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[RUFORUM Postdoc Fellowship] Dr. Agaba Rolland’s Experience

Latest Updates - Mon, 20/06/2022 - 16:25
Earning a fellowship does not come easy but through hard work and in-depth conceptualization and critical thinking. Following release the call for postdoctoral fellowship proposals by RUFORUM with Support from Carnegie Corporation of New York in April 2022. The call was seeking proposals from recent doctorate holders to improve their teaching, research, leadership and mentoring... Continue Reading →

[RUFORUM Postdoc Fellowship] My GTA Experience

Latest Updates - Mon, 20/06/2022 - 11:34
Linda Chinenyenwa Familusi – is a 34 years old Nigerian and holds a Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics obtained from Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique. She also holds a BAgric. in Agricultural Economics and Extension (Agricultural Economics major) obtained from the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Linda is presently a Lecturer in the... Continue Reading →

EFARMU-Uganda: Record Keeping Made Easy

Latest Updates - Mon, 20/06/2022 - 10:28
One of the great challenges faced by modern day dairy farmers in East Africa is the inability to access genuine farm inputs and the ability to monitor their farm productivity. Our dairy industry is a young, vibrant and rapidly growing sector and mainly developed by the private sector. Despite this rapid growth, dairy farmers are... Continue Reading →

RUFORUM and its alumni boosted my business venture

Latest Updates - Fri, 17/06/2022 - 12:50
My name is Dorah Momanyi. I met Napoleon Heri Bahati Kajunju in March 2021 when I was relocating to Makerere University for a 5 months’ fellowship. Napoleon is a Congolese currently living in Uganda. My supervisor and some colleagues I had met in Uganda recommended me to him. I had limited funds and limited knowledge... Continue Reading →

[PBL-BioAfrica] Student Post: Initial feelings with accelerated growth for SMEs in Zambia

Latest Updates - Fri, 17/06/2022 - 11:57
The HAMK in Africa project offers students and lecturers a great opportunity to broaden our perspectives and take a peek into the international world The HAMK in Africa project offers students and lecturers a great opportunity to broaden our perspectives and take a peek into the international world. Personally, I started the module Creating Sustainable... Continue Reading →

Ndejje University 2022 Prospectus

Latest Updates - Fri, 17/06/2022 - 10:10
About Ndejje University Established in 1992, Ndejje University (NDU) is the oldest private university and the fastest growing in Uganda. In 1995 the University gained its status under the ownership of the Anglican Diocese of Luweero. Later in 2002, the ownership base was expanded to include all six Church of Uganda Dioceses in Buganda Region... Continue Reading →

[Thought Piece] The University of the Free State: Embracing our Developmental Mandate

Latest Updates - Thu, 16/06/2022 - 08:52
Over the past few decades, there has been a definite shift in the role of public universities, seeing that it has evolved from an almost exclusive focus on academics to a more society-focused role. This includes embracing our development function – not only internally in relation to our staff, students, and institutional operations, but also... Continue Reading →

[Press Release] FAO Country Representative Paid a Courtesy Visit to the RUFORUM Secretariat

Latest Updates - Wed, 15/06/2022 - 09:21
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Country Representative to Uganda Dr. Antonio Querido, led a delegation of FAO representatives to the RUFORUM Secretariat. The courtesy call was part of the visit of the FAO Director South-South Cooperation Division Mr Ye Anping. Other officials from the FAO included Liu Zhongwei, Senior Programme... Continue Reading →

Inspired to stop back pain in men and women

Latest Updates - Mon, 13/06/2022 - 16:14
My name is Victor Kansiime from Buringo Maheruka Town council, Sheema District, Western Uganda. I am the second born in the family of seven children. I attended my primary school at Buringo Primary School, and I went to Bugarama High school for both my O and A Level studies.  I acquired a Certificate and a... Continue Reading →

[Press Release] GCHERA Announces 2021 Laureates of the Prestigious World Agriculture Prize

Latest Updates - Mon, 13/06/2022 - 12:58
GCHERA (Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences) is pleased to announce the 2021 Laureates of the World Agriculture Prize, Emeritus Professor Marc Van Montagu of Ghent University, Belgium and Professor Mitiku Haile, Founding President of Mekelle University, Ethiopia in recognition of their outstanding achievements in agriculture and life science education... Continue Reading →

My experience and support to TAGDev Sponsored Students on Scholarship for the Next Generation of Scientists at Ndejje University

