Dr. Amara Okonkwo
Director of Curriculum
Crop Physiology & Agronomy
PhD Crop Science · Certified GLOBALG.A.P. Trainer
We teach the practice, not the theory of the practice.
Minaa Edu is an independent learning institute for Good Agronomic Practices, built with agronomists, extension services and the farmers who put the work into the ground.
Why we exist
Good practice is well documented. It is badly taught.
The standards exist. FAO has published them, GLOBALG.A.P. audits against them, national schemes codify them. What is missing is the bridge between a 200-page control-points document and a farmer deciding, on a Tuesday, whether to spray.
Minaa Edu was founded to build that bridge: to take what the research and the standards already say and turn it into training a working person can actually finish. Short lessons. Real field exercises. Assessment that tests judgement rather than recall.
24
Countries reached
Four commitments we hold ourselves to.
These are not values on a wall. They are the criteria a course has to meet before we publish it.
01
Written by practitioners
Every course author has advised on its subject commercially. No course is written from a literature review alone.
02
Field-testable
Each module ends in an exercise you run on a real plot. If it can't be practised, it isn't taught.
03
Honest about cost
We state what a practice costs in money, labour and transition risk — including when the answer is 'this may not pay on your farm'.
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Mapped to standards
Learning outcomes are mapped to FAO GAP principles and GLOBALG.A.P. control points, so training translates into audit readiness.
What the numbers look like so far.
1,000+
Learners enrolled
Across 24 countries, from smallholdings to commercial blocks.
14
Published courses
Spanning five learning areas and 240+ individual lessons.
94%
Completion rate
Of learners who begin a course and reach the first assessment.
4.8
Average rating
From 2,600+ verified post-completion reviews.
How we got here
A short history.
Minaa Edu started as a photocopied handout. Most of what we know about teaching this material, we learned by getting it wrong first.
2021
A training pack, photocopied
The first version of what became the crop production course was a 40-page handout for a farmer field school in Kaduna. It kept getting photocopied and passed on.
2022
First digital cohort
180 learners took a six-week online version. Completion was 61%, which told us the lessons were too long.
2023
Rebuilt around short lessons
We cut every lesson to under 20 minutes and added a field exercise to each module. Completion went to 88%.
2024
Assessment and certification
The assessment board was formed and the first verifiable certificates were issued.
2025
Five learning areas
Soil & water, pest & disease, sustainability and farm management joined crop production as full tracks.
2026
Open curriculum
Fourteen courses across five learning areas, three of them free the whole way through and the rest free to start — funded by institutional licensing, group seats and one-off course fees.
Faculty
The people who write the courses.
Six lead instructors, each responsible for the courses in their area — and accountable for keeping them current.
Prof. Daniel Mbeki
Lead Instructor, Soil & Water
Soil Science & Irrigation
Professor of Soil Science · Chartered Environmentalist
Dr. Lena Fischer
Lead Instructor, Crop Protection
Entomology & Plant Pathology
PhD Entomology · BASIS Certified Crop Adviser
Samuel Adeyemi
Lead Instructor, Sustainability
Regenerative & Organic Systems
MSc Sustainable Agriculture · Organic Systems Inspector
Grace Wanjiru
Lead Instructor, Post-Harvest
Post-Harvest Systems & Food Safety
MSc Food Science · HACCP Lead Auditor
Tomás Herrera
Instructor, Farm Business
Farm Economics & Mechanisation
MBA Agribusiness · Farm Management Consultant
Resources
Free to use, no enrolment needed.
Reference material we maintain alongside the courses. Take it, print it, hand it out at a field day.
Field guides
Printable one-page guides on scouting, sampling, calibration and safe storage.
18 guides · PDFGlossary of terms
Plain-language definitions for the vocabulary that shows up in standards documents.
340 entriesStandards library
Links and summaries for FAO GAP, GLOBALG.A.P. IFA, Codex and major national schemes.
Updated quarterlyRecord templates
Spray diaries, field records, gross margin and cash-flow spreadsheets.
XLSX & CSVDiagnostic gallery
Reference photographs of pest damage, disease symptoms and deficiency signs.
600+ imagesFor institutions
Cohort licensing, progress dashboards and curriculum mapping for colleges and co-operatives.
Contact us
Certification
A certificate that means something to a buyer.
Every Minaa Edu course ends in an assessed certificate with a verifiable ID, issued in your name and checkable by any employer, co-operative or auditor.
Assessed, not attendedA 70% pass mark on scenario-based questions drawn from real field cases.
Verifiable IDEach certificate carries a unique code that anyone can check on our register.
Mapped to standardsLearning outcomes are mapped to FAO GAP principles and GLOBALG.A.P. control points.
StackableComplete all five learning areas to earn the Advanced GAP Practitioner award.
Verified Award
Certificate of Completion
Soil Health & Fertility Management
Awarded for the successful completion of 6 modules, 21 lessons and a
supervised field assessment.
Dr. Amara Okonkwo
Director of Curriculum
Issued 12 March 2026
Certificate ID · FRW-2026-04182
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