University Engagement with Farming Communities in Africa

Name: University Engagement with Farming Communities in Africa | Community Action Research Platforms
ISBN: 978-1-003-81233-3

Community Action Research Platforms

Anthony Egeru Megan Lindow Kay Muir Leresche(Herausgeber*in)

Taylor & Francis (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 1. Dezember 2023

328 Seiten

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

The book focuses on Community Action Research Platforms, an approach that has successfully enabled African universities to break free of the ivory tower and prove their relevance to society through deep collaborative engagements in targeted agricultural value chains. Developed in a pan-African network of universities (RUFORUM) focused on capacity building in agriculture, the approach has been tested in diverse settings over the last 15 years. The book draws on the experiences and lessons from 21 different projects initiated by RUFORUM member universities in Benin, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. It highlights a critical yet underutilised role for African universities as collaborators and catalysts for multisector solutions. These are solutions that increase productivity and address climate change. They develop livelihoods and resilience in rural communities, as well as promote farmers' access to markets, innovation and trade while safeguarding biodiversity and enhancing food and nutrition security. The book makes a case for repositioning African universities as fulcrums of development in society. It shares the rich experiences, learnings and scientific findings of diverse researchers, practitioners and students who have been working towards achieving this reality on the ground.

This multidisciplinary book holds appeal for university leaders, higher education, agrifood and development specialists, researchers and practitioners, policymakers and development agencies engaged in African agriculture and rural development, higher education and sustainable growth.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Anthony Egeru, Patrick Okori and Megan Lindow

PART I Lessons and voices from the CARPs

1 Designing for relevance: a new orientation for research

Anthony Egeru, Megan Lindow and Patrick Okori

2 Building value chain innovation platforms with communities

Megan Lindow, Anthony Egeru and Kay Muir Leresche

3 Universities fit for purpose

Megan Lindow, Anthony Egeru and Kay Muir Leresche

4 Learning in motion

Megan Lindow, Anthony Egeru and Kay Muir Leresche

5 Change agents, ripple effects, wider impacts

Megan Lindow, Anthony Egeru and Kay Muir Leresche

6 Facilitating a student and community-centred, experiential approach to research and innovation

Nancy Mungai, Duncan Ongeng, Patience Mshenga and Megan Lindow

PART II The specific impacts of each of the fifteen Community Action Research Platform projects implemented 2016-2022

7 Enhancing agribusiness rice clusters and market linkages for food security and incomes in northern Uganda

Basil Mugonola, Apollo Kasharu, Jimmy Lamo and Daniel Ogwang

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

Vallantino Emongor, Bamphiti Tiroesele and Onkgolotse Moatshe-Mashiqa

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

Festus Annor-Frempong

10 Empowerment and poverty reduction in rural coastal Kenya through the cassava value chain

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

11 Unlocking opportunities in the cassava CARP value chain project in Nakuru County, Kenya

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

12 Seed potato production in Nakuru, Kenya: outcomes and implications of an active multi-stakeholder platform

Anthony Mwangi Kibe, Mariam Mwangi and Agnes Oywaya Nkurumwa

13 Inclusion of farmer communities in value chain development: a case of potato in South-western Uganda

Johnny Mugisha, Peter Wasswa, Napoleon Heri Bahati-Kajunju and Abel Atukwase

14 Enhancing pig production and marketing for smallholder farmers in northern Uganda

Elly Kurobuza Ndyomugyenyi, Tony Aliro and Walter Odongo

15 Building competitiveness for communal farmers through developing the wool value chain in the Free State Province of South Africa

Jan W. Swanepoel

16 Climate-smart agriculture: improving dryland crop yields and value addition through university-community partnership in Zimbabwe

Ronald Mandumbu, George Nyamadzawo, Wadzanayi Innocent Nyakudya, Agathar Kamota and Friday N. M. Kubiku

17 Enhancing community adaptation through climate-resilient agriculture: Encroacher bushes value chains initiative in Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia

Simon Angombe, Cecil Togarepi, John Mupangwa and Hikevali Ndinomuwa

18 The empowerment of women and youth: enhancing climate-smart productivity of vegetables and key livestock value chains, Sudan

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

19 Strengthening the beekeeping value chain in Western Kordofan State, Sudan

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

20 Improvement of indigenous coping strategies in famine-stricken Darfur, Sudan

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

21 Scaling up African baobab food products valuation through enhancement of their safety and value chains for food and nutritional security in Benin, West-Africa

Achille E. Assogbadjo, A. Hounkpevi, K. V. Salako, Flora J. Chadare, R. Idohou, Rodrigue C. Gbedomon and R. Glele Kakai

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