Lucy Kanu (2009 Commonwealth Professional Fellow, Agriculture, The Prince’s Trust) has been selected as the 2012 Grassroots Honoree of the Fairness Award. Lucy will receive a 2012 Fairness Award for her work as ‘a Nigerian social entrepreneur and innovator who has helped build innovative private-public partnerships to serve Nigeria’s underserved and under-represented communities’. She will be [...]
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Commonwealth Professional Fellow awarded 2012 Fairness Award
Posted on 25 September 2012.
Posted in News
Commonwealth Scholar receives award for wheat research
Posted on 14 June 2011.
Dr Ida Paul (Commonwealth Split-site Scholar from South Africa, PhD in Environmental Management, University of Pretoria and Durham University, 2003 – 2004) has been named as a 2011 Jeanie Borlaug Women in Triticum Award recipient, in recognition of her outreach work and her efforts in combatting wheat rust in South Africa. The award is presented [...]
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Split-site Scholar furthers understanding of agriculture and climate change
Posted on 26 April 2011.
Dr Nicholas Ozor, who held a split-site scholarship at the University of Reading, 2005 – 2006, is currently Project Co-ordinator on a number of projects that look at innovation in agriculture and the relation between agriculture and climate change. Universities, Business and Research in Agricultural Innovation, for the Danish International Development Agency, 2010-2014 Building Trans [...]
Cassava – adding value to rural farming systems
Posted on 25 April 2011.
Dr Kolawole Adebayo (Commonwealth Split-site Scholar, PhD in Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria and University of Reading, 2001 – 2002) works as Project Manager, Cassava: Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich. Cassava is a root crop and staple food across the developing world. [...]
Alumni based in the UK – May 2011
Posted on 22 April 2011.
StepUp4Christchurch.com – Earthquake Appeal A chance to join the charity stair climb and help those affected by New Zealand’s devastating earthquake at: “The Gherkin”, 30 St Mary Axe, London EC3A 8EP. The stair climb takes place on Sunday 22 May 2011, 10.00am-2.30pm (exactly 3 months after the devastating earthquake hit Christchurch) 1,037 steps 38 floors [...]
ACU scoping study – of interest to African alumni
Posted on 22 April 2011.
The ACU has been asked by AusAID to undertake a small scoping study to inform the development of the AusAID Research Strategy 2011-15 and Australia-Africa Research Partnerships Programme, which will sit underneath the strategy. The aim of the programme will be to assist African and Australian institutions to undertake high quality research in support of [...]
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