SAA has been working hand in hand with smallholder farmers in Africa for over 30years.
NEWS
SAA News
October.22.2018
Makerere University honors Late Ryoichi Sasakawa
The late Ryoichi Sasakawa, the founder and the former chairman of Nippon Foundation and one of the founding fathers of Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA), received Honorar...
October.17.2018
Sasakawa Africa Association welcomes new Regional Director
The Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Mel Oluoch as new Regional Director. Dr Oluoch will be based at the SAA Regional Office...
September.10.2018
SAA Appoints New Country Director for Ethiopia
Dr. Fentahun Mengistu is the new Country Director of SAA/Sasakawa Global-2000 Ethiopia. He has taken over the leadership, as of September 1, 2018, from Dr. Aberra Debelo...
Voices from the field
April.5.2019 / Ethiopia
“ They come from great distances to our shop-TheAlen Tesfa women’s agro-processing cooperative”
Tige Gelaw is from the Awabel woreda of the Amhara region in Ethiopia, bordered on the south by the famous Abay River, known as the Blue Nile. Tige is a member of Alen Te...
March.20.2019 / Mali
Malian National Director of Agriculture ‘Very Satisfied’ with SAA Interventions
As part of the partnership between SG 2000 Mali and the National Directorate of Agriculture (DNA), national supervisory field visits are held to identify and document ach...
February.13.2019 / Uganda
“ Why don’t you join Sasakawa?” The Story of the Nyarakot Group
The Nyarakot Farmer Field School 1 is situated in Asinge C of the Nyarakot parish, in Tororo District, Uganda. It consists of 30 members, 18 of whom are women, and its ac...
December.22.2018 / Mali
Supporting farmers to produce quality seed
Dr Fousseyni Cissé is a veteran scientist and rice breeder at the Malian Institute of Rural Economy (IER).
SAA works in collaboration with IER to produce quality seed ...
WHAT WE DO
SAA builds the capacity of smallholder farmers
in Sub-Saharan Africa along the agricultural value chain.
SAA builds the capacity of smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa along the agricultural value chain.
SAA Publications
SAA History Book "Take it to the farmer"
September.23.2016
Electronic version of SAA History Book is available here.
Newsletter of the SAA
February.1.2016
Electronic versions of Feeding the Future are available here.
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