Enhancing human resources and organizational capacity of higher education institutions to catalyze innovations in agriculture and rural development
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2017
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African Journal of Rural Development (AFJRD)
Abstract
This Issue of the African Journal of Rural Development (Volume 2, Issue 4) comprises ten
articles featuring six broad themes. The themes include human capital development and
associated innovative models for training and learning at higher education institutions in
Africa; niche markets for smallholder farmers and end-users; dietary diversification for better
nutrition; optimizing cropping systems; compensation for customary properties to facilitate
public good; and, perception of target legatees on the delivery of agricultural extension
services. These themes represent contemporary issues in the rural development context
for which research solutions and innovations are needed which once taken to scale have
potential to bring about change in communities. All the articles are authored by universitybased
research teams and the recommendations there-in are an indication of the contribution
of higher education institutions to desired development targets at global and national levels.
The key messages in this collection are (a) the need for promoting innovative models in
postgraduate training and research that promote through use of heutagogy, a reflective
learning approach that will facilitate the production of well-prepared graduates to handle
the complexities of agricultural and rural development contexts; and, (b) beyond training
human capital, higher education institutions play a critical role in generating solutions that
have potential to accelerate uptake of innovations in agriculture and rural development for
the betterment of livelihoods to promote experiential learning as a means of training labour
market-ready graduates, universities should ensures a blended approach with respect to
pedagogical, andragogical and heutagogical approaches to teaching for life-long learning.
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Andragogy, Heutagogy, Human capital development, Pedagogy
Citation
Nampala, M. P. 2017. Enhancing human resources and organizational capacity of higher education institutions to catalyze innovations in agriculture and rural development. African Journal of Rural Development 2 (4): 467-471.