CESAAM Key Activities
- Conduct training and supervision of PhD and MSc students
- Award internship and post-doctoral fellowships
- Develop, review and conduct short courses tailored towards sustainable agriculture
- Operationalize exchange programs for visiting scientists
- Retooling for enhanced institutional and technical capacity in agriculture
- Enhance joint supervision for students through upscaled e-learning for students
- Organize international conferences and workshops for knowledge dissemination
- Procure teaching and research facilities
- Conduct targeted research aimed at addressing food insecurity
- Enhance university-public-private (including farmers’) collaboration
- Develop/review programs tailored towards sustainable agricultural research
- Enhance product development through promotion of innovation and patenting through the Agro-Science park
- Support student initiatives through agri-enterprise development
- Creation of agricultural knowledge centre
- Undertake collaborative proposal development
Challenges that CESAAM Seek to Address
- Food insecurity
- Persistent hunger
- Frequent droughts
- Youth unemployment
- Rampant disease
- Poor plant and animal genotypes equaInadte technical capacity and innovations
- Poor infrastructure, market access and high input cost
- Poor policies
CESAAM General Areas of Partnerships
- Benchmarking and international accreditation
- Research capacity building at CESAAM
- Joint supervision of students
- Staff and student exchange
- conduct regional short courses/retooling
- Collaborative research and fundraising
- Regional joint proposal writing
- Industry Internships and Research Attachments
CESAAM Areas of Collaboration
