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Objectives of AFAAS:

To ensure that CAADP Pillar 4 directly addresses the needs of African farmers as regards advisory services, contributing to making these services more effective and relevant
To mobilise and utilise synergies across Africa for advisory service development
To ensure the accessibility of appropriate and up-to-date knowledge on advisory services from a range of sources in Africa and internationally
To empower country level advisory service stakeholders to determine their own priorities and lead efforts to improve their national and local advisory service systems
To build partnerships at national, regional and international levels between agricultural advisory services and other institutions contributing to sustained growth and transformation of agriculture
To build a continental African organisation that can sustainably support national agricultural advisory services to continuously enhance their contribution to national, regional, continental and global development objectives