By Eunice Shame Kafwamba Bridging the gap between science and policy has been one of the activities LEAD has achieved under the BRECcIA project through research dissemination workshops and the media. These have provided interface among community, local level staff and high level policy makers. Minister of Agriculture takes up …
By Chengxiu Li Cropland expansion has become a common strategy for boosting agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, cropland expansion is not a sustainable form of agricultural development due to the environmental concerns it raises and the limited arable land available. We do not have a comprehensive understanding of …
By Henry Hunga The Malawi 2020 policy Summer School was a success, and is now the second Summer School to have been held there. BRECcIA’s first Summer School was held in the second week of July 2019 in localities near Lilongwe, Malawi. The objective then was to train Early Career …
Analysis of gaps between policy-makers and community stakeholders in building climate change resilience in dry lands of Malawi: why do interventions fail? Considering the demand for research information to guide climate change resilience policies, BRECCIA researchers are investigating gaps that exist between policy-makers and community stakeholders on building climate change …
Driven by the need to improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), BRECcIA researchers are undertaking research to model crop yield and yield gap of maize in SSA and to further understand drivers of productivity gap under different socio-economic and biophysical environment contexts. Understanding the drivers of poor productivity will …
BRECcIA held its first Summer School in July in two villages in Malawi – Chinsamba and Chankhuntha – both close to Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. It brought together early career researchers (mainly PhD students and post-docs) from the wide range of disciplines and institutions within BRECcIA to provide experiential interdisciplinary training on …
Tendai Polite Chibarabada, WaterNet The BRECcIA Summer School was an unmeasurable experience that words cannot simply describe. For myself, it was the first time to meet all the team members which was really great to put faces to names. Malawi was the perfect location to conduct the Summer School in …
Henry Hunga The preparations towards the first Summer School started way back in January 2019. I had just joined the BRECcIA project team in Malawi and was still grasping the detail. This was like getting back into research after a considerable time in extension and outreach. Ideas kept floating on …
– Lessons learned from BRECcIA Summer School in Malawi Chengxiu Li, University of Southampton When the plane landed in Lilongwe airport at 12:20 on 7th July 2019, I was very excited but also nervous on my summer school journey organised by project BRECcIA from the University of Southampton and the …
The workshop was two weeks of thought-provoking presentations and discussions, it was so good to have time with everyone sharing ideas and working out the way forward together. It was a packed schedule but very interesting and we had time to bond as a team, which was really important since …
