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Agroecology Seminar

The effects of climate change, depleted soils, disease and pest infestation and missing support are key challenges for smallholder farmers in East Africa. Awareness that a profound transformation of food systems is needed to solve these problems is also growing in many African countries. For this transformation to succeed, “change makers” are needed.

Since 2009, Biovision has therefore been supporting university agricultural seminars on agroecology in East Africa. They enable students from different disciplines to gain a more holistic, systemic view on environmental, agricultural and nutritional issues. While the venue and implementing university vary, all courses achieve the same effect: graduates know the challenges and opportunities of sustainable agriculture from theory and practice, understand interrelationships in food systems and take this experience with them on their professional careers.

For example, in the International Training Course on Organic Agriculture (ITCOA), 50 students from East African universities receive an in-depth insight into the diverse potentials of smallholder organic agriculture in a two-month intensive course that spans several countries. Building on the theoretical examination of ecological approaches, the students put their knowledge into practice within the framework of participatory investigations and field placements. In addition, the “Agroecology and Agrobiodiversity Training Course”, which emerged from ITCOA, could take place in Kenya for the first time in 2021.

As part of a study in cooperation with GIZ, Biovision is investigating in 2022 which training formats similar to ITCOA or AATC already exist in African countries and how they can be better promoted.

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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Overview
Project country:
Kenya
Tanzania
Uganda
Participants:
Smallholder farmers
Students
Teaching staff
Project Officer:
Fabian Kohler
Project phase:
since 2009
Partner organizations:

Makere University, Uganda

Uganda Martyrs University, Uganda

University of Nairobi, Kenya

Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania

The project addresses the following SDGs from UN Agenda 2030:

This project is supported by SDC.

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Diramu Guyo, kenianische Studentin, steht in einem Feld und lächelt in die Kamera.
"The course made me even more aware of how important sustainable thinking is in agriculture."
Diramu Guyo, Participant of the agroecology seminar AATC 2021, Kenya

To support this project or get further information, please contact

Sharon Nehrenheim
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+41 44 512 58 13
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Around
students in East Africa have participated in seminars

East African countries have already conducted seminars
Around
members of East African universities and research institutes are involved in the project

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