UniBRAIN

UniBRAIN UniBRAIN is the Universities, Business and Research in Agricultural INnovation programme.

It is promoting agricultural innovation and improving tertiary agribusiness education in Africa The concept of UniBRAIN was catalysed by the realisation, by the Africa Commission, that Africa does not have sufficient endogenous capacity for agricultural innovation. The new thinking and novel technologies produced by universities and agricultural research institutions were not having the impact tha

t they should have because they were not being taken up and disseminated sufficiently by private enterprise. The lack of sufficient innovative entrepreneurs was attributed to the very restricted contact between university faculty and businesses that results in a misfit between the type of graduates that the universities are producing and the industry's requirements. UniBRAIN is designed to catalyse and advance African agricultural innovation by bringing these three parties together in joint agribusiness innovation incubation consortia.

African Agribusiness Incubation Conference And ExpoPlace: Kenyatta International Convention Center (KICC), Nairobi, Keny...
17/07/2015

African Agribusiness Incubation Conference And Expo
Place: Kenyatta International Convention Center (KICC), Nairobi, Kenya
Date: 28th-30th September, 2015
Theme: Catalyzing the sustainable transformation of Africa’s agriculture through Agribusiness Incubation: towards job and wealth creation, food security and poverty reduction.

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Incubating agribusiness-incubators through advancing entrepreneurial talent, networking, integrating science and technology for job and wealth creation in Africa.

11/03/2013

Africa Agriculture Science Week 2013

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01/03/2012
The Need for Educated People to take Up Farming
01/03/2012

The Need for Educated People to take Up Farming

12/12/2011
Sustaining life through innovation
08/12/2011

Sustaining life through innovation

15/11/2011

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Representatives of AgBIT consortium together with UniBRAIN staff visited the Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZAR...
11/11/2011

Representatives of AgBIT consortium together with UniBRAIN staff visited the Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI). They were taken to the tree crops nursery section to inspect some innovative seedlings such as pineapple orange grafted on rough lemon, pineapple grafted on rough lemon, etc.These are innovative products and will be good for uptake by the UniBRAIN programme

A photo of pineapple orange grafted on rough lemon
11/11/2011

A photo of pineapple orange grafted on rough lemon

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