RENEWING AFRICAN AGRICULTURE Technological Opportunities and Institutional Innovation Calestous Juma Calestous_Juma@Harvard.Edu Belfer Center for Science.
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RENEWINGAFRICAN AGRICULTURETechnological Opportunities and
Institutional Innovation
Calestous JumaCalestous_Juma@Harvard.Edu
Belfer Center for Science and International AffairsKennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Des Moines, IowaOctober 18, 2006
Technology in Iowa
“Senator George O’Malley stated in his closing remarks for the bill that he and his family had used the white margarine for years and he was tired of having to mix it to make it yellow. Then he reported that his health was perfect, pointed to his big stock of gray hair and noted that he was 6 foot three inches tall! Finally, he reminded the Senate that he and his wife were the parents of ten children. The Senate passed the bill the next day.”
The Borlaug legacy
Technological changeInstitutional innovationEnvironmental management
Learning to develop
Development as a learning processInfrastructure as the foundationTechnical knowledge as the fuelBusiness as the locus of growthGovernment as a facilitator
Technological masteryUse of existing knowledgeStrategic alliancesGenerating new knowledgeKnowledge-based institutions
AFRICAN PANEL ON BIOTECHNOLOGY
Taking risks
Responding to challenges
Mecca: June 20, 1511
Muhtasib Khair-Beg
Convened the ulema
Outlawing reprehensible meetings
Banning coffee
Ignorant asses
“Your physicians are asses. Our lawyers and physicians in Cairo are better informed. They recommend the use of Coffee, and I declare that no faithful will lose heaven because he drinks coffee.”
Supplanting wine
Belinghi, 17th century Italian poet: “… this seditious disturber of the world,
Has, by its unparalleled virtue,
Supplanted all wines from this blessed day.”
Satan’s drink
Pope Clement VIII, 1600:
“Why, this Satan’s drink is so delicious … it would be a pity to have the infidels have exclusive use of it. We shall fool Satan by baptizing it and making it a truly Christian beverage.”
MandateTo provide the AU and NEPAD with independent and strategic advice on developments biotechnology and its implications for agriculture, health and the environment.
It will focus on intra-regional and international issues of regulating the development and application of genetic modification and its products.
Strategic considerations
Formulating long-term biotechnology missions
Promoting regional cooperation
Strengthening local capabilitiesCritical role of universities
Commercialization: technology prospecting
Regulation: balanced regulation
Building international partnerships
Improving policy and implementation
INSTITUTIONAL REFORM: EARTH UNIVERSITY, COSTA
RICA
The mission of EARTH: To be a leader in university education, committed
to the formation of ‘agents of change’ with strong ethical and human values, social and environmental consciousness, and an entrepreneurial mentality, who are committed to serving others.
To be innovative and critical in the generation of knowledge which promotes the well being of the Earth's inhabitants and the development of the communities of the humid tropics.
To promote the interchange, analysis, synthesis and dissemination of knowledge and skills which will lead to improvements in the quality of life in the humid tropic region.
ELEMENTS THE EARTH MODEL
Work experience
Entrepreneurial development
Social and community interaction
Internship
Graduation research project
WORK WORK
EXPERIENCEEXPERIENCE
WORK WORK
EXPERIENCEEXPERIENCE
ENTREPRENEURIAL ENTREPRENEURIAL
DEVELOPMENTDEVELOPMENT
ENTREPRENEURIAL ENTREPRENEURIAL
DEVELOPMENTDEVELOPMENT
GRADUATION GRADUATION RESEARCH RESEARCH PROJECTPROJECT
GRADUATION GRADUATION RESEARCH RESEARCH PROJECTPROJECT
Innovations in universitiesIncremental changes
Rwanda, Zambia, South Africa, Ghana
Novel transformationsUniversities in community development
Universities as sources of entrepreneurs
Universities as business incubators
Businesses as university incubators
Managing changePolicy context: vision, urgency, executive leadershipCurriculum: entrepreneurialPedagogy: experientialStudents: leadership and change agentsLocation: problem-basedFunding: incentives, linkagesGovernance: autonomy
RENEWINGAFRICAN AGRICULTURETechnological Opportunities and
Institutional Innovation
Calestous JumaCalestous_Juma@Harvard.Edu
Belfer Center for Science and International AffairsKennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Des Moines, IowaOctober 18, 2006
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