The Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) has continued to prepare talented farmers in the fishing and fish farming sector in the country until the end of the FoodLAND project, to help develop the economy of individuals and the nation as a whole. Speaking at the conclusion of the project, Senior Lecturer and Fish Farming and...Read More

The Annual Meeting of the Food and Local, Agriculture and Nutritional Diversity (FOODLAND) project funded by the European Union (2020-2025) is held at the National School of Agriculture (ENAM) in Meknes, Morocco about 238 km from Casablanca. FOODLAND seeks to develop, implement, and validate innovative, scalable, and sustainable technologies aimed at supporting the nutrition performance...Read More

Last November 2024, Ms. Christina Josephat, a master’s student from Department of Food Science and Agro-processing and Mr. Frank Thomas a master’s student from the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, whose research are partially funded by the FoodLAND Project had a privilege to be selected out of 1000 applications of Youth Ignite Student Founders...Read More

The Department of Informatics and Information Technology (DIIT), College of Natural and Applied Sciences (CONAS) at SUA, is delighted to celebrate the remarkable achievements of four of its staff members who have successfully secured funding for their innovative research projects under the Sokoine University of Agriculture Research and Innovation Support (SUARIS) grants. The SUARIS grants,...Read More

In a bold step toward bridging the gap between academia and agriculture, Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) yesterday (15th November 2024) launched the Agrispark Project, an initiative designed to empower farmers and shape the next generation of agricultural entrepreneurs and innovators in Tanzania. The inception meeting, held at the ACE-IPM Conference Hall on SUA’s Edward...Read More

Between 20th-21st September 2024, Dr. Joseph Telemala, from our Department of Informatics and Information Technology at SUA, had the opportunity to share ACHE Project with a global audience at the Lacuna Fund Grantees Convening in New York City. Representing the “Tanzania Climate-Sensitive Waterborne Diseases Dataset for Predictive Machine Learning” project — ACHE Project, Dr. Telemala...Read More

The Department of Information and Information Technology at the College of Natural and Applied Science, Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), hosted an exciting event: the presentation of research findings by students pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BIT) and a Bachelor of Information and Records Management (BIRM). This event, titled “Unveiling Insights through...Read More

Project Title: Mitigating Climate Change Through Quality-driven Management of Future Telecommunications using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Tanzania PI: Dr. Alcardo Alex Barakabitze Collaborator: Prof. Trung Q. Duong, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Dr Alcardo Alex Barakabitze from the Department of Informatics and Information Technology, CoNAS has been awarded the Distinguished International Associate (DIA) Award by the...Read More

Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) has trained about 20 smallholder farmers in Morogoro through the Integrated IoT, AI, and a Swahili Chatbot: Agri-Tech Solution (MkulimaGPT) Project, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The training focused on an Artificial Intelligence (AI) System that operates in Swahili and aims to provide farmers with...Read More

The AI4MORECROPS project held a workshop on “Enhancing Farm-scale Crop Yield Prediction Using Machine Learning Models for the Internet of Agro-Things in Tanzania.” The workshop, which served as a pivotal moment to update stakeholders on project activities and preliminary results, was held on November 20th, 2023. The project’s mission to integrate AI into agriculture crop...Read More