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RUFORUM and the F&BKP

RUFORUM, the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture, has co-organized a write-shop targeting ARF Call 2 in Uganda in 2014, and the first workshop for F&B Appliead Research projects in Uganda in 2015.

About RUFORUM

RUFORUM is a consortium of 66 African universities operating within 26 countries spanning the African continent. RUFORUM is coordinated by a Secretariat hosted by Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.

RUFORUM supports universities to address the important and largely unfulfilled role that universities play in contributing to the well‐being of small‐scale farmers and economic development of countries throughout the sub‐ Saharan Africa region. The consortium has several unique features for building Africa’s innovation capacity and for engaging universities in development process and practice.

For more information, visit the RUFORUM website.

December 18, 2018Study

Inventory on Dutch partnerships in support of SHAEA

The regional project Strengthening Higher Education for Agri-Food Transformation in Africa (SHAEA) is a proposed regional loan of the World Bank to six African countries to strengthen linkages between selected anchor universities and the regional agricultural sector. To create mutual benefit and set up sustainable cooperation networks, the F&BKP commissioned to Nuffic an inventory of existing institutional relations between the Netherlands and nine African countries. »

April 7, 2016Knowledge activity

Report ARF & CRF projects workshop, Uganda 2015

From Thursday October 1 until Saturday October 3, 2015 the “Food & Business Applied Research Fund (ARF) First Call projects and Competitive Research Fund (CRF) projects workshop” took place in Entebbe, Uganda. The final report, including links to all PowerPoint presentations, has been published now. »

October 6, 2015News

Successful workshop in Uganda on knowledge co-creation and research uptake for food security

Co-creation, stakeholder engagement and commercialization of knowledge were the central themes at the three-day-workshop on Food and Business Research in Uganda. About 40 project representatives and 25 external stakeholders actively engaged to enhance the uptake of research with a strong focus on SMEs. »

November 11, 2014News

Write-shop targeting the NWO-WOTRO ARF second call

From 11 till 14 November 2014 a write-shop targeting the NWO-WOTRO Applied Research Fund (ARF) second call is taking place in Entebbe, Uganda. Knowledge Broker Nicole Metz is representing the Office of the Food & Business Knowledge Platform, which is involved in the preparation of the ARF calls and impact improvement during the project implementation. »