Executive Committee

The Executive Committee

The committee is made up of the President, Vice-President, Past President, Secretary and four regional representatives from Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern Africa; and Chief Editor of AfJARE Journal. The Secretary is non-elective post. The committee holds office for a period of about two years and new officer bearers elected at the next General Meeting of the Association. The inaugural executive committee was elected during the launch of the Association in December 2004, in Nairobi, Kenya (see members below). The second AGM was held at the Second international conference during 20-22 August 2007 in Accra Ghana and new executive committee elected to run the Association until 2010 conference in Cap Town, South Africa.

The Association is continuously developing a database of national representatives in order to mobilize members and coordinate Association activities in individual African countries and Diaspora. If your country does not have a representative, contact the Secretariat in order to initiate the process of identifying one.

Regional demarcation

The regions represented in the committee covering the whole of Africa were renamed and constituted as follows:

Western Africa (including Cameroon, Central Africa republic and Gabon)
Eastern Africa (including Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar and Mauritius)
Southern Africa
Northern Africa

Current Executive Committee

Inaugural Executive Committee

Akinwumi Adesina - President

Associate Director

The Rockefeller Foundation

Eden Square 5th Floor, Block 1

Chiromo Road, Westlands, P.O. Box 66773 – 00800, Nairobi, Kenya; Tel: +254 20 3750627/8/9, 3750632/3/5/7, 3750641/2/3/6/8 & 3750650; ISDN 254 20 3675000; Fax: +254 20 3750653

E-mail: aadesina@rockfound.org

Egnonto Koffi-Tessio – Vice President

Head of Department of Rural Economics and Sociology

Head of LARPSAD, Université de Lomé/E.S.A;

B.P. 1515 Lomé, Togo; Bus. Tel : (228) 225-41-97/2508184; Fax : (228) 221-00-72/2218595

Home Tel : Tél.(228) 226-94-69 Cell : 228 9033710

E-mail: emtessio@yahoo.fr ou sadaocel@cafe.tg

URL: http://www.univ-lome.tg/larpsad/index.html

Willis Oluoch-Kosura – Past President

Program Director, Collaborative Master of Science Program in Agricultural and Applied Economics (CMAAE)

C/o African Economic Research Consortium (AERC),

4^th Floor, MEBANK Towers, Milimani Road,

P.O. Box 62882-00200, Nairobi, Kenya; Phone (254) 20-2734150/57/63/66/79/83; Fax: (254) 20- 2734170/73

Email: willis.kosura@aercafrica.org

Musa N. Omare - Secretary

Executive Director, Forum for Organic Resource Management & Agricultural Technologies (FORMAT)

5th Floor, Muthaiga Shopping Centre, Limuru Rd.

P.O. Box 79 Village Market 00621, Nairobi, Kenya

Tel: 254. 20 6752866; Email: africancrops@wananchi.com

Rose A. Nyikal - East & Central Africa

Department of Agricultural Economics

University of Nairobi, Box 29053-00625, Nairobi; Tel: +254 722 248405; Email: ranyikal@mail.uonbi.ac.ke

Dr Julius Mangishoni - Southern Africa

Rural Development Department

Bunda College of Agriculture

University of Malawi, P.O. Box 219, Lilongwe, Malawi

Tel: +265 01277434/419/222; Fax: +265 01 277364

Email: jmangisoni@yahoo.co.uk, mang@sdnp.org.mw

Dr Lassaad Lachaal - Northern Africa

Development Research Dept (PDRE); EPI Tower C, Room 7B3; African Development Bank; BP 323, 1002 Tunis, Tunisia; (Temporary relocation)

Tel.: (+216) 71 10 34 87; Fax: (+216) 71 10 37 79

E-Mail: l.lachaal@afdb.org website: http://www.afdb.org

Prof Rashid M. Hassan, Chief Editor, AfJARE Journal
Director, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), Dept Agricultural Economics
Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
University of Pretoria, Room 2-6, Agric. Annexe, Pretoria 0002, South Africa, +27-12-420 3317 (Office)
+27-12-420 4958 (Fax), www.ceepa.co.za

Willis Oluoch-Kosura - President

Acting Program Director

Collaborative Master of Science Program in Agricultural and Applied Economics (CMAAE)

C/o African Economic Research Consortium (AERC),

4^th Floor, MEBANK Towers, Milimani Road,

P.O. Box 62882-00200, Nairobi, Kenya

Phone (254) 20-2734150/57/63/66/79/83

Fax: (254) 20- 2734170/73

Email: willis.kosura@aercafrica.org

Akinwumi Adesina - Vice President

Associate Director

Food Security Program, The Rockefeller Foundation

Eden Square 5th Floor, Block 1

Chiromo Road, Westlands

P.O. Box 66773 – 00800, Nairobi, Kenya

Tel: +254 20 3750627/8/9, 3750632/3/5/7, 3750641/2/3/6/8 & 3750650

ISDN 254 20 3675000; Fax: +254 20 3750653

E-mail: aadesina@rockfound.org

Musa N. Omare - Interim Secretary

Forum for Organic Resource Management & Agricultural Technologies (FORMAT)

P.O. Box 79 Village Market 00621, Nairobi, Kenya

Tel: +254. (0)20.675.2866

Email: africancrops@wananchi.com

Isaac J. Minde - East & Central Africa

Senior Scientist (Economics)

International Crops Research Institute for Semi_Arid Tropics, P.O. Box 776, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Telephone (Off) +263(0) 83 8311-15

Fax +263(0)83 8253 or 8307

E-mail I.Minde@cgiar.org

Egnonto Koffi-Tessio - West Africa

Head of Department of Rural Economics and Sociology

Head of LARPSAD

Université de Lomé/E.S.A

B.P. 1515 Lomé, Togo

Bus. Tel : (228) 225-41-97/2508184

Fax : (228) 221-00-72/2218595

Home Tel : Tél.(228) 226-94-69 Cell : 228 9033710

E-mail: emtessio@yahoo.fr ou sadaocel@cafe.tg

URL: http://www.univ-lome.tg/larpsad/index.html

Johann Kirsten - Southern Africa

Head of Department Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, South Africa

P.O. Box 14303 Hatfield 0028, Pretoria, South Africa
Tel: 27 12 420 3248 or 27 12 420 7576
Email: johann.kirsten@up.ac.za

Mohammed Moussaoui - Northern Africa

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), P.O. Box 415, Rabat, Morocco
Tel. 212 - 55 300 243 / 70 185 046

Email: moussaoui_mohamedma@yahoo.fr