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Six new projects under the first round of the third call of the Food & Business Applied Research Fund (ARF) have received funding from NWO-WOTRO. The new ARF-projects will start in the next few months and will take up to three years. All research teams are led by a practitioner organization from one of the fifteen partner countries of Dutch development cooperation. »

The November newsletter of the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) is filled with nine updates on F&BKP related research, calls and events.  On the F&BKP website a Partners section has been published with information on strategic partnerships and a non-exhaustive, dynamic and continuously growing overview of partners of the Platform. Information on the collaboration and knowledge »

The F&BKP assisted with a mid-term review of the Geodata for Agriculture and Water (G4AW) Facility. The findings show that the G4AW Facility opens new markets for providing information services. The G4AW projects offer a wide range of business models that address a gap in the current global geodata services market by offering locally targeted advice to small food producers, based on satellite information. »

CSR Netherlands (MVO Nederland) and the Platform have started a project “Feeding Cities” together with innovative entrepreneurs: they will think and work together to tackle challenges related to food and nutrition security in fast-growing urban areas. »

In the context of the MoU “Food for All’ signed in 2015 between the World Bank Group and the Netherlands, a strategic secondment of a Senior Advisor Food Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands takes place to the World Bank Agriculture Global Practice. Mr. Wijnand Van IJssel has been selected for »

NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development recently launched a call for proposals on strengthening the scientific base for knowledge brokering activities and approaches in research programmes. The call is entitled SURe: Science for Using Research. The deadline for applications is January 31, 2017. »