Latest Updates - Sun, 12/06/2022 - 20:19
Ndejje University embraced a collaboration with RUFORUM but became active in 2019 when it secured a grant for the Next Generation of Scientists where it took up twelve (12) financially disadvantaged students on scholarship. Currently, we host 3 groups of Students; 12 students in 3rd year, 34 students in 2nd year and 25 students in... Continue Reading →

Brief history of Volaille d’Or

Latest Updates - Sun, 12/06/2022 - 18:42
Volaille d’Or is an agricultural company founded in 2016 to deal with food shortage in the city of Bukavu. In a study published in 2010 on food dependence in Kivu, 85% of poultry products consumed in South Kivu and more precisely in Bukavu, were imported. The study further indicated that there were few people especially... Continue Reading →

FINAL DAY OF THE IOFS HIGH-LEVEL FORUM CULMINATED IN THE ALMATY DECLARATION

Latest Updates - Fri, 10/06/2022 - 16:27
On June 9, 2022 Islamic Organization for Food security concluded two-day Food security Forum. The High-level Forum attracts ministers, decision-makers, opinion-leaders, leading scientific experts and participants of agro-industrial sectors to discuss a wide range of issues in nutrition and Food Safety correlation. The second day of the session under the name of Youth and Food Security was primarily dedicated to the generating of youth empowerment for... Continue Reading →

[PBL-BioAfrica] Student Post: The importance of understanding each other’s culture in collaborative teamwork

Latest Updates - Fri, 10/06/2022 - 12:16
After the first workshop with students from University of Zambia and Mulungushi University, various feelings have been shared. Feelings of joy, uncertainness, exhaustion and success. By now, most of us have formed a solid bond with our team members and have come up with a premeditated plan that will hopefully lead to a successful outcome.... Continue Reading →

[PBL-BioAfrica] Building industry-university collaboration in Zambia

Latest Updates - Fri, 10/06/2022 - 12:03
HAMK has implemented an Accelerated Growth for SMEs (AGS) Co-creation and Innovation programme in collaboration with Crazy Town in Finland, University of Zambia (UNZA) and Mulungushi University (MU) in Zambia. The programme has provided concrete opportunities for co-creation, demonstration of the developed service or product concept and business logic rationale for 14 Zambian SMEs. Teams... Continue Reading →

TWO-DAY IOFS HIGH-LEVEL FORUM ON FOOD SECURITY KICKS OFF IN ALMATY

Latest Updates - Fri, 10/06/2022 - 10:02
On 8-9 June 2022 Islamic Organisation for Food Security hosted a High-level Forum on Food security in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The hybrid event was jointly organised by IOFS and Kazakh National Agrarian Research University and brought together representatives of more than 20 countries and attracted more than 1000 participants. The Forum created a dynamic platform for... Continue Reading →

Transformation of higher education through internal engagement and external partnership

Latest Updates - Mon, 06/06/2022 - 09:22
University Background The University of Eldoret (UoE) was established upon the award of Charter by the President on 11th February, 2013, as the Chepkoilel University College. The institution was founded in 1946 by the white settlers initially as a Large Scale Farmers Training Centre. In 1984, it was converted to a Science Teachers’ Training College... Continue Reading →

The African Capacity Building Foundation – Capacity Development Support Under the Strengthening African Leadership for Climate Adaptation Programme (SALCA)

Latest Updates - Fri, 03/06/2022 - 11:50
1.0 IntroductionThe African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) is a pan-African capacity building institution that seeks to develop strategic capacity for economic transformation and sustainable development of Africa. Since its establishment in 1991, the Foundation has catalysed scalable change across the continent by investing in capacity building initiatives in the public and private sectors and civil... Continue Reading →

MasterCard scholarship “scaled up”

Latest Updates - Fri, 03/06/2022 - 10:21
A scholarship scheme funded by the MasterCard Foundation – as part of a US$27.1 million program – has enabled some 535 students across Africa to earn agriculture-related degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In what could be one of the most elaborate scholarships schemes for postgraduate and discipline-specific training in Africa, the foundation, in partnership with Uganda-based Regional... Continue Reading →

Transforming the lives of smallholder pig farmers through capacity building using an experiential learning approach in the Volta Region, Ghana

Latest Updates - Thu, 02/06/2022 - 17:06
My name is John Atsu Agbolosoo and I was awarded a Field Attached Program Award (FAPA), which commenced on 12 December 2020 and ended on 29 May 2021. The main objective of this field attachment program was to train smallholder pig farmers on the development of entrepreneurial behavior skills, good farm management practices, effective feed... Continue Reading →

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