Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Bunda College of Agriculture in 2004

The Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) is a university outside Lilongwe, Malawi. It was formed in 2011 by a merger between Bunda College of Agriculture of the University of Malawi and Natural Resources College (NRC).[1]

The university was established by the Malawian National Assembly in 2011, and had its first intake of students as a new organization in 2012.[1] In addition to the Bunda campus right outside Lilongwe, it has satellite centers in Lilongwe City, Blantyre and Mzuzu for Open and Distance Learning. As of 2017, the university had a student body of 8000 to 8500.[2]

It has four faculties: Faculty of Agriculture (founded in 1967), Faculty of Natural Resources (2001), Faculty of Development Studies (2004), and Faculty of Food and Human Sciences (2013).[3] Ph.D. programmes are operated in collaboration with the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM).[1][4]

Bunda Farm, which was part of Bunda College and an economic negative for the college, became a limited company in 2005.[4] In 2017, Bunda Farm Ltd. started a service station with fuel pumps at the campus in order to generate income to the university as well as to train students in business management.[2][5]

In December 2017, student protests over frequent power outages at the Bunda campus ended in property damages and an arrest of 46 students.[6][7] The campus was closed for some time.[8] The Malawi Human Rights Commission that investigated the death of a student found that some students had been subject to torture or inhumane treatment by the police, but did not find the police responsible for the student's death.[9]

The Bunda Journal of Agriculture, Environmental Science and Technology was resurrected in 2004.[10][11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Pauline Kaude (13 March 2015) Malawi launches Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources Malawi News Agency/Nyasa Times. Retrieved 7 March 2018
  2. 1 2 Pauline Atim (13 November 2017) Visit to Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) Ruforum.org. Retrieved 7 March 2018
  3. ↑ FACULTIES AT LUANAR (Archive) LUANAR. Retrieved 13 February 2018
  4. 1 2 Ramji Nyirenda and Arne Tostensen (2009) Building Capacity for Development and Food Security in Malawi. Mid-Term Review of the Bunda College Capacity Building Programme (BCDP) Norads samlede rapporter. 18/2009. Retrieved 13 March 2018
  5. ↑ Bunda Filling Station to fuel development at LUANAR Nyasa Times, 31 March 2017
  6. ↑ Sam Chunga (8 December 2017) 46 Luanar students arrested over power blackout protest The Nation. Retrieved 30 March 2018
  7. ↑ "46 LUANAR students arrested over blackouts demo". The Marabi Post. 9 December 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  8. ↑ Lilongwe University closes Bunda Campus indefinitely over electricity protests Nyasa Times, 14 December 2017
  9. ↑ Faith Kamtambe (7 January 2018) Malawi Human Rights Commission recommends second postmortem on bunda student The Daily Times Retrieved 13 March 2018
  10. ↑ CMI REPORT Norwegian Support to Bunda College of Agriculture - Phase II An Evaluation p. 13. CMI. Brage.bibsys.no. Retrieved 13 March 2018
  11. ↑ Journals and Subjects TEEAL at Cornell University (Archive). Retrieved 13 March 2018

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