Agricultural Value Chain

NO

Expected Output

Activities

 
 
 
 

1

Operational Innovative creativity laboratory equipped with computers; business analysis softwares (e.g Aspire; Nvivo); data management server and bank (SurveyCTO and Ecoinvent database) and conferencing facilities

Acquisition of lab equipment and softwares:

 

         - Softwares (Nvivo, Aspire, OpenLCA, SPSS, STATA)

 

         - data server and bank (SurveyCTO & Ecoinvent)

 

        - Video Conference facilities

 

Installation of the conference facilities

 

2 short-courses per year with min 10 people (including virtual comm)

 

2

The three  Post-graduate programs have started attracting sufficient numbers of students

Recuitment of PhD candidates internally, domestically and internationally

 

PhD courses delivery

 

        - Internships (list update, industrial matching exercise)

 

        - Monitoring and evaluation of the PhD courses

 

Pedagogical and teaching training (inkl. dissemination)

 

3

Six SUA-staff complete their PhD in Agricultural Value Chains, Agro-ecology and MSc in Aquaculture

Selection of candidates (two for AVC)

 

Selection of supervisors and supervision

 

Study stay in Denmark

 

4

Research teams involving researchers and postgraduate students have successfully implemented strategic pilot projects and produced results that feed into new research projects, research proposals and research-based teaching

Two research teams (senior, junior, PhDs, including Danish supervisor)  around a research theme of which the new PhD-position is an integral and important part

 

Defining the research themes and establishing of 2 research teams

 

Inception seminar

 

Implementation of 2 strategic pilot projects  (one for each team)

 

Identification and Develop 4 Research Proposals (2 per team)

 

Implement 2 research projects (one per team)

 

Conference participation for researchers and PhD students

 

5

 

Research teams have successfully identified and used new channels and mechanisms for outreach within and across the three thematic areas.

 

Tailor made (3-5 days) courses 2 times a year (e.g. standards, circular value chain for stakeholders) involving one DK researcher

 

Selection of topic and development of the tailor-made courses

 

Recruitment

 

Course delivery

 

*Annual stakeholder workshop/forum (e.g. specific crops, entrepreneurship and innovation) run by the 3 themes

 

Selection of topic and development of materials for the stakeholders conference

 

Recruitment of stakeholders

 

Stakeholders conference

 

 Survey for internship placements

 

 Sustaining agribusiness incubator

 

Agribusiness Forum/feedback meetings/