Orientation Day at the Faculty of Agriculture

The Students Orientation Week was held on the 6 August 2013 at the RBLT. The Orientation Week offered first year students an apercu of University life to facilitate their integration on campus. The Vice Chancellor , Prof HCS Rughooputh, addressed the students through a video presentation. One of the key messages of the Vice Chancellor  is that professional excellence should be matched with excellence in other areas such as social, spiritual etc.The Ag Dean of Faculty, Mr Navin Boodia  in his speech introduced the Faculty and provided key information to students about the education system at the University. The President of Student Union and student representative on the Faculty Board also addressed the students. They both encouraged the students to integrate into University life and to make the most on their studies.The speeches of the Ag Dean and the Faculty Rep Mr Chocalingum are reproduced hereunder.

eResearch AFRICA 2013

“Fish-farming: The new driver of the blue economy”

 

The Brussels Briefing on the topic of “Fish-farming: The new driver of the blue economy” was held on 3rd of July, at the ACP Secretariat in Brussels.

 

More than 70 participants discussed successes and shared lessons from the field of fish-farming, by emphasizing its role for the growth of the blue-economies of the ACP countries.

The event consisted of two parts: the first provided an overview of the key concepts, existing systems, challenges and opportunities in aquaculture, especially for ACP countries, by addressing the main issues involved in the aquaculture sector, in terms of: food and nutrition security, health management, and sustainability; the second panel presented proven actions in fish-farming corresponding to the regions of Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific.

In case you have missed it, the video recording is available here. On this page you can find also the full programme of the event, and a background research paper.

 

Top Resources: Climate Smart Agriculture

 

The  Centre for Sustainable Development has shared adaptation and climate change resources in its July 2013  newsletter where you will find current, downloadable tools and documents on these and other themes:

• Comparative analysis of climate change vulnerability assessments of selected agro-ecological systems
• Enhancing Smallholder Farmer Participation in Markets
• Alternative Agricultural Markets for Improved Livelihoods
• Good Practice. Climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Guinea: farmers restore soil fertility with composted market waste
• Smallholder Farmers Perception of the Impacts of Climate Change on Rain Fed Agriculture
• Community Based Adaptation
• Climate Smart Agriculture
• Our Coming Food Crisis