Executive Committee
The Executive Committee is the top desicion making body of the Association. It reports only to the general assembly during the annual general meetings (AGM). The ExCom is made up of the President, Vice-President, Past President, Secretary/Treasurer, Chief Editor of AfJARE Journal and four Regional representatives from Eastern & Central, West, North and Southern Africa. The Past President, Secretary/Treasurer and AfJARE Editor are non-elective posts.

The committee holds office for a period of three years when new office bearers are elected at the general meeting of the members of the Association.

The 1st inaugural Executive Committee was elected during the launch of the Association in December 2004, in Nairobi - Kenya (see ExCom members below). The second AGM was held at the 2nd International conference in August 2007 in Accra - Ghana where new members of the Executive Committee was elected to be in office until the next AGM.

The third AGM was held during the 3rd International conference in September 2010 in Cape Town - South Africa where new office bearers were also elected to be in office until September 2013, during the association's 4th International conference to be held in Tunis - Tunisia.

Current Members of Executive Committee: Oct 2010 - Sep 2013
Prof. Nick Vink - President Chairman, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Stellenbosch Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602 South Africa Tel: +27 21 8084899     Dr. Juliana Rwelamira - Vice President Managing Director Sasakawa Africa Association P.O. Box 24135 - 1000 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel: +251-11-647 7670/7667 Cell: +251-91-151 2555 Fax: +251-11-647 7666     Dr. Akin Adesina - Past President Hon. Dr Akinwumi Ayo Adesina Federal Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) Area 11, Garki-Abuja     Dr. Rose Nyikal -Sec./Treasurer Senior Lecturer Department of Agricultural Economics University of Nairobi Box 29053-00625 Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 722 248405     Prof. Biyi Daramola -Editor, AfJARE Department of Farm Management and Agricultural Extension Federal University of Technology P.M.P. 704 Akure, Nigeria Tel: +234 803 333 0057, 803 805 181 0060     Dr. Philip Mulama Nyangweso - East & Central Africa Senior Lecturer - Moi University P.O. Box 4075-301400, Eldoret, Kenya Mobile: +254-723-682487     Dr. Moraka Makhura - Southern Africa Policy analyst Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) P.O. Box 14303, Hatfield, 0028, Gauteng - South Africa Tel: +27822943835     Prof. Gbolagade Ayoola - West Africa Founder/President Farm and Infrastructure Foundation 38 Panama Street, Ministers' Hill, Maitama, Abuja Tel: +2348055211560.     Dr. Mustapha Jouili - North Africa FSEG Route Mrezka, Nabeul, 8000, Tunisie
	2nd ExCom: Sep 2007 - Sep 2010 |	1st ExCom: Dec 2004 - Aug 2007