About us
The Cameroon Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (CAMFAAS) was set up in 2014 and formalized in 2016. In view of the importance of Cameroon’s development prospects and specifically of each of its five agroecological zones, CAMFAAS presents itself as an advisory agent for all matters concerning rural advisory services in Cameroon. Indeed, while agricultural extension or advisory services play a crucial role in the implementation of the national agricultural investment plan, many farmers, including the most vulnerable, still do not have access to these services or benefit from them only with great difficulty, given the ratio of one (01) advisory support agent for more than 2,000 producers.
Our current projects
CAADPXP4
African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) is a Continental body that brings National Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) under one umbrella. The AFAAS’ goal is to enhance utilization of improved knowledge, technologies and innovations by agricultural value chain actors for improving productivity oriented towards their individual and national development objectives. AFAAS Operational Plan (OP, 2018-2022) sets three major measureable objectives that are clearly linked and support its Strategy 2018-2027. These include: i) Strategically deliver knowledge of “good fit”, and inputs, products and engagement that are sound and influential in promoting, encouraging and extending knowledge and information exchange among AEAS leaders, academics, researchers, providers, practitioners and value chain participants and actors; ii) Empower AEAS networks, service providers and actors to put to use the knowledge acquired, and facilitate their direct access to technologies needed to trigger knowledge application and deliver solutions to achieve impacts at multiple scales and shape AEAS management and delivery in positive ways; and, and iii) Sustain and enhance the AFAAS networking functions and AEAS thought leadership – Institutional development and services to members; Partnerships for strengthening capacities to achieve impacts at multiple scales; and Foresight, thought leadership and coordinating opportunities, initiatives and learning.
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme Ex-Pillar IV Africa Regional and Sub-regional Organisations for Agricultural Research and Innovation (CAADP-XP4) is an important project that should ensure the continuation of the Main CAADP programme that brings research and innovation institutions together. The CAADP-XP4 links research and innovation with development initiatives to boost the transformation of innovation in agriculture and food systems to make them more resilient to climate change and better respond to development demands. Its objective is to enable agricultural research and innovation, including extension services, to contribute effectively to food and nutrition security, economic development and climate mitigation in Africa.
Business school
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SERVInnov
The SERVInnov project (2018-2022) is a joint Europe-Africa research and innovation (R&I) initiative related to and innovation (R&I) initiative related to food and nutrition security and sustainable sustainable agriculture called “EU-AU LEAP-AGRI program”. This project aims to strengthen innovation support services for the development of innovations for sustainable food and agricultural sustainable food and agricultural production, improving the well-being of rural populations and the reduction of environmental degradation and natural resources. It is implemented in implemented in three African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Madagascar. Ma (https://servinnov.cirad.fr/). Funded by the French Development Agency (AFD), the project is (AFD), the project is implemented by a consortium of 10 partners, five of which are involved in the activities in Cameroon. involved in the activities in Cameroon. These are the Centre de coopération internationale in Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD), the European Institute for Cooperation and Development (IECD), the University of Dschang, the University of Hohenheim in Germany, and the A f r i c a n F o r u m o f C o n s e r v i c e s (AFAAS) represented by the Cameroonian Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (CAMFAAS).
A first workshop “Accompanying innovations for the transformation of agriculture and agribusiness: exchange of experiences and useful recommendations for organizations
that support producers and entrepreneurs with innovation projects in Cameroon “was organized on March 31, 2022. It allowed: (i) to present the dysfunctions, (i) to present the dysfunctions, levers of action in the mechanisms of accompaniment of the innovation documented by success stories or failure situations in the framework of the SERVInnov project, but also (ii) to highlight the needs for change expressed by organizations and companies,
Recent achievements
Promotion of the Public-Private Partnership with the organisation of a national dialogue
Conducted three policy dialogues on public-private partnerships on climate-smart agriculture and on entrepreneurship
Supporting several member organisations in the implementation of their projects
Conducted three training sessions on the new advisor's kit
Promotion of climate-smart innovations
Promotion of the "advice to the last corner" approach
Co-organiser of the International Farmers' Innovation Fair
Contributing to the continental mapping of climate-smart agriculture in Africa
Local organisation of several events such as the GFRAS annual meeting in Limbé, Cameroon in 2016.
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