F&BKP Annual Plan 2015

The Food & Business Knowledge Platform has published its Annual Plan 2015. The document defines the Platform’s strategic goals and outlines the activities for the year 2015. 

Strategic goals

The strategic goals of the F&BKP to increase food and nutrition security (FNS) are to contribute to:

• Coherent policy development and programmes supported by an efficient knowledge and research system.
• Increased investments and collaboration from the Dutch private sector and local entrepreneurs, traders and investors in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs).
• Relevance (focus and coherence) and efficient use of Dutch, local, and international knowledge and research capacity.

Three pillars

The F&BKP has defined activities ordered around three main pillars:

• Providing overviews, disseminating knowledge and inspiring professionals by presenting good practices and cutting edge knowledge under the selected topics on the F&BKP Knowledge Portal.
• Supporting knowledge activities of networks through sharing knowledge, co-creating knowledge, deepening existing knowledge and translating knowledge into policy and practice. For key themes several knowledge initiatives and studies are organized.
• Preparing the scope of NWO-WOTRO’s F&B Global Challenges Fund (GCP) and Applied Research Fund (ARF), and actively supporting research teams within these programs to achieve impact on practice and policy.

Please downlaod the F&BKP Annual Plan 2015 to read more detailed information on the Theroy of Change, Knowledge Agenda, three pillars, and the overall management of the F&BKP.