F&BKP Office

The conference Africa Knows! is the closing activity of the Africa 2020 Year of the Leiden African Studies Assembly and takes place online on December 2-4, 2020. On December 3, F&BKP co-organizes Panel 47 on “Agricultural Tertiary and Vocational Education and Training (ATVET) in Africa: integration within the broader Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System”. »

Final factsheet of Applied Research Fund project “Developing economically viable foundation seed production models for crops vital to food security in Mali” has been published online. »

On December 9 and 10, 2020, NWO-WOTRO and the Food & Business Knowledge Platform organise the final Food & Business Research Conference. This conference will enlarge the impact of all research results by bringing together project-level insights and outcomes, in order to identify commonalities and create coherence. »

This ARF project has been finalized and research findings are available in this final factsheet. Main results include: producing biochar-based fertilizer on small farms was easy to learn; and yield benefits were large and consistent across crop types and production methods. »