The Executive Director of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa Dr Yemi Akinbamijo today led a three-person delegation from FARA on a courtesy visit to HE Maria Elisa de Luna, Ambassador of Brazil to Ghana.
The FARA delegation spent the time with the Ambassador to bring the latter up to date on the status of implementation of the Agricultural Research and Innovation Fellowship for Africa (ARIFA) program. The ARIFA is currently supported by the TETFund of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as a unique modality for the pedagogic re-tooling of Nigerian universities in a bid to generate a new crop of enterprise-oriented postgraduate fellows.
It will be noted that ARIFA currently has about 60 fellows on their post-graduate studies in various agro-allied fields largely in the Universidade Federal de Vicosa and seven others across the Brazilian federation.The Executive Director, Dr Yemi Akinbamijo was accompanied by Dr Aggrey Agumya (Director of Research and Innovation) and Dr Abdulrazak Ibrahim (Ag Cluster Lead for Institutional Capacity and future scenarios).
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This innovation is one that is timely. Africa is birthing new breed of research oriented fellows that will contribute in the economic development not only in agriculture but in all other facets of endeavors.
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