Sasakawa Africa Association training workshop on Learning Management System in Faculty of Agriculture, Bayero University, Kano partnerships

From November 29th to December 1st 2021, Sasakawa Africa Association organized a training workshop on Learning Management System (LMS)   for lecturers from Faculty of Agriculture in Bayero University, Kano.  The partnership between Bayero University, Kano and Sasakawa Africa Association dated back to 2007 when the BSc degree programme was introduced to the university to equip agricultural extension officers in technology transfer and innovation systems, solve farming communities’ problems with the main goal of improving the livelihoods of the farmers and other value chain actors.

Participants at the training workshop

This training workshop and the deployment of Learning Management system is predicated on the new Sasakawa Africa Association strategic plan, where mainstreaming of e-extension in agricultural extension training and operations as well as scaling up technologies through digital transformation is a major goal. The deployment of Learning Management System enables the enrollment of trainees for the BSc degree programme, farmers and other value chain actors for release of Short Message Services (SMS), images, podcasts, & videos for extension advisory services. The LMS is expected to improve general enrollment, improve female enrolment and prevent disruptions to training and advisory services during periods such as pandemic and insecurity.

The lecturers who participated in the training, will after the training cascade and step-down training and agricultural advisory services through telephone-based enrollment to about non-metropolitan Local Government Areas with millions of farmers farming households and other value chain actors around Bayero University, Kano.

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SAA for close to four decades has been supporting small-scale farmers and other value-chain actors along the value chain through enhancing national agricultural extension system and building capacity of mid-career extension staff with 29 partner universities and agricultural colleges in 11 Africa countries.