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Realizing that enhanced intraregional trade and investment may contribute to inclusive economic development in West Africa, the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has raised knowledge questions on how to increase its effort to support West African integration and cooperation. »

In this post all researchers are presented who are involved in the Global Challenges Programme (GCP) research project aiming to strengthen women’s food entrepreneurship in city slums in Kenya & Burkina Faso. »

Project member Huig Bergsma wrote a Blogpost about the stakeholder workshop “Micronutrient management for improving harvests, farmers’ incomes, human nutrition, and the environment” organized on April 5, 2016, by the Food & Business Knowledge Platform at Centraal Museum in Utrecht. »

On May 4, 2016 a Knowledge Sharing Seminar was held in Comilla City on the theme of “Assessment of rodenticide use and rodenticide resistance in Bangladesh in order to reduce post-harvest losses”. The seminar was organized with the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Department of Food, Rice Mill Owners, Media, SMEs and NGOs. Chief Guest »

As an official launch of the Follow the Food programme in the three countries of focus (Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana), the research consortium members organized a kick-off workshop in each of the three countries in November and December 2015. »

There were some minor delays due to the October 2014 presidential and general elections and due to heavy flooding in Zambezia in early 2015. In January 2015, the project members of the ARF project “Mozambique: land, inclusive business & food security” started the research in Massingir district, Gaza province; and from May 2015 onwards in Maganja da Costa district, Zambezia province. »

After the visit in Kisumu, Kenya, in the context of the GCP research project “Women Food Entrepreneurs in City Slums of Kenya and Burkina Faso”, another visit was made to the second research site in the capital of Burkina Faso with local team members from the university of Ouagadougou, and the Dutch PhD candidate. »

In 2015 INCLUDE attended two events of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) on agriculture and development in Africa. The first was the Senior Policy Seminar ‘Agriculture in Africa’s Transformation: The Role of Smallholder Farmers’ held in Maputo, Mozambique on 26 and 27 March, which was hosted by AERC and the World Food Programme (WFP). »

On January 20 a seminar was organized on the topic of entrepreneurship and innovations in developing countries for young peoples’ involvement in farming. Participants were mid-career professionals from Africa and Asia as well as Netherlands-based professionals representing knowledge, policy and private institutes. »