Joint Media Statement: Making our knowledge travel – A new African Union, CAADP-XP4, and CGIAR Partnership Framework for Knowledge Management

06th October 2022
by secretary

Agrinatura News

Key African institutions and CGIAR have drafted a new agriculture-for-development knowledge management (KM) framework for Africa to enhance research (and extension) collaboration that transforms and sustains food, land and water systems.

The framework was co-designed by staff from staff of the CAADP-X4P partnership<https://www.asareca.org/page/caadp-xp4-project> including African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS)<http://www.afaas-africa.org/>, Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)<http://www.asareca.org/>, Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA)<http://www.ccardesa.org/>, West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF)<http://www.coraf.org/>, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)<http://www.faraafrica.org/> and Africa Union Commission’s Agriculture and Food Security Division<https://au.int/en/directorates/agriculture-and-food-security>. They worked alongside CGIAR communications and outreach staff from the Africa Rice Centre, Alliance of Bioversity International & CIAT, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI).

This framework was part of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) Knowledge Management for Agricultural Development (KM4AgD)<https://km4agd.faraafrica.org/introduction-22/> challenge, …….. Click to Read More<https://km4agd.faraafrica.org/making-our-knowledge-travel-a-new-african-union-caadp-xp4-and-cgiar-partnership-framework-for-knowledge-management/>