Business Minds Africa is a consortium of 11 knowledge and educational institutes and aims to:

1. Business Minds Africa is a consortium of 11 knowledge and educational institutes and aims to: Deliver competent, confident agri-business professionals wanted in the East African job market

2. Competency based education Relevant high quality training materials Generate knowledge from practice Needs assessment Objective: Bridge the gap between the capacity of graduates and the demand of the agricultural business practice ! ?

3. International exchange Agri-business knowledge cycle Generate knowledge from agri-business practice Asses capacity needs from agri-business practice Produce high quality training materials and programs ‘Business Minds’ improve agricultural business practice Competence based education of ‘Business Minds’

4. Activities: • Asses the need for change in education programs to respond to the needs of the East African job market • Document East African derived knowledge on agricultural entrepreneurship through write workshops with practitioners • Develop new educational products and programs for competence based learning on Agricultural entrepreneurship • Develop the web-environment (resource base) for effective publishing and sharing of resources • Publish an on-line series of African Agri-Business development cases

5. Vision East African institutes of higher education will become THE centers of excellence in the field of knowledge for African agri-business Create a critical mass of lecturers who are experts in local knowledge generation and communication Ultimately an improved capacity of agri-business operators in Eastern Africa, resulting in a globally competitive, sustainable and equitable agricultural sector

6. ISAE Institute of Higher Education in Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Ruhengeri, Rwanda (www.isae.ac.rw) • IIRR International Institute of Rural Reconstruction, Regional Center for Africa, Nairobi, Kenya (www.iirr.org). • JKUAT Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya (www.jkuat.ac.ke) • KU Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya (www.ac.co.ke) • MU Makarere University, Kampala, Uganda (www.mak.ac.ug) • MMU Mountains of the Moon University, Fort Portal, Uganda (www.mmu.ac.ug) • RUFORUM Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture, Kampala, Uganda (www.ruforum.org) • KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (www.kit.nl). • SUA Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania (www.suanet.ac.tz) • KIM Kenya Institute of Management, Nairobi, Kenya (www.kim.ac.ke) • WUR-VHL Van Hall Larenstein, University of Applied Sciences, Wageningen, The Netherlands (www.vanhall-larenstein.com)

7. Links to APF Kenya: • Review and publish cases in on-line series of agri-business cases • Document action learning process on-going cases of agri-business development through students • Address capacity gaps identified by APF Kenya in graduate and mid-career training programs

8. African Agricultural Business Development Cases An accessible on-line series of peer reviewed case studies ObjectiveMake available local experiences on Agricultural Business Development Target groupsAfrican scholars, faculty, entrepreneurs and development practitioners Background materialAdditional data and materials can be added CriteriaDemonstrative valueCritical reflection and lessons learnedValue for competence based learningInnovative characterRecent experienceReadability Guide to authorsSee CALL FOR CASESExample case