West Africa Technology Fair (WATEF) - Day 1 Morning Session

The Technology Fair is organized jointly by CORAF (West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development) and TAAT (Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation), under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS. The event is aimed at showcasing TAAT technologies, along with those from CORAF’s Centers of Specialization/Excellence, in order to open avenues for brokerage and uptake. It is seen as a platform for putting proven technologies and deliverables on the “market”, creating a situation where demand meets supply, and exposing them to potential “buyers”. The Fair will aim at establishing new partnership ventures with the private sector and other technology “buyers”. It will also help to further mainstream proven technologies into country agricultural programs, towards transformation and socio-economic development. In this regard the Fair will build upon the High-level Dialogue on Feeding Africa: Leadership to Scale up Successful Innovations, organized by AfDB and IFAD in April, 2021, and also leverage on the United Nations Food Systems Summit outcomes.

Key Objectives of the Technology Fair
The Fair, essentially, is a “marketplace” event. It will have elements of Demand, Supply and Feasibility, driving its goal of increased technology uptake and mainstreaming towards agricultural transformation.
The key objectives are:

To showcase tested and proven technologies of TAAT and CORAF for agricultural transformation.
To deepen understanding and familiarization on the functioning and potential of the technologies
To familiarize stakeholders with technology profiling instruments and platforms of TAAT and CORAF for assessment and acquisition of technologies in response to demand.
To strengthen connections between technology ‘owners’ and the private sector and other technology users.
To establish new investment and collaborative partnerships that lead to project scaling and resource mobilization.

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