The launch of the online series and a Year 1 review of the 4R Solution project, a Global Affairs Canada funded project that is working to improve the socio-economic well-being and resilience of 80,000 smallholder farmers, particularly women, in Ethiopia, Ghana and Senegal.

The online series aims to create a network of African and Canadian scientists and academics with a goal of advancing 4Rs and precision agriculture science and extension.

The event was originally designed to be a three day event in June 2020 hosted at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Due to COVID-19 outbreak worldwide, the program was postponed in March 2020. It has now been redesigned to be fully virtual – a series of two hour live webinars over eight months. The first of the eight series is scheduled to be on Monday, June 15, 2020.