The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), established by ten Vice Chancellors in 2004, is a consortium of universities in Africa. As of December 2025, membership stands at 175 universities in 40 countries. RUFORUM is registered as an International NGO (FORR78950) in Uganda and coordinated by a Secretariat hosted at Makerere University in Kampala. The organization evolved ...

For more than two decades, Micheline Inamahoro has contributed to strengthening agricultural systems in Burundi through her work at the Institut des Sciences Agronomiques du Burundi (ISABU), where her recent promotion to Head of Research signals not only a personal achievement, but a measurable maturation of national research capacity. Her career reflects a broader transition: how sustained and targeted investment ...

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