The importance of education to enable efficient technology development and/or borrowing

I really enjoyed Anne-Clare Hervy's recent post on  Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) reports covering human and institutional capacity strengthening. The first is focused on African higher education, looking at the challenges faced on the continent with recommendations for future investment. The second, is focused on long-term training in agriculture and how best to leverage individual training for institutional development.

Hervey helpfully lays out a brief history on higher education capacity building to date and discusses what has and has not been holistically effective.  The necessity for long-term training in agriculture to ensure existing best practices are implemented is clear and the APLU reports are an important step forward in how institutions can best provide thoughtful external assistance.