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New YEP programme focuses on Agrofood
July 1, 2015News
New YEP programme focuses on Agrofood

The Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP), in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, implements the successful YEP Water programme, offering young water professionals an opportunity to acquire professional experience abroad. The YEP Programme Bureau, in partnership with the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP), has now announced the start of YEP Agrofood. It is a »

Busy summer for Strategic Partnership NL-CGIAR
June 29, 2015News
Busy summer for Strategic Partnership NL-CGIAR

A working group convened by F&BKP on behalf of the Ministries of Economic Affairs and Foreign Affairs is presently exploring how a strategic partnership between the CGIAR and the Netherlands, both through its financial support and collaboration with Dutch knowledge providers, can be developed with the aim to significantly contribute to the sustainable development goals. »

Knowledge agenda on land governance and food security
June 25, 2015News
Knowledge agenda on land governance and food security
Theme: Land Governance

The Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) and the Netherlands Academy on Land Governance (LANDac) have developed a knowledge agenda on land governance and food security. Two activities have been taken up: a scoping study on the linkages between land governance and food security, and the development of a capacity building trajectory on the same issues. »

World Development Report 2015 calls for knowledge of human mindsets in development policies
June 15, 2015News
World Development Report 2015 calls for knowledge of human mindsets in development policies

On Wednesday June 10, 2015 a presentation was given at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the World Development Report 2015 “Mind, Society and Behavior” (WDR2015). Co-author Ryan Muldoon shared the core insights of the report with policy, practical and research development professionals from the Netherlands. The WDR2015 discusses the limits of rational thinking »

F&BKP and Postharvest Network present at No More Food to Waste Conference
June 15, 2015Knowledge activity
F&BKP and Postharvest Network present at No More Food to Waste Conference
Theme: Food Wastage

The Netherlands, together with the FAO, is organizing the international conference No More Food to Waste – Global action to stop food waste and food losses, held from June 16 till June 19, 2015 in the World Forum convention center in The Hague, the Netherlands. The Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) and the Postharvest Network (PHN) »

Capitalizing on knowledge in international public-private partnerships
June 4, 2015News
Capitalizing on knowledge in international public-private partnerships

The Ministry of Economic Affairs, department of Agriculture and Nature Knowledge, and the Food & Business Knowledge Platform together with Wageningen University & Research centre organized an expert meeting on the development of international PPPs and the valorization of knowledge by knowledge institutes and the private sector. Researchers from Wageningen UR presented the results of »