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“A strategic mind-set shift for African Youth engagement in Agriculture Education” a thougth piece by Dr. Stephen Onakuse

09th February 2022
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Agrinatura News

We are pleased to share with you the thought piece authored by Dr Stephen Onakuse, President of Agrinatura, titled “A strategic mind-set shift for African Youth engagement in Agriculture Education” published by Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) linked to the RUFORUM Triennal conference.

On 6th to 10th December 2021 Agrinatura attended online (due to the COVID-19 restirction) the Seventh African Higher Education Week and RUFORUM Triennial Conference 2021 this year held in Cotonou, Benin. Agrinatura was invited to attend number of meetings. President Stephen Onakuse was invited to give a speech at the Symposium: Global Partnership for Higher Education in Africa. In his speech he presented Agrinatura, highlighted the long lasting partnership between the two organisations. Further the close collaboration with DG-INTPA and commitement of our partners in ARD was mentioned.

“Ruforum and Agrinatura visions are ladders that will make it easier to for us all to climb, grab and attain enhanced academia and policy partnership for transformative institutional leadership, skills development for future generations.” he stated.

Agrinatura also attended the LEAP4FNSSA Side-event. During the General Assembly President Stephen Onakuse presented his Statement on the Development partnership and future of the AU-EU collaboration.

This is the thirteenth issue in the series of articles was released as part of the RUFORUM Triennial Thought Pieces.

You can access all the Triennial thought pieces on this Link. Your feedback and contribution to the thought pieces will be very much appreciated.

Dr. Onakuse’s Thought Piece