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Date : 19-Sep-2010
Location :
The Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays
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Distinguished African Agricultural Economist Memorial Lecture Series
The first AAAE
distinguished African Agricultural Economist Lecture will be delivered
by Professor Francis S. Idachaba. Professor Idachaba is the
current President,
F. S.
Idachaba Foundation for Research and Scholarship and Vice
Chancellor Emeritus, Kogi State University, Anyigba, 2008 for life. He
enjoys decades of experience and leadership in agricultural policy,
intellectual dexterity, global standing and acclaim.
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The Me morial
Lecture series will be named after Professor Hezekiah Adedunmola
Oluwasanmi, (1919-1983). Prof. Oluwasanmi (pictured), a
path-breaking academic, administrator, government adviser and
visionary leader epitomized the total embodiment of a pioneer
trailblazer African agricultural economist: Harvard trained Ph.D
graduate in 1956 (just imagine an African being trained there at the
time), an erudite scholar, the top frontline agricultural policy
advisor to the then Government of the Western region of Nigeria, the
pioneering first African Professor of Agricultural Economics (not a
mean achievement, at a time when British/American lecturers and
professors dominated the universities across Africa and University of
Ibadan was Africa's top university at the time), the first African
agricultural economist to become a dean of Agriculture at the
University, the first African agricultural economist to be made a Vice
Chancellor, the first African agricultural economist to build a
university, an unsurpassed university administrator (many citations
call him "legendary") who built a world class university (University
of Ife) from scratch, enormous contributions to human capital
development by training and developing a whole new generation of
Nigerian scholars for PhDs in foreign universities and bringing them
back to the University where many became world class scientists in
their own right. He was well known and respected internationally and
was a trailblazer for agricultural economists in Africa. He served on
the Board of IDRC and several other international organizations and
African universities, including the Council of the University of
Ghana. He set up his own commercial farm (Oluwasanmi Farms), after he
retired as Vice Chancellor, and practiced what he taught and inspired
others to do.
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The AAAE/A.E.A.S.A 2010
Conference: A Conference With A Difference
In 2010 the African
Association for Agricultural Economists (AAAE) is
joining forces with the Agricultural Economics Association of South
Africa (A.E.A.S.A) to host an international
conference at the Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays.
The conference will take place from
19 to 23 September 2010.
As this joint
conference will form the biannual Conference of AAAE, and regular
annual conference of A.E.A.S.A, it is expected that between 300 and
400 delegates from Africa and around the world will attend the
Conference.
Even more importantly, due to the international nature of the
Conference it is expected that delegates will receive a unique
international exposure about the host city. It has already been
confirmed that the whole Executive Committee of the International
Association for Agricultural Economists (IAAE) will attend the
Conference and some of them will also be invited to present papers.
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Weather Index
Insurance Workshop
18th September
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Westin
Grand Arabella Quays Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa. |
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Sponsored by:
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
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Workshop Summary
The
Department of Economics, University of the Western Cape, in
collaboration with its international academic research partners and
with financial support from AGRA (Alliance for a Green Revolution
in Africa, Nairobi), is proud to announce a pre-conference
workshop that will be held alongside the AAAE (African
Association of Agricultural Economists). The workshop seeks
to gather researchers, practitioners, government policymakers,
insurers, bankers, agricultural producers, and representatives of
non-governmental organizations and share views and experience around
weather index insurance, its applicability and suitability as a
risk-assistance tool for millions of smallholder farmers in Africa.
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