The GRG provides two-year grants awarded to the Principal Investigator (an individual senior lecturer of a member university) to support agricultural action research and the training of MSc students normally supporting a cohort of under-graduate students as research assistants. It is a requirement in response to a call for the Dean of Faculty to send in project proposals developed by a senior faculty member. Each GRG is expected to include a small team to supervise the students implementing the project. These teams are encouraged to be inter-disciplinary and/or multi-agency with at least one member from a different Department or outside agency.

The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture with support from the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases have funded eight Graduate Research Grants (GRG) aimed at building the capability of graduate and post-graduate level students in Africa to conduct applied research on agricultural greenhouse gases. Each GRA-GRG supports a Principal Investigator (an individual senior lecturer of a RUFORUM member university) and two Masters Students to undertake research and training on topics related to the measurement and management of greenhouse gas emissions and removals in ruminant farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa over a two-year period.