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. More

The Memorial 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. Read more

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. More