University Engagement with Farming Communities in Africa

ISBN-13: 9781032481203 / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Opis

This book explains and explores how collaborations can be built and strengthened between African universities and farming communities to address real-world contemporary challenges.

Spis treści

Introduction – Anthony Egeru, Patrick Okori, Megan Lindow

Part I

Chapter One – Designing for Relevance: a new orientation for research

Anthony Egeru, Megan Lindow, Patrick Okori

Chapter Two – Building Value Chain Innovation Platforms with Communities

Megan Lindow, Anthony Egeru, Kay Muir Leresche

Chapter Three – Universities Fit for Purpose

Megan Lindow, Anthony Egeru, Kay Muir Leresche

Chapter Four – Learning in Motion

Megan Lindow, Anthony Egeru, Kay Muir Leresche

Chapter Five – Change Agents, Ripple Effects, Wider Impacts

Megan Lindow, Anthony Egeru, Kay Muir Leresche

Chapter Six – Facilitating a Student and Community-centred, Experiential Approach to Research and Innovation

Nancy Mungai, Duncan Ongeng, Patience Mshenga, Megan Lindow

Part II Introduction

Chapter Seven – Enhancing agribusiness rice clusters and market linkages for food security and incomes in northern Uganda

Basil Mugonola, Apollo Kasharu, Jimmy Lamo, Daniel Ogwang

Chapter Eight – Enhancing safflower production and product development for food security and improving incomes of small-scale farmers in Botswana

Emongor Vallantino Erone, Bamphithi Tiroesele, Moatshe Onkgoletse Mashiqa

Chapter Nine – Sustainable commercial pineapple value chain system for increased yield and income, and improved livelihood of smallholder farmers in Central Region of Ghana

Festus Annor-Frempong

Chapter Ten – Empowerment and Poverty Reduction in Rural Coastal Kenya through the cassava value chain

Samwel Onyango, Agnes Mwang’ombe, D.C. Kilalo, P. Waswa

Chapter Eleven – Impacting livelihoods through the CARP cassava value chain project in Nakuru County, Kenya

Richard M.S. Mulwa, Joseph W. Matafari, Joshua O. Ogendo, Peter F. Arama, Bockline O. Bebe

Chapter Twelve – Seed potato production in Nakuru: Outcomes and implications of an active multi-stakeholder platform

Anthony Mwangi Kibe, Mariam Mwangi, Agnes Nkurumwa

Chapter Thirteen – Inclusion of Farmer Communities in Value Chain Development: A case of potato in southwestern Uganda

Johnny Mugisha, Peter Waswa, Napoléon Heri Bahati-Kajunju, Abel Atukwase

Chapter Fourteen – Enhancing Pig Production and Marketing for Smallholder Farmers in Northern Uganda

Elly Kurobuza Ndyomugyenyi, Tony Aliro, Walter Odongo

Chapter Fifteen – Building Competitiveness for Communal Farmers through Developing the Wool Value Chain in the Free State Province of South Africa

Jan W. Swanepoel

Chapter Sixteen – Climate-Smart Agriculture: improving dryland crop yields and value addition through university-community partnership in Zimbabwe

Mandumbu Ronald, Nyamadzawo George, Nyakudya Innocent Wadzanayi, Kamota

Agathar, Kubiku Friday N. M

Chapter Seventeen – Enhancing Community Adaptation through Climate Resilient

Agriculture: Encroacher bushes value chains initiative in Otjozondjupa Region,

Namibia

Angombe S., Togarepi C., Mupangwa J. and Ndinomuwa, H.

Chapter Eighteen – The Empowerment of Women and Youth: Enhancing climate-smart productivity of vegetables and key livestock value chains, Sudan

Muna Mohamed Elhag, Tafaol E. Ali, Luna M. Musa, Igbal E. I. Mohamed, Mutasim A. M. Elagab and Ali E. Eljack

Chapter Nineteen – Strengthening the Beekeeping Value Chain in Western Kordofan State, Sudan

Ahmed Idris, Ali Mohamed, Asma Hamad, Ruhama Abdallh, Osman Khmis, Hana Mohammed

Chapter Twenty – Improvement of Indigenous Coping Strategies in Famine-Stricken Darfur, Sudan

Elkhalil, Elhadi. A. I., Osman, H. A. H., Elzein, A. E. M., Mohammed, E. M.; Ahmed, E, E. A.

Chapter Twenty One – Scaling up African baobab food products valuation through enhancement of their safety and value chains for food and nutritional security in Benin (West-Africa)

Assogbadjo A.E., Hounkpèvi A., Salako K.V., Chadaré FJ., Idohou R., Gbèdomon C. and

Glèlè Kakaï R.

O autorze

Anthony Egeru is the Training and Community Development Manager at the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) Secretariat and is an Associate Professor at Makerere University, Uganda. His research focuses on stochastic environmental change processes and social systems, and he has facilitated community action research across 23 African countries.

Megan Lindow is a writer based in Cape Town, South Africa, whose work focuses on documenting complex processes of development and change in spaces of education, research, agriculture and food systems, climate change, gender equality and sustainable development across Africa and beyond. She holds an MA in journalism from Stanford University, USA, and an MPhil in Sustainable Development from Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Kay Muir Leresche is a former Professor of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics at the University of Zimbabwe, Africa. After retiring, she chaired the RUFORUM Technical Committee from 2004 to 2017 and worked with many international development and research agencies. She is committed to supporting universities to catalyse the transformation of sustainable and inclusive agriculture in Africa.