Building Capacity for Food Security in Africa: Underlying issues, challenges and opportunities
Abstract
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Africa’s development will depend largely on three key factors;
political stability, a vibrant agricultural sector and a pool of skilled,
innovative and entrepreneural graduates able to spur
innovations. This paper outlines the rationale for bringing
together over 300 African M.Sc. and PhD students, together
with their university peers and other mentors to a conference
on “Building Capacity for Food Security in Africa”. The
conference was held 20 - 24 September 2010 in Entebbe,
Uganda. The aim of the conference was to share lessons on
on-going research and training being done at various African
universities with the purpose of building capacity in support of
the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development
Programme (CAADP). The article provides the rationale and
expectations for organising the conference.
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