Strengthening agricultural education and training in Sub-Saharan Africa from an innovation systems perspective: case studies of Ethiopia and Mozambique
2007
K. Davis | J. Ekboir | W. Mekasha
This paper examines the role of post-secondary agricultural education and training (AET) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on the context of the region’s agricultural innovation systems, it explores how AET can contribute to development. The authors present a framework to analyse the function of AET in strengthening innovative capabilities. <br /><br />The authors argue that the development of capabilities to innovate requires useful and efficient networks. However in Ethiopia and Mozambique, there are few effective linkages between agricultural research, extension input supply services, and agricultural education. They find that innovation networks in both countries revolve around traditional links, and non-traditional links where innovation is most likely to occur are few and far between. <br /><br />A number of policy changes are recommended with the following objectives realign the visions and mandates of AET organizations with national development aspirations emphasise interventions which further develop the innovative capabilities of the region’s human capital base facilitate the flow of information and technology by developing capabilities to access, imitate and adapt existing material through setting up networks induce change in organisational cultures, behaviour, and practices in the long term. <br />
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