Opportunities for strengthening uni brain through gabi

SVCDC - KenyaIDPA - UgandaCURAD - UgandaCAF - MaliAgBIT - Zambia CCLEARr - Ghana

Ralph von KaufmannUniBRAIN Facility Coordinator

Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa

Opportunities for strengthening

UniBRAIN through GABI

NIABI 2112 Roundtable on Strengthening GABI, 2012 

 1130-1300 hrs February 7, 2012, New Delhi, India

Opportunities for strengthening UniBRAIN through GABI

Rationale: UniBRAIN is an emerging network

UniBRAIN Strengths: could GABI benefit from them

UniBRAIN Weaknesses: could GABI strengthen them

UniBRAIN Opportunities: could GABI help UniBRAIN realise them

UniBRAIN Threats: could GABI help shield UniBRAIN

Take home messages

CONTENT

Opportunities for strengthening UniBRAIN through GABI

Rationale: UniBRAIN is an emerging network

UniBRAIN CAF

UniBRAIN CCLEAr

UniBRAIN AgBIT

Uni

BRAIN

SVCDCUni

BRAIN

ABP

Uni

BRAIN

CURAD

Rationale: UniBRAIN is an emerging network

Opportunities for strengthening UniBRAIN through GABI

Opportunities for strengthening UniBRAIN through GABI

AN EMERGING AFRICAN AGRIBUSINES INCUBATOR NETWORKUniBRAIN agribusiness incubators

The Consortium for enhancing University Responsiveness to Agribusiness Development (UniBRAIN-CURAD) focusing on plantation cash crops Specific value chain: Coffee

The Incubation and Diversification of Banana Products for Agribusiness (UniBRAIN-ABP or Afri Banana) focusing on staple food and cash crops Specific value chain: Banana

The Sorghum Value Chain Development Consortium (UniBRAIN-SVCDC) focusing on smallholder dry land food grains Specific value chain: Sorghum

The Creating Competitive Livestock-bias Entrepreneurs in Agribusiness (UniBRAIN-CCLEAr) focusing on Smallholder livestock Specific value chain: Livestock

The Innovative Centre for Agro-forestry (UniBRAIN-CAF) focusing on agro-forestry products Specific value chains: non-timber forestry products, cereals and fruits

The Agri-Business Incubation Trust (UniBRAIN-AgBIT) focusing on tropical fruit Specific value chain: Mango

Opportunities for strengthening UniBRAIN through GABI

UniBRAIN strengths: could GABI benefit from them

Opportunities for strengthening UniBRAIN through GABI

UniBRAIN Weaknesses: could GABI strengthen them

Opportunities for strengthening UniBRAIN through GABI

UniBRAIN Opportunities: could GABI help UniBRAIN realise them

Opportunities for strengthening UniBRAIN through GABI

UniBRAIN Threats: could GABI help shield UniBRAIN

Opportunities for strengthening UniBRAIN through GABI

Rationale: UniBRAIN is an emerging network

UniBRAIN Strengths: could GABI benefit from them

UniBRAIN Weaknesses: could GABI strengthen them

UniBRAIN Opportunities: could GABI help UniBRAIN realise them

UniBRAIN Threats: could GABI help shield UniBRAIN

Take home messages

Take home messages

UniBRAIN a new gateway into African agribusiness

Wide scale investment in agribusiness and agro-industry in Africa is presently constrained by:

• Human and institutional capacity deficits

i.e., Not enough entrepreneurs and problem solvers

• Lack of leadership in identifying and exploiting socially responsible opportunities for investment in agriculture and the environment

UniBRAIN’s development objective is:

• to contribute to enabling African countries to create jobs and raise incomes through sustainable agribusiness development.

UniBRAIN’s Immediate Objective, which is also its value proposition, is:

• to enable universities, business and agricultural research institutions to commercialise agricultural technologies and produce graduates with entrepreneurial and business skills through agribusiness incubator partnerships.

RATIONALE

Impact pathways:

UniBRAIN

Strengthening university-

private sector linkages

Knowledge-based socio-

economic growth thro’

business incubation

Harnessing youthful vigor to spur growth

in agro-food sector

UniBRAIN a new gateway into African agribusiness

UniBRAIN a new gateway into African agribusiness

UniBRAIN is coordinated by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)

The university aspects are facilitated by the African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education (ANAFE)

The agribusiness aspects are facilitated by the Pan African Agribusiness and Agro-industry Consortium (PanAAC)

The agribusiness incubator management aspects are facilitated by the Agribusiness Incubation Programme ICRISAT (ABI-ICRISAT)

The agricultural research aspects are facilitated by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the Sub-Regional Organisations: ASARECA for Eastern Africa, CORAF/WECARD for West Africa, CCARDESA for Southern Africa

The UniBRAIN partners

UniBRAIN a new gateway into African agribusinessr

The UniBRAIN partners (cont.)

• The Sub-Regional Organisations (SROs)

• Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)

• West and Central African council for agricultural research and development (CORAF/WECARD)

• Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development in Southern Africa (CCARDESA)

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UniBRAIN a new gateway into African agribusiness

The roles of the Partners:

UniBRAIN

FARA

ANAFE

PanACC

ABI-ICRISAT

Danida

SROs

Funding agencyRoyal

Danish Ministry of

Affairs

Overall coordinationForum for Agricultural Research in

Africa Facilitating university

participationAfrican Network for Agriculture,

Agroforestry and Natural Resources

Education

Facilitating private sector

participationPanAfrican

Agribusiness and Agroindustry Consortium

Agribusiness Incubator Programme of the International Crops Research Institute for the

Semi Arid Tropics

Facilitating agricultural research participation

Sub Regional Organisations

UniBRAIN a new gateway into African agribusiness

For more information visit:

www.fara-africa.org/our projects/unibrain

THANK YOU