M.Sc. Scholarship Program Phd Computer Science in Soil Science,Uganda

AGRA is pleased to call for applications for 2011 grant under the program announced cellar health training. The program focuses on the potential of talent and leadership of young professionals who want to use the transform agriculture in Africa. Women are especially encouraged to apply.
The purpose of the program is to help build capacity for agricultural development by supporting the training of about 120 MSc and 50 PhD students in integrated soil fertility (GIFs) in nine universities in sub-Saharan Africa. Students from 13 countries AGRA-emphasis of the program are that: Tanzania, Mozambique, Ghana, Mali, Malawi, Rwanda, Zambia, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Niger.

The universities that will offer PhD training are:

• Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania – will take students from the eight East and Southern Africa region

• Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana – will offer PhD training to students from five countries in the West Africa region

The following 7 universities offer MSc training:

• Makerere University (Uganda)

• Kenyatta University (Kenya)

• Haramaya University (Ethiopia)

• Bunda College of Agriculture (Malawi)

• University of Zambia (Zambia)

• University of Nairobi (Kenya)

• Bobo-Dioulasso University (Burkina Faso)

The training programs also include strengthening the facilities at the universities (laboratories and teaching facilities including curriculum) so that they can offer the best training possible in Africa in soil health and produce a new generation of 21st century soil scientists and agronomists.

Scholarships deadline 31 Maret 2011

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