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SG2000-Uganda recognized and awarded at the Uganda National Symposium on Agricultural Extension
Uganda Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (UFAAS) with support from USAID and its Africa wide-umbrella body – the African Forum Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) organized and conducted the first National Agricultural Extension Symposium on 12-15 March 2018 in Kampala, with the theme- enhancing agricultural extension capacity and quality: promoting gender responsive, nutrition sensitive and professional AEAS in Uganda. The 3-day event brought together Agricultural Extension and Advis...
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Video link to Kenya Television Network's (KTN) coverage of Prof. Ruth's award:2017 Africa Food Prize
Media outlets continue with their coverage about Hon Prof. Ruth Oniang'o, who has recently won a coveted accolade becoming the 2017 Africa Food Prize corecipient with the Malian agriculture entrepreneur, Madame Maïmouna Sidibe Coulibaly.
The Chairperson of the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) and Sasakawa Africa Fund for Extension Education (SAFE) has been on the front pages of various publications, including those in the four SAA focus countries of Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda....
Ruth Oniang’o, Chair of the Sasakawa Africa Association, wins the Africa Food Prize
Hon Professor Ruth Oniang’o, Chair of the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) and Sasakawa Fund for Extension Education (SAFE), has been awarded the 2017 Africa Food Prize, in recognition of her role as a leading voice on nutrition in Africa. The prize recognises the best examples of those using agriculture to transform people’s lives and stimulate economic development, and this year received over 600 nominees. The prize was awarded on the third day of the seventh African Green Revolution Forum (A...
A Milestone in Uganda
Sunny and quiet morning in Tororo district, East of Uganda boarder to Kenya. Our team comprised of staff members from Sasakawa Global (SG) 2000 Uganda and reporters who represented different media institutions were heading to meet farmers which according to the preliminary briefing managed to register a commendable achievement under a group named Nyarakoti Farmer Field School revamped by the country program and Sasakawa Africa Fund for Extension Education (SAFE). Evergreen landscape with long s...
SG-2000 Mali Celebrate 30th anniversary of SAA
March 2, 2017. The night was special for Sasakawa Global 2000 management and staff members. They were making sure that things are going as planned. Guests who were invited from different institutions are taking their designated seats in a hall arranged at Grand Azalai Hotel located in Bamako right next to the central rail station which connects the city to Dakar, Senegal.
Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) have reached a milestone in 2016. It observed its 30th anniversary with farmers, partners ...
SG-2000 Nigeria Celebrate 30 Years of SAA, Bring Together Stakeholders
SG-2000 Nigeria celebrated SAA`s 30th anniversary in Africa and 25 years in Nigeria, alongside holding the 2017 Stakeholders National Annual Review and Planning Meeting at the National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS) conference hall in the premises of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria from the 22nd – 23rd of February.
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of SAA in Africa and the 25th in Nigeria, SG-2000 Nigeria conferred special recognitions and honored disti...
SG-2000 Ethiopia Celebrate 30 Years of SAA, Hold Stakeholders Meeting
Sasakawa Global 2000 (SG-2000) Ethiopia marked Sasakawa Africa Association`s (SAA) 30th Anniversary of service to smallholder farmers of Africa, the 24th in Ethiopia, and holding Stakeholders’ Symposium in Adama from March 30 to 31st , 2017 in the presence of H.E. Dr. Eyasu Abraha, Minister of Agriculture & Natural Resources of Ethiopia, H.E. Mr. Sileshi Getahun, Vice-President of the Oromia regional state and head of the Agriculture & Natural Resources bureau, and H.E. Mr. Osmar Suru...
SG 2000 Mali Empowering Communities, Media Witnessed Activities
Malian journalists from reputable media institutions and their crew had successful three days devoted to visiting and reporting on Sasakawa Global (SG) 2000 Mali interventions from October 25 – 27, 2016. Office de Radio diffusion Télévision du Mali (ORTM), the national broadcaster of the West African state of Mali, and Africable Television, among others, were part of the visit.
The visit focused on exchanges with farmers and extension agents, from the field to the market to households, on the ...
SG 2000 Ethiopia Held Field Days Interacting Media, Beneficiary Farming Communities
Sasakawa Global (SG) 2000 Ethiopia held a three-day field days from September 30 – October 2,, 2016, in different localities of Benishangul Gumuz and Oromia states of Ethiopia, in the presence of reporters and their crew representing the country`s major electronic and print media, as well as high ranking federal, regional, and zonal officials.
The visiting media witnessed firsthand SG 2000 Ethiopia`s interventions and interacted with beneficiary communities. The visiting officials equally hail...
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