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Agriculture teaching skills in Higher Education Institutions: a reference manual
Agriculture is the major economic activity in East and Southern Africa (ESA). Millions of the region‟s inhabitants depend on farming to support their livelihoods, most at small scale level, farming less than 5 acres of land. Concerted efforts have been made to improve farm productivity and benefits to agricultural sector stakeholders. However, the full potential of the agricultural sector has not been realized due to myriad constraints that include degraded natural resource base, lack of microfinance, inadequate policy support, weak institutional capacity, among others. In addition to supplying adequate food, the sector is expected to generate employment opportunities while ensuring sustainable management of the environment. Higher education institutions are critical tothe success of efforts being made to sustainably increase productivity of the agricultural sector in ESA. To maximize benefits, the sector needs to be more competitive in global trade and markets. This goal can be achieved faster if better trained manpower is available. However, resource constraints have adversely affected the ability of higher education institutions in the region to offer high quality training and deliver the expected high quality manpower. There is therefore need to put in place interventions to strengthen the quality of teaching highly qualified human resources. Towards developing effective interventions to improve teaching skills, curriculum development and the engagement of management units in universities, the EDULINK Project FED/2013/320-148 facilitated the development of this reference handbook to be used as a resource by lecturers and instructors in higher education institutions. The materials have been contributed by instructors in universities in Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe withfurther input from project collaborators from Italy and Germany
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