Dr. Richard Alward, who spent about 6 moths at CREATES, NM-AIST, between 2019 and 2020, donated a drone worth more than 11,000 USD to CREATES for research activities in March 2020. The drone has a high resolution multispectral camera for vegetation assessment and will help students assessing wildlife and habitat properties in cultivated and protected […]

The Data Driven Innovation (DDI) Incubation Centre is a newly established Incubation Centre in the Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) Region. The Centre is hosted by the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) based in Arusha Tanzania through the African Centre for Research, Agricultural Advancement, Teaching Excellence and Sustainability (CREATES) which is based […]

AFRICAN WOMEN IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (AWARD) is a career development program initiated in 2008, to strengthen and sharpen the research and leadership skills of African women in agricultural science. It is aimed at further empowering them to contribute more effectively to accelerating agricultural gains in Africa. AWARD fellows benefit from a two-year fellowship […]

The Nelson Mandela Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) through CREATES, was honored to host the 10th International Conference of the African Material and Research Society (AMRS) from December 8th – 13th, 2019.  Themed “African Materials for African Development”, the conference attracted 336 attendees from premier science and research institutions across four continents and 39 […]