Welcome to the Agriculture OER Space, here you will find comprehensive set of resources on agriculture, specific to African higher education. We encourage African universities and relevant NGOs in Africa to submit and share content. We are also looking at assisting institutions interested in sharing content to clear necessary copyrights to make these resources avaialable as OERs.
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Perspectives of Agricultural Extension
The “Perspectives of Agricultural Extension” aims at providing AICM students with an understanding of the perspectives of agricultural extension.
Farm Milk Production, Marketing and Processing Activities in Kiruhura District: A Situational Report
The main purpose of the study was for AgShare team from Makerere University to share the agricultural skills and knowledge with Kiruhura farmers, and equip them with better milk handling and marketing skills through experience sharing and feedback meeting
Dairy Products Quality and Safety Module
This module equips the student with a broad knowledge of quality assurance and quality management related to the safety of milk products.
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Introduction to Microeconomics
This module is an introductory course that introduces students to a wide range of economic concepts. The module focuses on how economic systems operate to allocate resources, distribute income, and organize production through the decisions of individual economic agents such as households, firms and consumers. The module focuses on the operation of a market economy where markets determine society's production and consumption decisions by transmitting information about the plans of buyers and sellers.
Climate Smart Agriculture? Governing the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper examines the political economic and governance challenges faced by African governments in operationalizing Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) as part of their pursuit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is a need to enrich our understanding of the diverse contexts and ways in which governments will have to navigate and address the inevitable choices and conflicts, synergies and trade-offs that will characterize efforts to simultaneously implement these global goals.
Economic Shifts in Agricultural Production and Trade due to Climate Change
In addition to expanding agricultural land area and intensifying crop yields, increasing the global trade of agricultural products is one mechanism that humanity has adopted to meet the nutritional demands of a growing population. However, climate change will affect the distribution of agricultural production and, therefore, food supply and global markets.