African higher education actors gathered in Pretoria, South Africa from 28th to 29th September 2017 to discuss a strategy for the implementation of the Regional Program for Strengthening Higher Agricultural Education in Africa (SHAEA) project and to lay out the practical steps necessary for its implementation, including activities at the regional level. The two-day consultative meeting was jointly convened by the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), a network of 66 African universities and the South Africa’s National Research Foundation (NRF) and included representatives from the World Bank, African Union Commission (AUC), Inter University Council of East Africa (IUCEA), South Africa’s Agriculture Research Council (ARC), NUFFIC NESO South Africa, and Independent consultants in the area of higher education in Africa and African universities.

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