Since more than 30 years AFC plans, implements, manages and evaluates projects in the following fields of work:

Regional and Community Development

• Sector Planning
• Regional Planning
• Spatial Planning / Land use planning
• Agricultural Policy Advice
• Macro Economics and Business Administration
• Institution Building, Organisation and Management Advice
• Infrastructure Development and Maintenance
• Tourism
• Poverty Reduction and Livelihood Programmes
• Development of (alternative) Income Sources
• Integrated Coastal Management

Financing

• Implementation and Advice of Commercial, Development and Co-operative Banks
• Institution Building
• Implementation and Development of Micro Finance Institutions
• Fund management
• Investment Funds (Communal, Social, Sector)
• Controlling Instruments and Institutions
• Vocational Education and Training

Agriculture and Food Industry

• Food Security Programs
• Crop and Horticultural Production
• Livestock Production and Services, Veterinary Medicine
• Organic Production
• Post Harvest Technologies, Processing of Agricultural Products
• Agricultural Machinery
• Marketing
• Quality Assurance and Management, Quality Labels, Marks of Origin
• Crisis Management and Recall Systems
• Advisory Services
• Vocational Education and Training
• Development of Agricultural Organisations, Association and Self help Organisation
• Co-operatives
• Consumer Protection

SME Development

• Private sector development / Business development services
• SME Development
• Value Chain Development
• Privatisation/ Restructuring
• Institution Building, Organisational Development
• Management Advice
• Public Private Partnerships (PPP)
• Development of Associations
• Vocational Education and Training
• Sector Planning
• Industry, Trade and Export Promotion
• Joint Ventures and Co-operations

Environment, Natural Resource Management

• Land and Natural Resource Management
• Land Use and Soil Conservation
• Forest Resource Management, Agro-Forestry
• Pasture Management
• Water Use and Management
• Protection of Diversity of Species, Biodiversity Conservation
• Ecosystem Conservation and Bufferzone Management
• Fisheries Management and Aquaculture
• Desertification Program

Governance and Decentralisation

• Decentralisation and Community Development
• Support of Public Administration
• Public / Communal Financing
• Pre-accession- and Parliamentary Advice in Accessing Countries
• Crisis and (Post)Conflict Prevention, Re-Integration
• Fighting Corruption and promoting Transparency
• Migration and Re-Integration Programs
• Disaster Prevention
• Development and Support of Civil Society and civil Organisations
• Social and Gender Policy
• Set-up Chambers, Associations and Administration Union