Faculty of Food and Agriculture

About this Programme

This programme aims to provide further training to graduates of the relevant undergraduate programmes offered by the Faculty of Food and Agriculture during a twelve-month course of study as full-time students, or twenty-four (24) months as part time students, that will equip them to:
• become self-employed as entrepreneurs in their own right;
• provide employment for other individuals;
• apply their training to improving the domestic and regional food supply through the production of value added products that, in turn, will increase utilisation of primary agricultural products, provide more secure markets for farmers/primary producers by increasing the demand for raw material for processing, provide products to facilitate import substitution, provide products for export to earn foreign exchange, and ultimately, effect a reduction in the national and regional food import bill, while improving national and regional food and nutrition security.

Programme Breakdown

Entry Requirements

The general pre-requisite for entry into the MSc in Value Addition for Food and Nutrition Security is at least a Lower Second Class Honours BSc degree in Agriculture, Human Ecology, Agribusiness or the Biological Sciences (or equivalent qualifications and working experience).
It is expected that the support system for the MSc TCU will be applied to the replacement programme and that the same facilities will be utilised since the graduate courses are the same with effectively only one new course.