SAA News
Makerere University honors Late Ryoichi Sasakawa
October.22.2018
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...Read more
Sasakawa Africa Association welcomes new Regional Director
October.17.2018
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...Read more
SAA Appoints New Country Director for Ethiopia
September.10.2018
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...Read more
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Courtesy call on H.E. Mr. Nicéphore Soglo and H.E. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
September.6.2018
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (MoFA) and The Nippon Foundation co-hosted the Core Group Meeting of the Eminent Persons Group on Peace and Stability in Africa o...Read more
Mr.Yohei Sasakawa, Chairman of the Nippon Foundation, visited Ethiopia
July.25.2018
On 19 July, the Chairman of the Nippon Foundation, Mr. Yohei Sasakawa was on transit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on his way to the Comoros for a working visit . SAA st...Read more
Voices from the field
“ Without SG 2000 intervention, we would have been battling with abject poverty”
May.7.2019 / Nigeria
The Story of the Kafin Gana Farmers’ Cooperative
The Kafin Gana Farmers’ Cooperative, in Jigawa, northwestern Nigeria, began life as a rotating savings and credit asso...Read more
“They come from great distances to our shop” - The ‘Alen Tesfa’ women’s agro-processing cooperative
April.5.2019 / Ethiopia
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...Read more
Malian National Director of Agriculture ‘Very Satisfied’ with SAA Interventions
March.20.2019 / Mali
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...Read more
“ Why don’t you join Sasakawa?” The Story of the Nyarakot Group
February.13.2019 / Uganda
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...Read more
Supporting farmers to produce quality seed
December.22.2018 / Mali
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 ...Read more
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SAA History Book "Take it to the farmer"
September.23.2016
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September.23.2016
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