Working Document Series Open Access Innovation systems perspectives: Institutional change to strengthen agricultural tertiary education in Sub-saharan Africa E. Adipala · Nodumo Dhlamini · Wellington Ekaya · Washington O. Ochola The changing face of African agriculture in the wake of myriad global, regional and local challenges requires adjustments in agricultural capacity development. Universities are better placed to spearhead this change but they too need to ad… RUF-35269 2010 CC BY 4.0 17 Sep 2015
Working Document Series Open Access Experiences and lessons from implementing RUFORUM supported regional MSc. and PhD programmes E. Adipala · S.C. Chindime · Nodumo Dhlamini · W.N. Ekaya +1 more This paper gives an overview on the implementation of joint postgraduate degree training programmes being run by RUFORUM, a consortium of 25 universities in the eastern, central and southern Africa region. These programmes involve joint tr… RUF-35266 2010 CC BY 4.0 17 Sep 2015
Working Document Series Open Access Comparison of field and laboratory measured hydraulic properties of selected diagnostic soil horizons J. G. Chimungu · M. Hensley · L. D. Van Rensburg This study characterised the hydraulic properties of two soil types in South Africa, Bainsvlei and Tukulu using both field (instantaneous profile method) and laboratory (desorption techniques). The results showed that the two approaches we… RUF-35033 2010 CC BY 4.0 15 Sep 2015
Working Document Series Open Access Technological change in Uganda’s agriculture between 2005-2010 R.M. Kalibwani · E. Kato · J. Mutenyo The study estimates the rate of technological change in Uganda’s agriculture between 2005- 2010 across the 4 major regions of the country. Using a nationally representative household panel data set, we use a time trend variable in the stoc… RUF-33815 2014 CC BY 4.0 10 Aug 2015