Ag Prod. Prog. for Southern Africa operates in Africa.
The objectives of the Agricultural Productivity Program for Southern Africa Project are to increase the availability of improved agricultural technologies in participating countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. There are three components to the project. The first component of the project is technology generation and dissemination. This component will finance technology generation and dissemination activities associated with the commodity or commodity group11 being targeted by Regional Center of Leaderships (RCoLs). The second component of the project is strengthening regional centers of leadership. This component will support activities to strengthen the core capacity of the RCoLs. The choice of activities to be financed will be driven primarily by the specific needs of each RCoL, as identified at national level. The third component of the project is coordination and facilitation. This component will finance three main categories of activities: 1) national level research coordination and management, 2) regional facilitation by Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA), and 3) Research and Development (R&D) policy analysis and dialogue.
