Month: December 2015

Luke’s recently appointed Executive Vice President, Dr. Johanna Buchert visited Kenya in early November 2015 in order to acquaint herself with the FoodAfrica Programme and the related Safe Food-Safe Dairy project. She was accompanied by FoodAfrica Director Professor Hannu Korhonen and Dr. Vesa Joutsjoki from Luke. Luke plans on taking a more active role in international cooperation, not only in Europe but also globally. Partnerships built in FoodAfrica and other …

Climate is changing the rules  

  Investment in research and human capacity building is proven as one of the best approaches for increasing agricultural production and reducing food insecurity. The FoodAfrica Programme has striven towards these objectives for almost four years. We may conclude that the Programme has managed to achieve tangible results in most of its activities. However, more efforts are needed for completing the on-going capacity building aspirations and dissemination of research outputs. …

In early November rural women in Uganda were involved in qualitative interviews discussing decision making in the households. Women have a very central role in the farming households, but their possibility to influence decision making varies greatly. We travelled to the district of Kiboga in Uganda to conduct some qualitative interviews with twelve women from the sample. The goal was to get a deeper understanding of household decision-making and what …

In October the African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE) organized a training on communicating research results to users of knowledge. Important user groups can be found at all levels – from the field to the policy making table. For more than a year I was involved in the planning of ANAFE’s training andwas more than happy to be part of the team when the training was …