The Annual General Meeting (AGM) Concept Notes

The Annual General Meeting oversees RUFORUM’s program and management and performs such functions and tasks that it deems necessary to carry out its mandate and accomplish its mission.     RUFORUM’s Vision and Mission recognize the largely unfulfilled role that Universities play in contributing to the well-being of small-scale farmers and economic development of countries in Africa

 
The pre- AGM events

1. Moving forward the UNFSS 21 Action Plan: Need for Collaborative undertakings. 31^st Aug 2022 || English  || French || Portuguese || Arabic
2. Transforming Higher Education in Africa: moving from Dialogue to Action. 05^th Sept 2022 || English || French || Portuguese || Arabic
3. Strengthening human capital development in Africa: where are we and what are the needed actions? 05^th Oct 2022 English || French || Portuguese || Arabic
4. Strengthening Agri-Food Systems Research Capacity in Africa: Overcoming Bottlenecks to Current and Future Challenges.12^th Oct 22 ||English ||French ||Portuguese ||Arabic  
5. Exploring Future Frontiers for Global Collaboration and Partnership in the Field of Higher Education and Research in Africa. 26^th Oct 2022 || English || French || Portuguese ||Arabic
6. The movement of change-makers in Africa 10^th Nov 2022 || English || French || Portuguese || Arabic
7. The 20th Principals and Deans Committee Business Meeting, 17^th Nov 2022 ||. English || French || Portuguese || Arabic
8. Pre-online training: Student community engagement for achieving sustainable food security through water-energy-food nexus approach 23^rd Nov 2022 || English || French || Portuguese || Arabic
9. Bringing our Soils Back: Enhancing Soil Health and Fragile Ecosystems Management in the Middle East and Africa 23^rd - 24^th Nov 2022 || English || French || Portuguese || Arabic ||

      
   The main AGM events 

1. Briefing to the Government of Zimbabwe and the press. 9^th Dec 2022 || English ||
2. Student community engagement for achieving sustainable food security through water-energy-food nexus approach 09^th - 10^th Dec 2022   || English ||
3. Proposal Writeshop: African Agricultural Adaptation Research, 10 - 11 December 2022,  || English ||
4. Curriculum Training of Trainers and University Managers in African Universities 10^th-13^th Dec 2022 || English ||
5. Research Methods (Proposal Development and Scientific Writing Training) For Postgraduate Students || 10^th -11^th December 2022 || English || 
6. Scientific Data Management for Post-Graduate Students Using R Programming Language for Researchers and Post-Graduate Students,10th-16th Dec 2022 || English ||
7. Building a movement of change-makers in Africa: Every Dot Counts. 11^th Dec 2022 || English || 
8. Transforming Africa’s Higher Agricultural Education Institutions for Economic Growth and Development (TAGDev 2.0) Program 11^th Dec 2022 || English || 
9. Official Opening of the Scientific Conference 12th Dec 2022   || English ||
10. Scientific Sessions: Joint Convening with the African Crop Science Society 12^th- 14^th Dec 2022 || English || 
11. Interactive Session for Carnegie Corporation of New York funded Fellows and Graduate students. 12^th Dec 2022 || English ||
12. Young Innovators Training and Award Ceremony 12-16 Dec 2022 || English || French || Portuguese 
13. Building Resilient Crop Systems in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges 13^th Dec 2022 || English || Arabic ||
14. Exploring possibility of Partnership for Building Capacity for less endowed Countries in Africa 13^th Dec 2022 || English || 
15. Insects in Africa- Undercovering the Potential, Practice and Science 13^th Dec 2022 || English ||
16. Transiting Innovations to Commercialization: Challenges and Lessons learnt 13^th Dec 2022 || English ||
17. Agribusiness curricula of 2030 for jobs and entrepreneurship || English || 
18. Creating Convergence of Investment in Higher Education in Africa for Greater Impact. - Technical Experts Dialogue 13^th Dec 2022 || English || 
19. Community Action Research Platforms (CARPs):  Building Socially Relevant Universities for Community Impact 13^th - 14^th Dec 2022 || English
20. Creating Convergence of Investment in Higher Education in Africa for Greater Impact. - Vice Chancellors Forum 14^th Dec 2022 || English || French || Portuguese || Arabic
21. Creating Convergence of Investment in Higher Education in Africa for Greater Impact. - Ministerial Round Table Dialogue 14^th Dec 2022 || English || French || Portuguese || Arabic
22. Harnessing Digital Technologies for Teaching and Learning 14^th Dec 2022 || English || French || Portuguese || Arabic
23. Win-Win Collaboration for Academia and private sector in Africa’s agri-food sector 14^th Dec 2022 || English || French || Portuguese || Arabic
24. Resilience Frontiers for African Rangelands in the Face of Natural Disasters 14^th Dec 2022 || English ||
25. Increasing collaboration between post-graduate university training of plant breeders, crop technologist and the food security and nutrition value chain in Zimbabwe 14^th Dec 2022 || English ||
26. Official Opening Ceremony of the 18th RUFORUM Annual General Meeting, 15^th Dec 2022 || English ||
27. The 21st RUFORUM Board Meeting 15^th Dec 2022 || English ||
28. RUFORUM-WACREN Workshop: Validation of the Needs Assessment for Open Data and Knowledge Repository 15^th Dec 2022 || English ||
29. Research and Innovations in Agricultural Greenhouse Gases; A Collaboration between the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture and the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases 15^th Dec 2022 || English ||
30. Fostering Agricultural Productivity and Value Addition for Enhanced Food and Nutritional Security in Africa 15^th Dec 2022 || English ||
31. RUFORUM Business Meeting 16^th Dec 2022 || English || 
32. Closing Ceremony of the 18^th RUFORUM Annual General Meeting 16^th Dec 2022 || English ||