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| Name: | Building African Scientific and Institutional Capacity (BASIC) |
| Initiating organisation | |
| Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa | |
| Description: | FARA´s programme 'Building African Scientific and Institutional Capacity (BASIC)' aims at strengthening the capacity to build the human capacity to implement, internalise new approaches to agricultural research for development and to implement development . BASIC's purpose is to raise the quality and relevance of African tertiary agricultural education to encompass the crosscutting issues that are pertinent to attaining sustainable and profitable agriculture and develop new cadres of professionals for national, regional and international agricultural science, extension, business and policy forums BASIC's approach is to establish a framework in which African universities can express their priority requirements and draw, as needed, on the pedagogical and subject matter expertise of leading academic institutions to build their scientific and institutional capacity in cutting-edge teaching and research methods and on the CGIAR centres to generate up-to-date and locally relevant training materials. |
| Activity: | training institution building |
| Targeted organisations: | CGIAR |
| Targeted educational levels: | students graduates |
| Last editing: | 2006-07-27 13:36:49 |