At the November 2010 Ministerial Conference on Higher Education in Agriculture in Africa in Kampala, Uganda, the participating ministers called for the development of an Africa-led strategy for reform of and investment in Tertiary Agricultural Education (TAE) in order to transform African TAE into an engine of rapid, equitable growth and poverty reduction. In response to this call, an array of African TAE leaders together with development partners began working through the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) to conceive new strategies and mechanisms to generate more focused and informed attention to TAE.  

Substantial progress has been made since the ´Kampala Process` began a year ago.  A working group has been established to consider how best to support the development of an African agenda for TAE; this group has met a number of times in person and via conference calls.  In addition, a formal mechanism is now in the process of being established to determine and articulate the preferred modalities, processes, and approaches through which support for strengthening TAE in Africa might be structured and implemented. This mechanism is tentatively referred to as the Tertiary Education for Agriculture Mechanism (TEAM-Africa).