Partnership

• Strengthening capacities of national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES) 

• Strengthening cooperation between national and international institutions

• Enhancing exchanges between different countries and institutions (beyond language barriers)

• Coordinating and planning research and training

• Using of a common approach (agro-ecological, participatory and inter-disciplinary)

• Promoting methodological coherence

• Taking advantage of all existing research findings

• Regionalizing location-specific knowledge

• Orienting research activities towards extension