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APPSA Lesotho Celebrates Women In Science and Leadership.

Lesotho Agricultural College [LAC] is committed to providing professional education and training, promoting research and community outreach, providing guidance on commercialized agriculture, through combining quality theory, practicals and research methodologies. The College strives to remain relevant, forward-thinking, industry-related in developing graduates who are thinkers and practitioners. The College programmes involve practicals and theoretical knowledge facilitated by highly skilled academic professionals by ensuring that students are well equipped to enter the world-of-work confidently upon graduation.

With this intent, through the Department of Crops [CPD], LAC is engaged in collaborative partnerships with other Government ministries and Departments, NGOs, and commercial farmers to create a platform for internship. Through this initiative, the CPD placed the first group of students of Diploma in Agriculture (General) and Diploma in Agriculture (Crop production) for an internship at the Department of Agricultural Research [DAR] and to thirty-two (32) farmers who are actively engaged in horticulture enterprises in Lesotho. These enterprises and farms were selected based on their accessibility to the students. The internship ran from the 27th June 2022 to 22nd July 2022.

TORS- Website Maintenance and upgrades of the core development platform - Drupal - CCARDESA Secretariat, Botswana.

TORS- Website Maintenance and upgrades of the core development platform - Drupal - CCARDESA Secretariat, Botswana.

Terms of Reference : Development of Information, Communication & Technilogy Based Knowldge Products in the SADC Region 

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) is the most consumed legume crop in the world, and one of the most consumed legume crops in Botswana. This study aims to identify constraints and opportunities in common beans production in order to enhance common bean production in the country

Study on Improving Existing Policies to Support Cross Border Trade in Agricultural Inputs and Commodities and National Trainings on Agricultural Innovation System Policy Practice Index in the SADC Region Inception Report

Regional Knowledge, Information & Data Capture Guidelines Regional Training Workshop Report:

SADC Futures: Developing Foresight Capacity for Climate Resilient Agricultural Development Final technical report

Policy makers at national level have been attempting to mainstream climate change into their agricultural policies to increase the agricultural industry’s resilience against climate change and variability. In the absence of a clear understanding of the status of inclusion of relevant climate STI in the SADC regional countries’ agricultural sector, mainstreaming climate change into the agricultural policies becomes difficult. The status report therefore presents an Agricultural Innovation System (AIS) conceptual framework. The AIS framework was used to develop an estimation methodology for tracking the status of inclusion of relevant climate STI in the SADC regional countries’ agricultural sector.