knowledge sharing

During a three-day workshop in Cotonou end November 2019, all Applied Research Fund (ARF) projects of NWO-WOTRO in Benin got together. Since these projects are finished or almost finalised, it was time to take stock of their outcomes, share lessons learned, and tackle issues related to scaling-up of project results. The final report (in French) and video are now available. »

In this second Newsletter of 2020, the focus is on COVID-19 and other activities of the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP), like the CoP Food security and stability, the NL-CGIAR strategy meeting on One CGIAR, a new synthesis paper on African indigenous foods, the winner of the Agrofood Broker 2019 Award, and a new deadline for YEP proposals.  »

The Applied Research Fund project “Enhancing Kersting’s groundnut production-marketability in Benin (Doyiwé)” published a video presenting the key activities of a Doyiwé seed fair and the achievements of the project.  »

On March 5, 2020 a seminar in the framework of the HortEco project was organized by the Faculty of Agronomy, Universidad de la República del Uruguay and Red de Agroecología. A synthesis report of the seminar is available in Spanish. »

Beginning 2020, a workshop was organized in the framework of the Global Challenges Programme project HortEco, entitled “Normative, technical and organizational aspects favoring the diffusion of organic agriculture in Valparaíso region, Chile”. »

Frejus Thoto (Executive Director of ACED Benin) is the winner of the Agrofood Broker of the Year Award 2019! The jury selected him as one of the three finalists. More than 1800 people voted for their favourite agrofood broker through an online poll at the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) website. With almost 70% of the votes, Frejus is the well-deserved winner of this year. »