It’s 9 pm and I just arrived home from the most exciting farm visit I had in a long time. And as I logged on to Facebook, I saw what has happened in Mauritius: another torrential rainfall and this time the capital city, Port-Louis is severely hit. Flooding, accidents, traffic jam,… Read More
Each year, an external body is invited by the Faculty of Agriculture (University of Mauritius) to assess final year students on their dissertation and also the quality of the programmes being run at the Faculty. This year (2012), Professor Richard Ellis was invited as assessor at the University of Mauritius. … Read More
For several years, I’ve been hearing about climate change and its impact, but it is only when I started to really SEE its effects that I realized what was happening. While conducting a field visit with extension officers (when I was on work placement at the Agricultural Research and Extension… Read More
On Friday, I went to a seminar on climate change by Dr Woodrow Clark II, Nobel Prize winner in 2007. The seminar was to start at 10:30 and as I had nothing great to do at the Faculty (no lectures on Fridays and dissertation not yet started!), I reached at the… Read More