University Engagement with Farming Communities in Africa : : Community Action Research Platforms.

• Superior document: Earthscan Food and Agriculture Series
• Author: Egeru, Anthony.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lindow, Megan.; Muir Leresche, Kay.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; Ã2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (329 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Lessons and Voices from the CARPs -- 1 Designing for Relevance: A New Orientation for Research -- 2 Building Value Chain Innovation Platforms with Communities -- 3 Universities Fit for Purpose -- 4 Learning in Motion -- 5 Change Agents, Ripple Effects, wider Impacts -- 6 Facilitating a Student and Community-centred, Experiential Approach to Research and Innovation -- Part II: The Specific Impacts of each of the Fifteen Community Action Research Platform Projects Implemented 2016-2022 -- 7 Enhancing Agribusiness rice Clusters and Market Linkages for food Security and Incomes in Northern Uganda -- 8 Enhancing Safflower Production and Product Development for Food Security and Improving incomes of Small-scale Farmers in Botswana -- 9 Sustainable Commercial Pineapple value Chain system for Increased yield and Income, and Improved Livelihood of Smallholder Farmers in Central Region, Ghana -- 10 Empowerment and Poverty Reduction in Rural Coastal Kenya through the Cassava Value Chain -- 11 Unlocking Opportunities in the Cassava CARP value Chain Project in Nakuru County, Kenya -- 12 Seed Potato production in Nakuru, Kenya: Outcomes and Implications of an Active Multi-stakeholder Platform -- 13 Inclusion of Farmer Communities in value Chain Development: A Case of Potato in South-western Uganda -- 14 Enhancing pig Production and Marketing for Smallholder Farmers in Northern Uganda -- 15 Building Competitiveness for Communal Farmers through Developing the Wool Value Chain in the Free State Province of South Africa -- 16 Climate-smart Agriculture: Improving Dryland crop Yields and value Addition through University-Community Partnership in Zimbabwe.

17 Enhancing Community Adaptation through Climate-resilient Agriculture: Encroacher Bushes value Chains Initiative in Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia -- 18 The Empowerment of Women and Youth: Enhancing Climate-smart Productivity of Vegetables and Key livestock Value Vhains, Sudan -- 19 Strengthening the beekeeping Value chain in Western Kordofan State, Sudan -- 20 Improvement of Indigenous Coping Strategies in Famine-stricken Darfur, Sudan -- 21 Scaling up African baobab food Products Valuation through Enhancement of their Safety and Value Chains for food and Nutritional Security in Benin, West-Africa -- Afterword: Growing from Competitive Projects to Collaborative Research Programmes -- Index.