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RESEARCH LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP
The Future Africa Research Leadership Fellowship (FAR-LeaF) is an early career research fellowship program focused on developing transdisciplinary research and leadership skills.
Research | Do Economic Factors and Financial Behaviour Influence Financial Literacy Performance Among Rural Women in Uganda?
Lack of economic opportunities and good financial behaviour among women in rural areas are still far-reaching problems. Financial...
Jan 31, 2023
LPG versus dirty fuel use in Ghana
Hundreds of millions of people living in sub-Saharan Africa still use polluting cooking fuels. A recent survey across 33 countries in...
Jan 22, 2023
Research | Digital Technology Use, Mode of Saving, Disposable Income and Saving Among Household Heads in Rural Areas of Uganda
Savings can be one of the channels to fight poverty among people living in rural areas. Saving is an important macroeconomic variable...
Dec 31, 2022
Research | Determinants of Financial Literacy Levels Among Rural Women in Uganda
The findings provide a rich understanding of factors associated with financial literacy levels among rural women in the Luweero district...
Dec 31, 2022
South Africa | Women's earnings and domestic work among couples in Ghana
6th IZA/World Bank/NJD/ UNU-WIDER Jobs and Development Conference: The challenge of creating better jobs in developing countries , 14-15...
Dec 15, 2022
USA | An Open and Fully Decentralised Platform for Safe Food Traceability
9th Annual Conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence ( CSCI'22 ), 12-14 December 2022, Las Vegas, USA Concerns...
Dec 14, 2022
Italy | A place in the prestigious OWSD programme
The OWSD funding will add more weather stations for climate data collection and link the project with industry for sustainability. Dr...
Dec 13, 2022
International publications on waste management
Early career researchers need to collaborate with people within and outside of their discipline; this will provide enough platforms for...
Dec 13, 2022
South Africa | African Early Career Researchers @UP
AECRM 2022 African Early Career Researchers Meeting, 5 December 2022 | University of Pretoria, South Africa The devices will...
Dec 8, 2022
Research | Safe food traceability
The platform leverages the blockchain’s immutability, transparency, smart contracts, and consensus algorithms, to make it ideal for food...
Nov 16, 2022
Best Researcher-Award at University of Ghana
Dr Ebenezer F. Amankwaa was named Best Overall Researcher at the University of Ghana’s 5th International Conference of the College of...
Nov 8, 2022
Tailored malaria adaptation strategies for the Okavango Delta
If we identify social vulnerabilities, the Ministry of Health and Wellness in Botswana can develop health interventions and health...
Nov 8, 2022
Peter Berck’s best discussion paper award 2022
I see this award as a recognition of the research effort and a job well done. It is a validation and an endorsement of a researcher's...
Oct 24, 2022
Nutrition for all: Food security in Malawi
Food insecurity is a multifaceted problem that can adversely affect human well-being, including child and maternal health, the quality of...
Oct 19, 2022
South Africa | Child resilience on the streets of Harare
Emergent Researcher Resilience Lab at the Centre for Resilience Studies, Faculty of Education, 5 October 2022 | University of Pretoria,...
Oct 10, 2022
Developing a computerised adaptive test for evaluating students’ mental well-being post-Covid-19
Dr Jumoke Oladele recently had the opportunity to share her research at the 2022 International Associates of Computerised Adaptive...
Oct 10, 2022
Networking | Emergent Researcher Resilience Lab
PASAE 2022 4th Pan African Society of Agricultural Engineers International Conference in Kumasi, Ghana, 5 October 2022 Dr Emmanuel...
Oct 10, 2022
Research | Mechanical impact evaluation of natural fibres with LDPE plastic composites: Waste management in perspective
This study shows that short animal hair fibres could be effectively used to reinforced LDPE, and therefore suggest an alternative waste...
Oct 7, 2022
Nanotechnology for energy efficiency
Non-renewable energy sources like fossil fuels are non-sustainable and associated with the emission of greenhouse gasses – a dominant...
Oct 5, 2022
Research | Geospatial-based analysis for soil erosion susceptibility evaluation: application of a hybrid decision model
Erosion hazard is a major environmental change in developing countries and therefore necessitates investigations for effective erosion...
Oct 5, 2022
The programme seeks to build a network of emerging African scientists with the skills needed to apply transformative research methods and approaches in addressing complex sustainability challenges in Africa, including inter- and transdisciplinarity, systems thinking, and futures literacy.
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