAAS team participated in visiting Karkloof farm located in uMngeni municipality. Britt and Rene Stubbs bought the farm in 1986 for beef and maize production. He decided to develop the...

Uganda Launches Guidelines, Standards, Code of Ethics and Procedures for Registration and Accreditation of Agricultural Extension Service Providers
The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries launched on Thursday 21st September, 2017 the Guidelines, Standards, Code of Ethics and Process for Registration and Accreditation of Extension Service Providers in Uganda. The event took place at Protea Hotel...
FIND US ON YOUTUBE
© 2025 UFAAS