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The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) has launched the hybrid version of the Collaborative Master of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics (CMAAE) and Shared Facility for Specialization and Electives (SFSE) at the University of Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. The event was officiated by  Prof. Dominique Njinkeu, the AERC Interim Executive Director, and it took place on Monday, October 2, 2023.

The hybrid phase, combining both online and face-to-face delivery modalities, began on October 2 and will end on November 30, 2023, with the physical component that brings together 65 CMAAE students and nine lecturers being hosted by the University of Pretoria, while all other students in the seven network universities – Haramaya (Ethiopia), Makerere (Uganda), Egerton and Nairobi (Kenya), Sokoine (Tanzania), Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR-Malawi), and Zimbabwe, participate online from their home countries. This follows the fully online phase for all students which ran from August 1 to September 27, 2023.

The speakers from the University of Pretoria were Prof. Vinesh Maharaj, the Deputy Dean, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences; Prof. Edilegnaw Wale Zegeye, the Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development; and Dr. Selma Karuaihe, the 2023 CMAAE SFSE Coordinator at UP.

The launch, which was conducted both online and physically at University of Pretoria, was attended by 14 visiting and resident lecturers and 131 students from the CMAAE network universities representing 17 African nationalities.