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
- Associazione Sindacale Titolari di Farmacie
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