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Doctoral training to support sustainable soil geochemistry research in Africa

Muneta G. Manzeke‐Kangara, I. S. Ligowe, B. Kaninga, Patson C. Nalivata, V. H. Kabambe, Emmanuel Mbewe, Benson H. Chishala, Godfrey M. Sakala, P. Mapfumo, F. Mtambanengwe, Takesure Tendayi, Amon Murwira, A. D. Chilimba, Felix Phiri, E. Louise Ander, Elizabeth H. Bailey, R. M. Lark, Kate Millar, Michael J. Watts, Scott D. Young, Martin R. Broadley

Interface Focus · 2024

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Summary

Africa's potential for scientific research is not yet being realized, for various reasons including a lack of researchers in many fields and insufficient funding. Strengthened research capacity through doctoral training programmes in higher education institutes (HEIs) in Africa, to include collaboration with national, regional and international research institutions, can facilitate self-reliant and sustainable research to support socio-economic development. In 2012, the Royal Society and the UK's Department for International Development (now the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) launched the Africa Capacity Building Initiative (ACBI) Doctoral Training Network which aimed to strengthen research capacity and training across sub-Saharan Africa. The ACBI supported 30 core PhD schol

Subject
Other / interdisciplinary
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1098/rsfs.2023.0058
Catalogue ID
SNmov5io1j-pg726n
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