Alumni Workshop - Kenya 2023

DAAD Agriculture-Alumni Network - Workshop

‘Tradition meets digitalisation – a new dream team for sustainable land use?’

Agriculture is one of East Africa's most important sectors, with about 80 percent of the population living in rural areas and depending on agriculture for their livelihoods. Promising innovations to address the current and future challenges in the sector are emerging across the agricultural landscape, showcasing the combination of indigenous knowledge, great science, technology and collective action towards a more sustainable future for crop and livestock production as well as nature conservation on the continent.

For these reasons, the DAAD Agriculture-Alumni Training Network is organizing a one-week workshop in Kenya. The theme for this year’s workshop is ‘Tradition meets digitalisation - a new dream team for sustainable land use?’.

This initiative will bring together German university alumni from East Africa for a 7-day travelling workshop in Kenya.

Time: 27th March – 2nd April 2023 - Kenya, Nairobi

The entire program will last from 27th March to 2nd April 2023. The traveling workshop will entail various stop overs along predetermined routes to allow participants engage with concrete examples of the integration of tradition and digitalisation in agriculture in Kenya and East Africa by extension. This will not only provide the alumni with the rare opportunity to learn more of the new paradigm shifts in agriculture but also strengthen their networks with both existing and new colleagues engaging in the agricultural sector.

Program highlights

Welcome workshop in Nairobi with partners and thematic key note contributions.
Travelling workshop with on-site visits and specialised seminars in Nairobi, Naivasha, Nakuru, and Narok.
Contributions of scientists and farmers addressing the complementarities and conflicts of traditional and indigenous approaches within the context of expanding digitalisation for sustainable land use and nature conservation in the region.
Structured Alumni exchanges and networking to explore current and emerging debates of relevance to sustainable land use, agricultural development and transitions in Africa.
Introduction of exchange opportunities and tools for German-African Alumni-Networks.