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SPAC 2022

Science and Partnerships for Agriculture Conference.

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SPAC 2022

The Science and Partnership for Agriculture Conference is crafted to encapsulate broad-based partnerships at different levels to address key issues in Africa’s agricultural research and innovation space.

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Why You should Attend the Conference

The joint conference will provide the opportunity to leverage the participation of high-level individuals in Africa and European agriculture to jointly address pertinent emerging issues affecting the continent. The four conferences and their constituents will provide important technical and policy information from different engagements.

Save your seat for the best AR4D Conference of the year.

What Topics we will Discuss

 

Biennial Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Conference (CSA)

The Biennial Africa CSA conference will give the opportunity to take stewardship of the CSA actions especially the spate of technology generation and a foresight analysis of the plausible futures. The conference will host the continental dialogue on the Africa Climate Smart Framework (ACSAF); ACSAF is developed to respond to and plan the implementation of the AU-developed Africa Climate Change Strategy. The ACSAF dialogue also provides the opportunity to prepare adequately for CoP27 in Egypt. The conference will also host a side event for stakeholders’ consultation towards the development of the Soil Initiative for Africa (SIA). There will also be a side event that will host the meeting of the High-Level Technical Think-Tank set out to respond to emerging technological issues in African agriculture. The various side event will generate outputs that will flow into the conference outputs

Knowledge Management for Agricultural Development (KM4AgD)

The Knowledge Management for Agricultural Development (KM4AgD) is an activity of the CAADP-XP4 organizations. The KM4AgD Challenge & Conference is an annual event that seeks to build appropriate capacities, establish communities of practice for Knowledge Management and strengthen the knowledge ecosystem to accelerate the achievement of the CAADP Malabo goals by 2025 and the SDGs by 2030.
The Challenge is implemented through an integrated, strategic, educational, and transformational approach. It aims to strengthen the capacity of the knowledge management experts and run an investiture of new experts.



Long-term Europe-Africa Research and Innovation Partnership for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (LEAP4FNSSA)

The LEAP4FNSSA was a project supported by the EU to provide a sustainable platform for Europe and African institutions to partner around innovations in food and nutrition. It achieved its goal through synergies and coherence between actors, research and innovation projects, initiatives, and programs, through the development of institutional alliances and clusters of projects The project will end in October 2022 and it has commenced its sustainability plan and transition into an International Research Consortium (IRC). The conference will host its closing general assembly and the launch of its replacement initiative, the IRC.

Pan-African Network for economic Analysis of Policies(PANAP)

Pan-African Network for economic Analysis of Policies (PANAP) is established by the European Union commission and aims to foster the development of centers of excellence in Africa and to promote both the Europe-Africa and intra-Africa scientific collaboration as an element to vitalize synergies between the two continents on economic policies. PANAP was officially launched at the AU in November 2019 with the participation of 19 African partners. Its action also fosters scientific cooperation among the PANAP member . The PANAP conference will create opportunities for synergies with other relevant scientific communities and networks operating at the Africa’s continental level in agriculture.

Meet SPAC 2022 Keynote Speakers

 

Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina

President of the Africa Development Bank

Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto

Minister for Food and Agriculture Ghana

Dr. Kwaku Afriyie

Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation-Ghana

Honorable Jeanine M. Cooper

Minister of Agriculture of Liberia.

HE Nardos Bekele-Thomas

C.E.O of AUDA-NEPAD

H.E. Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko

Commissioner for the Department of Agriculture AUC

Dr. Abebe Haile-Gabriel

Assistant Director General (ADG) of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) Africa

Dr. Hans Hoogeveen

Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture

Dr. Alioune Fall

Chairperson of the FARA Board of Directors

EXECUTIVE ORGANIZERS

 

Dr. Alioune Fall

Chairperson of the FARA Board of Directors

Dr Yemi Akinbamijo

Executive Director - FARA

Dr. Aggrey Agumya

Director of Research and Innovation - FARA

OTHER SPEAKERS

 

Dr. Enock Warinda

Executive Director of ASARECA

Prof. Albert Ahenkan

Professor of SD & Head of Department, Public Admin & Health Services, University of Ghana Business School

Prof. Dr. Andreas Brandner

Executive Director, K4DP

Funding and Authorising Partners

 
AU
EU
IFAD
CAADP
AU-NEPAD
CRS
DESIRA LIFT
GOG

Organising Partners

 
FARA
AFAAS
CORAF
ASARRECA
CCARDESSA
K4DP
YPARD
CSA
FAO
IWMI
AG
GLA
EMERGING
CGIAR
AICCRA
ICIPI
SIA

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