This Directorate has the responsibility of connecting the University to relevant agencies. Such connections will facilitate development of functional, collaborative and cooperative linkage activities with international and national agencies. Such linkage activities encourage securing fellowship; scholarship and quest for external aids that will facilitate adequate exposure of MOUAU staff and students at all levels for proper development of appropriate technologies.

Such linkages foster mutual co-operation, which helps to advance the University's academic programmes and expose the staff to beneficial comparative experience.

In this regard we maintain linkages with instittions such as The Earth Institute, Columbia University New York, USA; Utah State University Logan, Utah, USA; Bar-Ilan University, Israel, Galillee College of Agriculture, Israel, Acharya N.G Ranga Agricultural University Rajendranagar, Hydrerabad, India, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Ibadan, Embassy of the United States of America , Abuja Nigeria and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Nigeria Office.

The Directorate also has the responsibility of sourcing funds internally and externally for the University.