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FUTURE AFRICA
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.
The rights of the child in the digital environment
Children must use the digital environment to afford crucial opportunities for their voices to be heard in matters that affect them. Since...
Jun 16, 2023
Research | Community Participation in Water and Sanitation Service Delivery
Despite the taunted benefits associated with public participation in the water and sanitation sector, challenges still hinder the...
Jun 14, 2023
Child labour in Africa: Call to action
Many African countries have signed a memorandum of understanding with the ILO to launch a programme under the International Programme for...
Jun 12, 2023
Research | Society 5.0-Inspired Digitalization Framework for Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture
Abstract This research paper proposes a digitalization framework based on Society 5.0 principles for promoting resilient and sustainable...
May 26, 2023
MALAWI | Food security and water in Sub-Saharan Africa
Food security is a fundamental human right. Despite this, there are still over 800 million people around the world who need more food....
May 23, 2023
KENYA | Fish barcoding and functional ecological workshop
During a two-day symposium, participants shared their exciting research findings with topics ranging from environmental DNA (eDNA) in...
May 23, 2023
Research | Agricultural Social Networks: An Agricultural Value Chain-Based Digitalization Framework for an Inclusive Digital Economy
Abstract Sustainable agriculture is the backbone of food security systems and a driver of human well-being in global economic development...
May 23, 2023
Families in Africa: Demographic trends and families
Families are the bedrock of cultural traditions, norms and values, and behaviour patterns transmitted from generation to generation....
May 15, 2023
Leader of the Lab | Material Science Physics Lab open at Egerton University, Kenya
Egerton University | Main campus Njoro launched a new Material Science Physics Laboratory equipped with tools and resources worth...
May 11, 2023
France | Can Remote Sensing Precipitation Data Trusted to Capture Annual and Seasonality Trends?
International Conference on Climate Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience Building 19-21 April 2023, UNESCO | Paris, France Investigating...
Apr 19, 2023
Tri-alliance to support subsistence farming in Nigeria
Stakeholder engagement workshop hosted on 13 April 2023 at the Bayelsa State Secretariat. The principal goal of this research is to...
Apr 13, 2023
Research | Sustainability of drinking water and sanitation delivery systems in rural communities
Water and sanitation are core for the growth and development of communities. Yet, South African local municipalities are often unable to...
Apr 11, 2023
Strategic ways to improve climate services in Ghana
"I can create an innovative way of making integrated scientific and indigenous weather and climate forecasts accessible and user-friendly...
Apr 3, 2023
USA | COVID-19: Technology, Misinformation and Pseudoscience in Northern Nigeria
Technology, Culture, and African Societies, 22nd Annual Africa Conference University of Texas at Austin, 31 March-2 April 2023 The...
Apr 2, 2023
Return on education investments
“It is worth noting that leaders are not formally trained within higher education institutions in Cameroon but are expected to lead. They...
Mar 30, 2023
Research | Evaluating the challenges of public participation in local government planning
Public participation in formulating and implementing development plans is critical for social service delivery and deepening democracy in...
Mar 27, 2023
NIGERIA | Multidisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, and sustainability research: African languages and literature as tools for Africa's development
WORKSHOP | Multidisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability Research: African Languages and Literature as Tools for...
Mar 22, 2023
Outstanding performance on the NORHED II project
Dr Brighton Chunga of Mzuzu University in Malawi is also a key researcher for the NORHED II project implemented by Mzuzu University, the...
Mar 17, 2023
Towards securing water resources for sustainability
Population growth has increased the use of wood energy resulting in deforestation and environmental degradation, posing severe challenges...
Mar 17, 2023
ADAPT | Extreme heat in the classroom
On average, classrooms with poor ventilation measure temperatures of 5.8 °C higher than those with better ventilation. Roofing materials...
Mar 17, 2023
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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