Impacting Skills In Agriculture
November 2022
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Message from the President
SAA’s Capacity Building Program, formerly the Sasakawa Africa Fund for Extension Education (SAFE), is operating in partnership with 31 universities and agricultural colleges, in 11 African countries. Its demand-driven curriculum aims at upgrading and equipping extension agents with the necessary skills to meet the varying Agriculture needs of rural communities along the agricultural value chain…
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Over the years, SAA has provided internship opportunities to hundreds of university students. This year, SAA-Uganda received 22 students pursuing Bachelor’s degrees in various agriculture related areas, including agricultural extension, agribusiness and soil sciences at the Makerere and Busitema Universities……
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The Supervised Enterprise Project (SEP) is an important component of the demand-driven curriculum for students at SAA’s partner agricultural universities and colleges. Students, who are mainly extension agents, conduct the action-oriented research projects to address agriculture related challenges faced by rural communities……
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Between June 12 and June 16, 2022 SAA-Ethiopia staff made a monitoring visit to assess the status of the capacity building program in Jigjiga University. The SAA team observed that the nursery site established with financial support from SAA……
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SAA organized an experience sharing workshop for lecturers on May 19, 2022 at Bahir Dar University, which was attended by 25 lecturers (six women) from nine universities. The objective of the workshop was to share SAA’s field level practices and innovations……
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On July 14, 2022, SAA organized a training of trainers (ToT) session at Tanzania’s Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), covering topics on Regenerative Agriculture (RA), Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture (NSA), and Market Oriented Agriculture (MOA)……
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From June 23 to 24, 2022, a training of trainers (ToT) session focusing on the e-Learning management was conducted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In attendance were 23 lecturers (four women) from eight universities, which demonstrated a willingness to adapt the e-learning system for program delivery……
