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AgriConnect Supports KNUST E-Learning Week 2024… Launches Agribusiness & Entrepreneurship Podcast and Two Masterclasses in Digital Literacy

The AgriConnect Team, Faculty of KNUST and the more than 100 students that attended the AgriConnect Session

The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) invited AgriConnect to participate in its E-Learning Week 2024. On Tuesday 9th July, the AgriConnect Team led two learning sessions under the theme “AgriConnect… digitally empowering our youth to lead the modernization of agriculture in Ghana’. 

AgriConnect took the opportunity to launch its 4-part podcast focused on Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship. This podcast forms part of the AgriConnect supplemental course on Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship. The Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship podcast is designed around the 4 modules of the course as follows:

AgriConnect has helped me a lot - Male Student

AgriConnect has helped me a lot. When I got to Level 400, I was wondering how I would get a laptop to do my project work. Because of the actual costs of laptops, it would not have been easy to for me to get one. Fortunately, AgriConnect popped up. When I heard about AgriConnect, I said, “wow, this is a big opportunity for me”. I also did not have access on how to use a laptop and internet etc. and the courses, I think my knowledge and work has improved. I have been using the laptop to do my project work and that has helped me a lot.

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AgriConnect Innovation and Difference

AgriConnect promises: 

  • That the technology deployed and the capacity built through the supplemental course content related to value chain development, digital literacy and entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector will drive the impact, scale and interest of youth, women, and differently-abled persons in the agriculture sector, and importantly bridge the digital divide. 

  • To address the urgent need to reduce the extent of labour under-utilisation among youth. 

  • To place focus on education and training to enable youth in agriculture to benefit from new and emerging opportunities in agriculture. The knowledge products that are being designed and disseminated through the devices will be innovative, culturally relevant, and fully aligned with the needs of the labour market and importantly capture the interest and imagination of youth in Ghana. 

  • That the activities and outputs of the Programme will in the near future support the modernization of the agriculture sector by boosting productivity and supporting the development of agribusiness, thereby creating the linkages between farms and plots and other economic activities such as manufacturing and agro-processing. 

  • To be innovative in its approach as the Programme is designed to bring scale and impact by allowing youth, women and differently-abled persons to align their educational qualifications in agribusiness, digital skills and value chain development with dignified and meaningful jobs that will allow them to maximise the potential of their entrepreneurial spirits towards improved and sustainable livelihoods. 

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