East Africa

Risk Comms in Agriculture

The free online training is designed to enhance learners’ ability to communicate effectively about pesticides within media narratives. The training helps you address misconceptions and manage reputations with focused risk assessment, management and communication strategies.

Plant Health Phytosanitary Program: East Africa (2019-2022)

A Kenyan coffee farmer holding freshly harvested organic fair trade coffee cherries from the coffee plant.

AFSI works to stimulate and support the capacity of EAC countries to adopt and implement international phytosanitary standards and improve trade and food security in the region. The activities supported by AFSI enhance the ability for EAC countries to work collectively as a region to harmonize standards, including procedures to better facilitate trade and prevent unnecessary delays and rejections at regional border crossings.

MRL Harmonization (2020-2024)

AFSI works across Africa to support harmonized MRLs among RECs and member states in line with international Codex standards. The project builds capacity of national and regional regulators to build robust pesticide regulatory frameworks and capacities and to set pesticide maximum residue limits (MRLs) in Africa that are science-based and backed by the WTO SPSContinue reading “MRL Harmonization (2020-2024)”