The Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organizational Development (CIKOD) has announced a strategic partnership with Dr. Hilla Limann Technical University (DHLTU) in Wa, Ghana, following the launch of Ghana’s first MSc Programme in Agroecology.
For more than a decade, CIKOD has played a leading role in promoting agroecology through field practice, scientific dialogue, policy engagement, and movement building. This new collaboration with DHLTU represents an important step towards strengthening agroecology education, research, and community-based innovation in Ghana and across West Africa.
Through the partnership, CIKOD’s operational communities and innovation centers will serve as living laboratories for agroecology. These spaces will support practice-based teaching, learning, and research, allowing students to connect academic knowledge with real farming systems, local communities, indigenous knowledge, and sustainable food practices.
The collaboration also contributes to broader initiatives aimed at transforming African food systems towards sustainability, including the My Food is African Campaign. In addition, the partnership will support the hosting and institutionalization of the Ghana Universities Movement for Agroecology (GUMA) at DHLTU, encouraging students to become active ambassadors for local food, African diets, and sustainable food system transformation.
By linking higher education, community experience, youth engagement, and agroecological practice, CIKOD and DHLTU are helping to nurture a new generation of agroecology leaders committed to sustainability, culture, resilience, and food sovereignty.
This initiative is fully aligned with the objectives of the AGRECOFARM project, which aims to strengthen agroecology education and build African universities as knowledge hubs for sustainable farming and food system transformation.