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The YEP Programmes Agrofood and Water offer Dutch young experts the opportunity to acquire professional experience abroad during minimum 1 and maximum 2 years. Organizations can apply for young expert positions before February 1, 2016. Three YEAP Agrofood vacancies are still available, with deadline December 19, 2015. »

Time and resources from the Food & Business Knowledge Platform, CTA and the Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen UR have made possible a Trainer’s manual and a Trainee workbook for a short course on Inclusive Business for SMEs. »

At the end of September 2015 some 120 senior practitioners came together for a 2-day workshop: they are all at the forefront of inclusive approaches in SE Asia to engage smallholder farmers in value chains . This Roundtable on Inclusive Agribusiness in Southeast Asia was held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on September 23 »

Agropolis Fondation, Fondazione Cariplo and Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso announce the launch of the “Thought for Food Initiative: Transdisciplinary research towards more sustainable food systems” Call for Proposals, with deadline February 29, 2016. »

A brief report on the action-oriented discussion event of October 30, 2015, organized by NGWN, F&BKP and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Economic Affairs. The meeting forms part of a series of events to scale up Dutch efforts towards achieving nutrition security. »

On November 20, 2015, Bee Collective, Wicked Problems Plaza, Postharvest Network and the F&BKP organized a Wicked World – Bee Collective session titled, “Potato losses, Value chain efficiency and Food security” in the Nailab, an innovation hub for social businesses in Nairobi, Kenya. »