Umfundi ofundela iziqu zobukotela Ubamba Iqhaza Kuhlelo Lokuqala Loqeqeshwa i-ETH Zürich

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UMnu Simon Gwara, ofundela iziqu zobukotela kwi-Agricultural Economics futhi ose-UKZN Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Research and Development (WASH R&D) Centre ungomunye wabafundi abane bamazwe ngamazwe be-PhD abaqokelwe ukubamba iqhaza ohlelweni lokuqeqeshwa oluqhutshwa yi-ETH Zürich’s Development arm (ETH4D).

Ucwaningo lukaGwara lwe-PhD, oluhlolwayo kumanje, luphenya ngokwamukeleka komphakathi kanye nokwenzeka kwemakethe yabantu kanye nokusimama kokusetshenziswa kabusha kwendle yabantu kuchungechunge lwenani lokudla kwezolimo, futhi kuholele ekushicilelweni kwezihloko ezintathu ezibuyekezwe ngontanga ezinemibhalo yesandla emibili ebuyekezwayo .

Ejoyina uMnu Jacktone Akelo wase-Kenya, uMnu Parwiz Mosamim wase-Italy, noMnu Prosper Takam Ngakou waseCameroon, uGwara uzochitha izinyanga ezintathu e-ETH Zürich e-Switzerland, ngaphansi kwe-Sustainable Agroecosystems Group (SAE) eholwa nguSolwazi Johan Six athole ukululekwa kwezobuchwepheshe uDkt Stephan Pfister e-ETH Zürich’s Ecological Systems Design Lab, uDkt Benabderrazik Kenza noDkt Ben Wilde e-SAE ekuhloleni ukusimama kusetshenziswa izindlela zesayensi yomjikelezo wokuphila.

UGwara umenyiwe futhi ngumfundisi oyisivakashi e-ETH Zürich’s Agroecosystems Without Borders Masters class eholwa i-Kenza and Wilde, lapho ezonikeza ukuqonda okujulile ngemisebenzi ye-Rural-Urban Nexus: Establishing a Nutrient Loop to Improve City Region Food System Resilience (RUNRES) iphrojekthi yaseNingizimu Afrika. Uhlola futhi nokusebenzisana ne-Switzerland’s Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FibBL). 

Zingama-25 kuNdasa, uGwara uthule inkulumo ngokwamukelwa komphakathi komanyolo osuselwa ku-bio (njengengxenye ye-PhD) e-ETH Zurich’s FertiCycle project ehambisana nezinye izikhulumi ezimbili, u-Anne-Kristin Loes wase-Norwegian Centre for Organic Agriculture e-Norway no-Brian Jacobsen wase University of Copenhagen.

Uyingxenye yethimba likazwelonke lokuthuthwa kwendle ehlinzeka ngosizo lwezobuchwepheshe ekudwebeni uhlaka lukazwelonke owezokuthuthwa kwendle kanye nesu leminyaka eyishumi lokulawula udaka lwendle eNingizimu Afrika. Sethule umsebenzi we-RUNRES ezingqungqutheleni nasemihlanganweni kazwelonke.

UGwara uthole uhlelo lokuqeqehwa lwakwa-ETH4D ngaba ka-RUNRES project and Six at ETH Zürich e-ETH Zürich nethimba lakhe. I-RUNRES project ixhaswe i-Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation’s Global Programme Food Security, eholwa i-Six ngokubambisana noDkt Alfred Odindo e-UKZN, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Bukavu e-Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) neKigali e-Rwanda, ne-Arba Minch University yase-Ethiopia. Ihlose ukusungula umnotho oyindilinga wezinhlelo zokudla zesifunda sasemadolobheni eziqinile eNingizimu Afrika, eEthiopia, e-DRC nase-Rwanda.

Kuzo zonke izindawo zasemakhaya nasemadolobheni e-DRC, Rwanda, Ethiopia naseNiningizimu Afrika, abacwaningi be-RUNRES basungula izinkundla ezizogxile kwizisombululo, imingxa ehlukahlukene yobuciko nabahlanganyeli abavela esikhungweni semfundo ephakeme ,umkhakha ozimele, uhulumeni kanye nemiphakathi.

Ithimba lephrojekthi eNingizimu Afrika, ididiyelwe yi-UKZN, kuhlanganisa abacwaningi abavela ku-WASH R&D Centre, i-Discipline of Development Studies kanye ne-African Cities of the Future Research Flagship, kanye nezithunywa ezivela kumasipala easeMsunduzi.

Ungowokudabuka ezweni lase-Zimbabwe nalapho aphothula khona iziqu zemastazi kwi-Bachelor of Science, ezifundweni ze-Agricultural Economics, uGwara waqala ukusebenza ngocwaningo ngesikhathi esasebenza njenge-graduate research associate kwa-socioeconomics e-International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), waqhubeka wayosebenza e-International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics kande aqhubeke nezifundo zakhe eNyuvesi yaKwaZulu Natali, exhaswe ngezimali yi-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation nokuwusizo aluthola nge-WASH R&D Centre.

Amagama: ngu-Christine Cuénod

Isithombe: Sithunyelwe