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Promotion of Science and Technology for Agricultural Development (PSTAD) is a project which falls under Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) Access to Knowledge and Technologies function. It it implemented by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) in partnership with Sub-regional Organisations (SROs), CORAF, ASARECA and CCARDESA and National Agricultural Research Institutes (NARs) of participating countries.

This presentation by C. Berger provides the reader with an overview about climate change terminology, definitions and uses examples to explain the points.

This presentation by Ch. Lennard and L. Van Ardenne pictures climate change projections and impacts in SADC and the importance of climate change for agriculte. Focus is put on

• The climate system
• Latest projections
• Regional challenges and downscaling
• Data vs information
• Other things we might need to know

This presentation by L. Waldmüller portrays agriculture from three sides: its role as victim, culprit and the potentials that lie within proper adaptation and mitigation measurements.

This presentation by L. Waldmüller addresses climate change as a big challenge for agriculture. It explains the idea of climate-smart agriculture and possible solutions.

Eng. Sipho Sibanda describes in this presentation the importance of post-harvest management.

Topics covered are

• what is postharvest handling
• purpos eof postharvest management
• climate change and its impacts
• factors affecting postharvest systems

The Sub-Saharan African Challenge Programme (SSA CP) is a continental initiative, led by Forum on Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), which started in 2004 with the aim of finding a solution to the observed low contribution of the agricultural sector to national economic and social growth. At that time it was established that the agricultural sector was faced with a range of constraints which led to the under-performance of the sector. One of these constraints was the vertical nature of how agricultural research was organised. This led to the proposal for a new approach to agricultural research, known as Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) as an alternative to the linear model, commonly referred to as the Agricultural Research and Development (ARD) approach.

This brochure decribes briefly the maize lethal necrosis (MLN) disease, its economic impact, how to detect it and ways to deal with it.

The Competitive Cashew initiative - ComCashew (formerly African Cashew initiative - ACi) is a private-public partnership project under the implementation of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. Currently in its third phase, ComCashew focuses on building a sustainable cashew value chain and increasing the competitiveness of African cashew production and processing by constituting a new era of multi-stakeholder partnership in development cooperation.

The ComCashew Matching Fund is a unique private-public partnership model and the only fund for cashew worldwide set up to accelerate the development of the cashew industry. After its introduction in September 2012, there are 27 Matching Fund projects being implemented in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Mozambique. Farm productivity and farmer income ultimately benefit from public and private investments. Business linkages are strengthened with the Fund. This allows reduced transaction costs and assures quality and traceability.