​On Tuesday 18th February 2020, SUA Management visited Farm For the Future (FFF) headquaters at Ilula, Kilolo District, Iringa. The Principal of College of Agriculture joined the SUA team under leadership of Vice Chancellor Prof Raphael Chibunda. The SUA team was composed of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) Prof Peter Gillah; Director of Postgraduate studeis Research Technology transfer and Consultancy Prof. Esron Karimuribo; Head of Department of Soil and Geological Sciences Dr Nyambilila Amuri;...

On Tuesday 11th February 2020, the Project Manager and Chairperson of the Iringa based Farm For the Future (FFF) Mr Osmund Ueland visited SUA Model Training Farm's Main gate and Magadu sections. He was accompanied by Farm Manager Ms Grace Kimonge and Mr Dickson Deodatus. earlier the FFF team, met SUA management under the Vice Chancellor Prof Raphael Chibunda in the main campus. The two parties vowed to forge ahead collaborations in various areas of crop and animal production....

Mastercard Foundation has partnered with the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity BuildingMastercard Foundation has partnered with the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Buildingin Agriculture (RUFORUM; www.ruforum.org), a network of 125 universities in 38 African countriesto Transform African Agricultural Universities (TAGDev) to meaningfully contribute to Africa’sgrowth and development. The aim of the partnership is to transform African agriculturaluniversities and their graduates...

Theme: “Reducing Post-harvest losses for enhanced Food Security and Export Trade” Sub-themes: Private sector participation, policy and business enabling environment in PHM Mycotoxins in agriculture, food safety and export trade ICT, Science, technology and innovation in postharvest management Youth and women in post-harvest management Introduction In recent years, global food production has reached a record high. However, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Bank...

A new project titled Insect Service and Biodiversity in Agroecological Farming (ISeBAF) has been launched. This is collaboration between the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA), Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) and Bioengineering at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). The main objectives of this project are to describe relationships between cucurbit crop production and insect biodiversity socio-economic analysis on...