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This document presents highlights of a study commissioned by the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) as part of its effort to improve the level and quality of Doctoral training in Africa. It involved …
So pressing are Burundi’s needs for well-trained agricultural researchers, that when Micheline Inamahoro arrived at Makerere University in Uganda in 2008 to complete a masters degree in plant breeding and seed systems, she was eight months…
This study was conducted to trace agriculture graduates from 1993 to 2008, with the view of generating relevant information that could possibly feed into curricula review to ensure that agricultural training institutions are able to produc…
The poor performance of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is known to be largely due to the lack of effective and client- responsive agricultural research and development that could generate appropriate technologies and innovations to stim…
As the most densely populated country in the world, Rwanda is currently considered to be food-secure, but faces steep food security challenges because of its population density and its reliance on small-scale agriculture: some 85 percent o…
Climate change has impacted on livelihoods, food security and health across wide swathes of Eastern Africa’s arid rangelands, producing a tremendous need for new knowledge, technologies, and scientists who are equipped to help the region w…
As part of follow-on activities to SCARDA, RUFORUM is helping to document experiences from the SCARDA project. This report describes experiences and lessons from some of the SCARDA trained graduates and the impact of the MSc training on th…