Working Document Series Open Access Providing Opportunities to African Youths and Other Disadvantaged Groups:The Uganda Martyrs University Approach/ Strategy C.L.M. Olweny Youth is a period of building “self concept” often influenced by parents, peers, gender and culture. The United Nations (UN) youth agenda is guided by the World Programme of Action for Youths (WPAY) adopted by the UN General Assembly in 19… RUF-33154 2012 CC BY 4.0 21 May 2014
Working Document Series Open Access Establishing Innovative Higher Education Programmes in Support of Agricultural Rural Transformation in Africa: The case of FORUM and RUFORUM Malcolm Blackie · Kay Muir-Leresche The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture supports relevance and excellence in agricultural Higher Education. RUFORUM, the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture, is a collaborative netw… RUF-32916 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014
Working Document Series Open Access Harnessing Regional Capacity to Build Agricultural Capacity for Africa: The case of the Intra-ACP academic Mobility Project for 12 Universities in Africa E. Adipala · R. Batte · P. Kibwika · F. Kyazze The ACP-EU Academic mobility programme has awarded a grant of • 1,980,150 to Makerere University to support collaboration among 12 Higher Agricultural Education Institutions (HAEIs) in Africa with the aim of providing relevant and internat… RUF-32913 2012 CC BY 4.0 20 May 2014
Working Document Series Open Access Climate Change and Implication on Food and Agriculture in Africa L.A Ogallo · C. Oludhe Climate of any specific location determines the crops that can be grown, the farming system that can be adopted, the sequence and timing of farming operations as well as the livestock systems that are being practised. Most of agricultural … RUF-32410 2012 CC BY 4.0 16 May 2014
Working Document Series Open Access Orienting Higher Education to Support Africa's Agricultural Development E. Adipala · P. Okori Agriculture is Africa’s largest economic sector, representing 15 percent of the total GDP (or more than $100 billion annually). This pivotal sector just like the broader economy is resurging from a lull of no growth that marked the 1970’s … RUF-31496 2012 CC BY 4.0 3 Oct 2013
Working Document Series Open Access Food System Dynamics in Africa: Anticipating and Adapting to Change S. Haggblade · I.J. Minde · D. Tschirley This paper underscores the scope and nature of needed responses to the rapidly changing food systems in Africa. The paper identifies key drivers of this change and estimates their magnitudes. The drivers identified are urbanisation, per ca… RUF-31495 2012 CC BY 4.0 3 Oct 2013
Working Document Series Open Access The Difficult Art of Partnership and Institutional Commitment C.E.S. Larsen This paper looks at two aspects of institutional development in a university setting. It looks at how the design of South – North collaboration may have a bearing on the type of partnership that evolves. And it addresses the issue of how i… RUF-31491 2012 CC BY 4.0 3 Oct 2013
Working Document Series Open Access Prospects of Agricultural Development in Africa: Implications for Agricultural Education and Training I. Annor-Frempong The status of both food security and human development in Africa is affected by the performance of agriculture. Agriculture does not only determine the availability of food which is the key element for attaining food security; it is also t… RUF-31482 2012 CC BY 4.0 3 Oct 2013
Working Document Series Open Access Global Change and the Future of African Agriculture: What Role for Higher Education? S. Carter · P. Sanginga Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is confronted with multiple dimensions of global change, from the atmospheric to the political and economic, from environmental to the demographic and cultural.Change is continuous, and largely unpredictab… RUF-31480 2012 CC BY 4.0 3 Oct 2013
