Farmer Based Organizations

• APCAM, Assemblée Permanente des Chambres d’Agriculture du Mali - Permanent Assembly of Agricultural Chambers, www.apcam.org  (144 extension staff in 2009)

• Association des Organisations Professionnelles Paysannes

Federation of Farmers and Producer Organizations:

COORDINATION NATIONALE DES ORGANISATIONS PAYSANNES DU MALI

La CNOP est constituée d’OP à compétence nationale et/ou régionale adhérente aux statuts et règlement. La mise en place de ce cadre a fait l’objet d’un consensus entre les organisations faîtières du niveau national et régional. La CNOP se veut un cadre largement ouvert à toutes les sensibilités d’OP, c’est pourquoi la charte a été rédigée et amendé progressivement avec un souci de consensus à tous les niveaux.

Adresse : Kalabancoura Rue 200 Porte 727, BP : E 2169 Bamako Mali, Tél. : + (223) 228 68 00, Fax : 272 34 88, E-mail : cnopmali@yahoo.frcnop@ikaso.net

There is a network of Centre d’Animateur Rurale (CAR) in all of Mali’s administrative units (the plan is to equip these as training centers for young farmers) 

• Division Vulgarisation et Conseil Agricole (DVCA), is organized into two sections, research-extension liaison, and extension.

1. pastoral water management (e.g., development of watering points);
2. animal product filières (milk, meat, skins and hides, poultry),
3. animal industries (e.g., abattoir management; monitoring of livestock markets), and
4. training and documentation. 

Direction Nationale du Genie Rurale;

Direction Nationale des Services Vétérinaires

Direction Nationale des Eaux et Forets

Non-Governmental Organizations

• AMASSA- AFRIQUE VERTE MALI (Association Malienne pour la Sécurité et la Souveraineté Alimentaires)
  (19 extension staff in 2009)
  

• ENDA Mali  
  (11 extension staff in 2009)

• ICD, Initiatives-Conseils-Developpement
  (23 extension staff in 2009)

• Institut Polytechnique Rural De Formation Et De Recherche Appliquee De Katibougou
  (10 extension staff in 2009)
  

• Intercooperation Suisse - Sahel 
  (2 extension staff in 2009)

• Near East Foundation
  (19 extension staff in 2009)
  

• Nyeta Conseils
  (21 extension staff in 2009)
  

• Samanko Agricultural Training Center: Total number of agricultural extension training staff: 19 (thereof female:  2; 11%)
• Office de Protection des Vegetaux (OPV): Total number of extension training staff: 122 (all male)
  

Public Research Institutions with Extension Unit

• Institut d’Economie Rurale, IER-. http://www.ier.gouv.ml/

University-based Extension

Key educational /research institutions with extension training programs or an extension mandate include:

• Centre d’Apprentissage Agricole, Samanko;
• Université du Bamako, Institut Polytechnique Rural / Institut Formation et Recherche Appliquée, Katibougou
• Institut Polytechnique Rural de Formation et de Recherche Appliquée –IPR-IFRA-http://www.ipr-ifra.org/. Maîtrise en Vulgarisation Agricole /Master in Agricultural Extension
  

Semi-autonomous Governmental Extension Organizations

Additional key governmental entities and parastatal organizations with geographically or technically limited EAS functions include:

Compagnie Malienne pour le Développement des Textiles;

Office du Dévéloppment Rural de Sélingué;

Office de la Haute Vallée du Niger; 

Office du Niger;

Office Riz Mopti;

 Office de Protection Végétaux, OPV.  

Office du Perimeter Irrigue du Baguineda;

Office Riz Ségou.

Private Sector Organizations or Firms

Several private sector companies provide some extension and advisory services

• Bureau d’Etude et d’Appuis Conseils aux Initiatives Locale, BEACIL-SARL/ Sènè Kunda (25 extension staff in 2009)

ASTI Agricultural Research and Development investments and capacity in Mali: http://www.asti.cgiar.org/mali

• Mali distinguishes itself from many African countries in terms of agricultural research centralization in having one main agricultural R&D agency—the Rural Economy Institute (IER)—that accounted for roughly 85 percent of the country’s agricultural researchers and expenditures in 2001.
• In addition to government contributions, IER was largely dependent on funding from the National Agricultural Research Project (PNRA) and the Agricultural Services and Producer Organizations Program (PASAOP), drawn predominantly from World Bank loans, and financing from the Netherlands through the IER Support Project (PAPIER).

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Mali is active in the CILSS, Comité permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (Permanent Interstate Committee for the Fight against Drought in the Sahel),  ww.cilss.bf