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SUMMARY:Bridging innovation\, green transition\, and digital transformation in Africa: Emerging issues for structural change
DESCRIPTION:Innovation is recognised as key for driving new development pathways that address socio-economic challenges\, including the intersection of today’s megatrends: the climate transition\, digital revolution\, and demographics shifts. In Africa\, a key question remains: How can innovation become transformative in the face of these overlapping challenges and opportunities? \nThis seminar will discuss how African countries can leverage innovation not only as a technological change and upgrade\, but as a vehicle for sustainable industrial development and structural change. Bridging insights from innovation studies and industrial development and policy\, the seminar aims to offer new perspectives on how to harness Africa’s ‘innovation’ for sustained structural transformation and inclusive prosperity of the continent. \nKeynote Speaker \nElvis Korku Avenyo is an Associate Professor at the DSI/NRF South African Research Chair in Industrial Development (SARChI Industrial Development) at the University of Johannesburg (UJ)\, South Africa and a Research Fellow at the United Nations University (UNU)-MERIT. Before joining SARChI Industrial Development\, Elvis was a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Competition\, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) at UJ and a Research Officer on the Inclusive Digital Model (IDMODEL) Project at the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD)\, Oxford Department of International Development (ODID)\, University of Oxford. He was also a Global Excellence and Stature (GES) Fellow\, and Open AIR’s Queen Elizabeth’s Scholar (QES) at the South African Research Chair in Industrial Development Unit\, University of Johannesburg. He researches broadly on development economics with interests in industrial development\, innovation\, technical change\, labour markets\, firm behaviour\, with a focus on developing countries. He has published in reputable academic journals such as World Development\, Technovation\, Applied Energy\, Research Policy\, European Journal of Development Research\, Journal of Evolutionary Economics\, and South African Journal of Economics. He has worked and co-authored background papers for several international organisations including the International Labour Organization (ILO-Geneva)\, African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET)\, United Nations Educational\, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)\, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and United Nations Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Elvis obtained his Ph.D. in Economics of Innovation\, Policy Studies of Technical Change and Governance from the UNU-MERIT/Maastricht University\, The Netherlands. \nLink to website: https://sites.google.com/view/elvis-korku-avenyo/home \n\n\nHow to register \n\n\nIf you are interested in attending the webinar\, please register via this link or get in touch with Yvonne Gitu at Y.Gitu@acts-net.org for more details. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email from AfricaLics Zoom account containing information about joining the webinar. Please ensure you add the invitation to your calendar.
URL:https://africalics.org/event/bridging-innovation-green-transition-and-digital-transformation-in-africa-emerging-issues-for-structural-change/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom\, Kenya
CATEGORIES:Virtual Events,Webinar Series
ORGANIZER;CN="AfricaLics Secretariat":MAILTO:secretariat@africalics.org
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SUMMARY:AfricaLics webinar & official launch of the innovating resilience: Advancing inclusive agricultural innovation for climate resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa’ Research Coordination Area (RCA)
DESCRIPTION:Date: 24th July 2025 || Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm EAT \nInnovative Approaches to Inclusive Agricultural Technologies for Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa \nAbstract \nThis webinar will explore how inclusive agricultural innovation can enhance climate resilience\, reduce rural poverty\, and promote sustainable development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The speaker will draw on his extensive research and experience in agricultural economics to expound promising approaches such as digital tools\, index insurance\, and social protection linkages that support smallholder farmers and marginalized communities in Africa. The discussion will highlight actionable strategies for ensuring that technological advancements in agriculture are accessible\, equitable\, and scalable in the face of growing climate challenges. \nThe webinar will also serve as the official launch for the ‘Innovating Resilience: Advancing Inclusive Agricultural Innovation for Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa’ Research Coordination Area (RCA). This RCA seeks to advance conversations around inclusive agricultural innovations for climate resilience in sub-Sahara Africa with particular emphasis on gender\, inequalities and promoting the production of underutilized and indigenous crops through agrobiodiversity\, using agricultural innovation systems approach. This RCA aligns with the AfricaLics agenda\, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the African Union Agenda 2063 by contributing to knowledge production and dissemination in the field of Innovation and Development (I&D)\, build (strengthen) research capacity and collaboration among scholars\, and providing data and evidence to inform policy decisions on the continent. \nKeynote Speaker \n\n \nProf. Michael R. Carter is a distinguished professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California\, Davis and honorary professor of economics at the University of Cape Town. Carter is director of the RIF and former director of the MRR Innovation Lab. Author of numerous scientific publications\, Carter’s current research projects examine poverty dynamics and productive social safety nets\, evaluation of interventions to boost small farm uptake of improved technologies\, and feature a suite of projects that design\, pilot and evaluate index insurance contracts as mechanisms to alleviate chronic poverty and deepen agricultural and rural financial markets. Carter is an elected fellow of NBER (the National Bureau of Economic Research)\, BREAD (Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development) and the American Agricultural Economics Association. He has conducted several projects across Africa. \nModerator (RCA Lead) \n\n \nDr. Mercy F Salami (Senior Lecturer\, Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management\, Faculty of Agriculture\, University of Ilorin\, Ilorin\, Nigeria). Her main area of research has been in Development Economics. Under this major research area\, she focuses more on issues of gender\, climate change\, land economics and governance\, poverty\, food security\, and nutrition and\, impact assessment\, with a special focus on Nigeria. \n  \n  \n  \nRCA team members \n\nOther team members supporting the RCA include; \n\n\n\n\nProf. Opeyemi E. Ayinde (Professor of Agricultural Economics and Vice-president of the African Association of Agricultural Economists\, Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management\, Faculty of Agriculture\, University of Ilorin);\n\n\n\nDr. Caleb Adelowo (Deputy director of research at the Technology Innovation and Enterprise Studies Department of the National Centre for Technology Management\, Obafemi Awolowo University\, Nigeria);\n\n\n\nRosalyne N. N. Baddoo (Project Manager for ECo-Inveg\, a USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Horticulture Project\, implemented by the Postharvest Innovation Hub\, Department of Crop Science\, University of Ghana)\n\n\n\nAnn Numi (Research fellow at the African Centre for Technology Studies\, ACTS\, Science Technology\, Innovation & Knowledge and Society (STIKS) Programme & Visiting Research Associate at the SARChI-Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation (TRCTI )\, University of Johannesburg).\n\n\n\nHow to register \n\nIf you are interested in attending the webinar\, please register via this link or get in touch with Yvonne Gitu at Y.Gitu@acts-net.org for more details. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email from AfricaLics Zoom account containing information about joining the webinar. Please ensure you add the invitation to your calendar.
URL:https://africalics.org/event/africalics-webinar-official-launch-of-the-innovating-resilience-advancing-inclusive-agricultural-innovation-for-climate-resilience-in-sub-saharan-africa-rca/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom\, Kenya
CATEGORIES:Virtual Events,Webinar Series
ORGANIZER;CN="AfricaLics Secretariat":MAILTO:secretariat@africalics.org
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