The Modernizing African Food System Consortium (MAFS):  Aims to help African agricultural education and training (AET) institutions develop the technical skills and institutional capacity required to modernize African food systems.

Activities and Outputs:  Collaborative teams from four major agricultural universities have produced a series of empirical background studies that provide evidence necessary for informing capacity development efforts in African AET institutions. 

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Key Publications and Presentations:

• Partnerships for Capacity Development for Modernizing African Food Systems.
• Food System Dynamics in Africa: Anticipating and Adapting to Change
• Rise of the African Consumer Class

Journal Special Issue: The Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies (JADEE) called for original contributions for a special issue entitled “Modernizing Africa Food Systems: Implications for Agricultural Education and Training (AET) in Africa”.    View: Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies   (Volume 5, Issue 2 )

MAFS Seed Funding:  International Fund for Agricultural Development