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Out of 17 nominees, three final candidates were selected for the Agrofood Broker of the Year 2017 Award. More than 2000 people voted through an online poll and after two rounds, Addis Teshome was announced as the winner. The award was presented by Melle Leenstra, member of the jury, during the conference “Research & policy: two peas in a pod? A dialogue for food security impact”. »

There are six new YEP Agrofood job opportunities available.The current vacancies at Denys in Mali, AgriProFocus in East Africa (Kenya and Rwanda) and Larive in Kenya are open for Dutch nationals only. New in this round are positions at Netherlands Embassies; in Rwanda, Benin and Kenya. »

NWO-WOTRO and the F&BKP, in close cooperation with the Dutch Ministries of Foreign and Economic Affairs are organizing a conference”Research & Policy: two peas in a pod? A dialogue for food security impact”, on December 1, 2017 in The Hague, the Netherlands. Concept notes of the thematic session are now available in PDF. »

In the November F&BKP newsletter readers are invited to vote for one of the three finalists of the Agrofood Broker of the Year 2017 Award, and to complete the evaluation survey of the Knowledge Portal. Furthermore, the newsletter informs about eight new GCP projects, and refers to reports, workshops, reports and events related to Food and Nutrition Security (FNS). »

WOTRO, in collaboration with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the F&BKP, granted eight projects in the fourth call within the Global Challenges Programme (GCP). The call focuses on contributing to business models, incentives and innovative finance for scaling Climate Smart Agriculture. »

The Food & Knowledge Business Platform is supporting NLandscape, an informal network of over 20 Dutch environmental and developmental organizations who apply integrated landscape approaches and thinking to complement and strengthen their project design and implementation. »