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Building Watershed Management Capacity in Nigeria: Expanding the Role of Agriculture Colleges
Developing countries face many critical social, agricultural, and natural resource‐related issues where watershed management plays a prominent role. Short‐term gains in productivity often occur at the expense of long term system resiliency needed to achieve sustainability. Post‐secondary (tertiary) education institutions are underfunded and hampered by bureaucratic inertia limiting their relevance toward addressing emerging water resources concerns. As populations urbanize, rural constituencies continue to lose influence. Using the case of Samaru College of Agriculture, part of Ahmadu Bello University in north‐central Nigeria, this paper identifies institutional challenges and suggests solutions to help similar institutions better address watershed management issues. Given current constraints, a watershed management curriculum could be built upon existing courses offered in related majors. Developing partnerships with an expanding private sector could help create opportunities for meaningful solutions to management issues and foster problem solving skills among students. Outside investment in increasing university capacity to address watershed education, including hiring staff focused on these issues, is justifiable given the humanitarian and security crises that have been afflicting northern Nigeria's vulnerable agricultural landscape.
Building Watershed Management Capacity in Nigeria: Expanding the Role of Agriculture Colleges
Developing countries face many critical social, agricultural, and natural resource‐related issues where watershed management plays a prominent role. Short‐term gains in productivity often occur at the expense of long term system resiliency needed to achieve sustainability. Post‐secondary (tertiary) education institutions are underfunded and hampered by bureaucratic inertia limiting their relevance toward addressing emerging water resources concerns. As populations urbanize, rural constituencies continue to lose influence. Using the case of Samaru College of Agriculture, part of Ahmadu Bello University in north‐central Nigeria, this paper identifies institutional challenges and suggests solutions to help similar institutions better address watershed management issues. Given current constraints, a watershed management curriculum could be built upon existing courses offered in related majors. Developing partnerships with an expanding private sector could help create opportunities for meaningful solutions to management issues and foster problem solving skills among students. Outside investment in increasing university capacity to address watershed education, including hiring staff focused on these issues, is justifiable given the humanitarian and security crises that have been afflicting northern Nigeria's vulnerable agricultural landscape.
Building Watershed Management Capacity in Nigeria: Expanding the Role of Agriculture Colleges
Groninger, John W. (author)
Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education ; 158 ; 78-84
2016-08-01
7 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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