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NWO-WOTRO research projects

Food & Business Research (F&BR) is a funding instrument managed by WOTRO, the Science for Global Development department of NWO (the Dutch Research Council). It aimed at addressing persistent food security challenges in low and middle income countries. In the years 2013-2020, the Food & Business Knowledge Platform’s two main roles related to the F&BR were:

  • Defining the scopes of the various F&BR Calls of the Global Challenges Programme (GCP) and the Applied Research Fund (ARF). All background information on the F&BR funding instrument can be found at the NWO-WOTRO website.
  • Supporting (jointly with NWO-WOTRO) all GCP and ARF research projects in sharing, uptake and impact generation of their research results. More information on how exactly the F&BKP Office supported the projects can be found here.

On this F&BKP website, all news concerning organized GCP and ARF activities (such as conferences), and all pages of the individual GCP and ARF projects including all their developed knowledge products will stay available. Furthermore, all papers and activities related to the synthesis study of the F&BR research projects, are still accessible as well.

 

F&BR Synthesis study

From 2020 on a synthesis study of results of F&BR research projects is  conducted. It analyses insights on project and Call levels divided in eight thematic and four papers that focus more on the outcomes and/or (multi-stakeholder) approach applied within the F&BR programme. The various papers all provide insights into research results and effects on policy and practice.

Continue to the F&BR Synthesis study overview page»

 

GCP overview page
Global Challenges Programme

The objective of the Global Challenges Programme (GCP) is to promote research-based advanced understanding of emerging key issues in global and regional food security and their impact on local food security and the role of private sector development.

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ARF overview page
Applied Research Fund

The objective of the Applied Research Fund (ARF) is to promote demand driven research and supported innovations that contribute to food security and private sector development in Dutch partner countries.

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Netherlands Food Partnership
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The F&BKP is continuing in Netherlands Food Partnership: information on all ongoing activities is available at the NFP website. NFP enables powerful collaboration between relevant Dutch organisations and international partners to achieve food systems change. We refer you to NFP in case you want to link with partners or look for relevant knowledge and expertise.
For more information on the transition and NFP, please see the explanation under About.
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GCP & ARF Projects Locator
On this worldmap all GCP (purple) and ARF (blue) projects are indicated with icons. The icons are placed in (one of) the countries where the research takes place. Click on an icon to read a short introduction about the project; then press the “Read more” link to find details on the Research Project page.
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Food & Business Research
Food & Business Research provides grants to consortia of researchers and practitioners (private and/or public) for research that contributes to food security in LMICs. Cooperation within the programme between public and private parties is expected to facilitate the utilisation of results research, thus contributing to new products, policies and practices. The activity consists of two separate funding instruments: the Food & Business Global Challenges Programme and the Food & Business Applied Research Fund.