Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture

RUFORUM

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM) is an initiative by a consortium of 22 universities in East, Central and Southern Africa to develop and strengthen human resource capacity for inter-disciplinary problem-solving. It achieves its goal through grants programmes to support research and to address rural (agricultural) development issues, especially community and smallholder farmer needs.

MISSION

RUFORUM’s mission is to foster innovativeness and adaptive capacity of universities engaged in agricultural and rural development to develop and sustain high quality in training, innovative and impact oriented research, and collaboration.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Ministerial Conference on Higher Education in Africa, 23-27 February 2009: Register NOW. Visit the conference page for more details. You may also download the conference announcement here.
The RUFORUM secretatiat has new staff appointments. Click here to see our new appointments.