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Agribusiness fails in the weeks after harvest: moisture, theft, side-selling, and a buyer who disappears when the world price moves. Climate shock makes those weeks shorter. This programme starts there. You will cost a warehouse, design a simple contract a smallholder can understand, and write a drought-contingency note a district cooperative can fund. African Future University centres rural enterprises because capital-city ESG slides hide the actual constraint set. You will treat traditional authorities, women’s groups, and informal traders as governance facts. English and French reporting is assessed because a donor logframe in one language and a co-op minute in another is how programmes go blind. The award is academic. It is not a statutory agronomist licence, not a UN consultancy, and not an engineering stamp. It is for managers who must keep grain and cash honest when the feeder road is mud. You will compare a grain-surplus season with a drought year using the same co-op’s books, including women’s unpaid labour as a cost that donor logframes often hide. Identity-checked exams and a seasonal capstone replace laboratory breeding this university does not run. MSc Climate-Resilient Agribusiness is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Seasonality, Drought, and Flood as Cash-Flow Events through Seasonality, Drought, and Flood as Cash-Flow Events; Smallholder Risk-Sharing without Romanticising Poverty; Gender and Labour in Rural Value Chains; Moisture, Pests, and Warehouse Receipts; Off-Taker Contracts Smallholders Can Read; Quality Grades and Side-Selling, and finish on Season File Construction. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students draw the system, name the constraint that binds it, and compare two responses. Reading is a system description, an indicator note, and a project option paper. The artefact a marker expects is a recommendation for one decision, with the evidence and the downside. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Build a climate-shock scenario into a working-capital plan Design storage and quality controls a co-op can actually staff Write a bilingual off-taker or warehouse note Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. This course does not confer a professional engineering licence. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
Thirty-six credits: production risk as management data, post-harvest and contracts, finance and markets, and a seasonal capstone. Identity-checked exams. No laboratory breeding facility is claimed.
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Tuition is free. Examinations are free. There is no exam fee. Study from anywhere in the world.
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| AFU561 | Seasonality, Drought, and Flood as Cash-Flow Events Students draw the physical or market system and name the constraint that binds it. The module is Seasonality, Drought, and Flood as Cash-Flow Events.
| 3 |
| AFU562 | Smallholder Risk-Sharing without Romanticising Poverty Students choose indicators and show how a bad indicator would mislead a decision. The module is Smallholder Risk-Sharing without Romanticising Poverty.
| 3 |
| AFU563 | Gender and Labour in Rural Value Chains Students compare two project options on cost, time, and downside. The module is Gender and Labour in Rural Value Chains.
| 3 |
| AFU564 | Traditional Authorities and Land Access as Facts Students write a recommendation for one site, grid, or product decision. The module is Traditional Authorities and Land Access as Facts.
| 3 |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| AFU565 | Moisture, Pests, and Warehouse Receipts Students draw the physical or market system and name the constraint that binds it. The module is Moisture, Pests, and Warehouse Receipts.
| 3 |
| AFU566 | Off-Taker Contracts Smallholders Can Read Students choose indicators and show how a bad indicator would mislead a decision. The module is Off-Taker Contracts Smallholders Can Read.
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| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| AFU569 | Working Capital, Input Credit, and Over-Indebtedness Students draw the physical or market system and name the constraint that binds it. The module is Working Capital, Input Credit, and Over-Indebtedness.
| 3 |
| AFU570 | AfCFTA Processed-Goods Paperwork for SMEs Students choose indicators and show how a bad indicator would mislead a decision. The module is AfCFTA Processed-Goods Paperwork for SMEs.
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| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
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| AFU573 | Agribusiness Research Methods Students draw the physical or market system and name the constraint that binds it. The module is Agribusiness Research Methods.
| 3 |
| AFU574 | Writing for Co-ops and District Desks Students choose indicators and show how a bad indicator would mislead a decision. The module is Writing for Co-ops and District Desks.
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Modules are assessed through a published mix of coursework, applied projects, and examinations. Exam windows are announced in advance so students in other time zones are not forced into overnight sittings. Alternative arrangements are available where documented.
The published duration is 18 months. Teaching language: English + French assessment options. Actual time-to-complete depends on mode and any recognised prior learning.
This is a fully online award. You study from your country. No student visa and no campus relocation are required.
Degree tuition for this award is published as £0 / tuition-free on the online pathway. Examination or administrative fees may apply at checkout — never an annual tuition invoice. Check the Fees page for any extras.
Requirements are grouped on this page (academic, English, documents). Equivalent qualifications are considered. English may be waived after prior English-medium study.
Assessment is typically a mix of coursework, projects, and examinations. Doctoral awards include a thesis or dissertation and an oral examination. Details sit in the programme specification and module outlines.
Recognition of the award for local employment, professional licence, or ministry attestation is decided by your employer or regulator. African Future University publishes verification pages for certificates. We do not claim automatic equivalence in every country.
Start an application on this website. Progress is saved from the first step. Admissions: admissions@afutureuni.com.
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| AFU567 | Quality Grades and Side-Selling Students compare two project options on cost, time, and downside. The module is Quality Grades and Side-Selling.
| 3 |
| AFU568 | Feeder Roads and Market-Day Logistics Students write a recommendation for one site, grid, or product decision. The module is Feeder Roads and Market-Day Logistics.
| 3 |
| 3 |
| AFU571 | EN/FR Agribusiness Administration Documents Students compare two project options on cost, time, and downside. The module is EN/FR Agribusiness Administration Documents.
| 3 |
| AFU572 | Digital Prices and Traceability on Poor Connectivity Students write a recommendation for one site, grid, or product decision. The module is Digital Prices and Traceability on Poor Connectivity.
| 3 |
| 3 |
| AFU575 | Season File Construction Students compare two project options on cost, time, and downside. The module is Season File Construction.
| 3 |
| AFU576 | Capstone: Climate-Resilient Enterprise Operations Students write a recommendation for one site, grid, or product decision. The module is Capstone: Climate-Resilient Enterprise Operations.
| 3 |