Maastricht School of Management (MSM) in collaboration with the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have organised Executive Management Workshop in Sustainable Agro-Technology at the Innovative Learning Centre. The Workshop funded by Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Cooperation (NUFFIC) and was themed” Incubation and Entrepreneurship Development in Agro-technology in West Africa” runs from 2nd to 12th October, 2017.
In all, twenty participants who are Alumni of MSM drawn from Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania attended the workshop. They would be taken through sustainability, technology innovation in the African agricultural sector with case studies from the continent, preparation of business plans, setting up small businesses, agro technologies in production and vegetable production.
Other topics will include Introduction to global economy, air trade, impact investment and value chain analysis.
In opening the workshop, Professor Richard Akromah, Provost of the CANR, stated that the ever increasing human population demands that we find innovative ways of producing food in more efficient ways, while maintaining the rich biodiversity of our world. He noted that agriculture is challenged by the changing climate and the competition for land for other uses such as new settlements, roads and other infrastructure and called for innovative ways of doing business on the land.
Professor Akromah hoped the two-week workshop will help refresh the minds of participants, share ideas and to help chart new ways to improve businesses in agricultural technologies.
Professor Diederik de Boer from MSM is the facilitator of the workshop.
