DDRN seminar series 2014

TID: Tirsdag den 6. november kl. 16.30-18.00

STED: Aalborg University, A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 København SV. Meeting point: Reception, ground floor.

DDRN seminar series 2014

TID: Tirsdag den 6. november kl. 16.30-18.00

STED: Aalborg University, A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 København SV. Meeting point: Reception, ground floor.

DDRN seminar series 2014

DDRN is launching an after-work seminar series to stimulate debate on how to enhance knowledge sharing and research collaboration between North-South-South and across disciplines. DDRN invites researchers, students, aid practitioners, private sector representatives, consultants and other stakeholders to participate.

Seminar 1: BSU Live

Research capacity building: PhD study visits to Denmark

– a report from the PhD students of the Roots and Tuber value chain project in Ghana

Program

16.30 – 16.35    Welcome by Thorkild Nielsen, Integrated Food Studies, Aalborg University Copenhagen

16.35 – 16.45    Main research questions in the South driven research project ‘Enhancement of Roots and Tuber value chains in Ghana’

by Arne Wangel, UNEP-DTU Partnership, Technical University of Denmark

16.45 – 17.10   Strengthening Root and Tuber Value Chains: Any hopes for the lesser known?

by PhD student Abena Boakye, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

17.10 – 17.35   Assessing the efficiency of the cassava and yam value chains in Ghana

by PhD student Gifty Boakye Appiah, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

17.35 – 17.55   Q & A and networking

17.55 – 18.00    Closing remarks by Lekunze Ransom Nambuanyi, Metropolitan University College, Vice Chairman of DDRN

The first event in the DDRN seminar series is presented under the heading BSU Live.  Drawing upon South voices, the objective is to present selected research capacity building components from the Building Stronger Universities Program phase 1 and 2 and from South and North driven development research projects.