Project Description

The International Seminars in Agricultural and Rural Development project is designed to give increase the exposure of university students and staff in agricultural and rural development in Canada, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania to research being carried out in the respective countries. The project is a collaborative effort between the University of Guelph in Canada, the University of Ghana, the University of Nairobi in Kenya and Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania. The project is funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Canada.

Project Partners

Project Activities

The project is designed to allow students and staff at the participating institutions to view specially prepared research presentations and then to jointly discuss the presentations using web-based conferencing tools. Once the web-based technology has been mastered the plan is to open the project to other participants. In the meantime, abstracts, powerpoint presentations and video-recordings of each seminar will be available on this site. The first two seminars were given in July 2006 and the presentations are available on the seminars pages.