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The GCP project “Intermediaries in inclusive business networks for scaling food security in East & West Africa” which developed an IB market assessment tool that provides up front insights in the strengths and the weaknesses of markets for inclusive innovation on food and nutrition security, published its final research findings. »

Main result of the ARF project “Solar drying technology for smallholder farmers in Ghana” is the innovation introduced to design, develop and commission low-entry cost, solar drying technology for fruit & vegetable processing. Please download the factsheet with final findings of this Applied Research Fund Call 1 project. »

Please download the factsheet with midterm findings of this GCP-3 Integrated Project. »

The Food & Nutrition Security Excellence Programme challenges teams of Bachelor students to contribute to Food & Nutrition Security (FNS) by working on real-life cases of Dutch embassies in Africa. Students can now register: selected teams will work for a period of three months on consultancy assignments and pitch their final ideas for the embassies and Dutch FNS experts.  »

In the framework of the GCP project HortEco and ANII, Uruguay, a workshop was organized entitled “Improvement of soil quality and reduction of agrochemical use in vegetable production systems: onion crop as a model”. On May 20, 2019, thirty people, including farmers, technicians and researchers, met to discuss how to make the technology of green manure and reduced tillage viable in organic vegetable production. »

Please download the factsheet with final findings of this Applied Research Fund Call 2 project. »

Please download the factsheet with final findings of this Applied Research Fund Call 2 project. »

Please download the factsheet with final findings of this Applied Research Fund Call 2 project. »

Please download the factsheet with final findings of this Applied Research Fund Call 2 project. »