Professionals for Agricultural Entrepreneurship
Business Minds Africa is a consortium of 11 knowledge and educational institutes and aims to:
Deliver competent, confident agri-business professionals wanted in the East African job market
Professionals for Agricultural Entrepreneurship
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Needs assessment
Generate knowledge from practice
Relevant high quality training materials
Competency based education
Objective:
Bridge the gap between the capacity of graduates and the demand of the agricultural business practice
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Professionals for Agricultural Entrepreneurship
Generate knowledge from
agri-business practice
Produce high quality training materials and
programs
Asses capacity needs from agri-
business practice
Competence based
education of ‘Business
Minds’
‘Business Minds’ improve
agricultural business practice
International exchange
Agri-business knowledge cycle
Professionals for Agricultural Entrepreneurship
Activities:
• Asses the need for change in education programs to respond to the needs of the East African job market
• Document East African derived knowledge on agricultural entrepreneurship through write workshops with practitioners
• Develop new educational products and programs for competence based learning on Agricultural entrepreneurship
• Develop the web-environment (resource base) for effective publishing and sharing of resources
• Publish an on-line series of African Agri-Business development cases
Professionals for Agricultural Entrepreneurship
Vision
East African institutes of higher education will become THE centers of excellence in the field of knowledge for African agri-business
Create a critical mass of lecturers who are experts in local knowledge generation and communication
Ultimately an improved capacity of agri-business operators in Eastern Africa, resulting in a globally competitive, sustainable and
equitable agricultural sector
Professionals for Agricultural Entrepreneurship
ISAE Institute of Higher Education in Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Ruhengeri, Rwanda (www.isae.ac.rw)
IIRR International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Regional Center for Africa, Nairobi, Kenya (www.iirr.org).
JKUAT Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya (www.jkuat.ac.ke)
KU Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya (www.ac.co.ke)
MU Makarere University, Kampala, Uganda (www.mak.ac.ug)
MMU Mountains of the Moon University, Fort Portal, Uganda (www.mmu.ac.ug)
RUFORUM Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture, Kampala, Uganda (www.ruforum.org)
KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (www.kit.nl).
SUA Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania (www.suanet.ac.tz)
KIM Kenya Institute of Management, Nairobi, Kenya (www.kim.ac.ke)
WUR-VHL Van Hall Larenstein, University of Applied Sciences, Wageningen, The Netherlands (www.vanhall-larenstein.com)
Professionals for Agricultural Entrepreneurship
Links to APF Kenya:
• Review and publish cases in on-line series of agri-business cases
• Document action learning process on-going cases of agri-business development through students
• Address capacity gaps identified by APF Kenya in graduate and mid-career training programs
Professionals for Agricultural Entrepreneurship
African Agricultural Business Development Cases
An accessible on-line series of peer reviewed case studies
ObjectiveMake available local experiences on Agricultural Business Development
Target groupsAfrican scholars, faculty, entrepreneurs and development practitioners
Background materialAdditional data and materials can be added
CriteriaDemonstrative valueCritical reflection and lessons learnedValue for competence based learningInnovative characterRecent experienceReadability
Guide to authorsSee CALL FOR CASESExample case