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Company capability assessment track for agribusiness in developing markets
November 14, 2016News
Company capability assessment track for agribusiness in developing markets
Theme: Inclusive Business

BoP Inc, in collaboration with the F&BKP and CDI / PPPLab, created a company capability assessment track for Dutch agribusinesses to succeed in developing markets. The capabilities are categorized in Resource, Processes and Values and represent several topics that are also relevant to contribute to the SDGs. »

Team Edanso wins Food Connection Challenge
November 11, 2016News
Team Edanso wins Food Connection Challenge
Theme: Food Wastage

On November 5, 2016, the Food Connection Challenge (FCC) Final took place at the Afrikadag in Amsterdam. Dutch students pitched their innovative business solutions, developed to address postharvest issues of Ghanaian companies. The teams used the innovative expertise of Dutch entrepreneurs to support their business cases and aimed at adapting these technologies to the Ghanaian »

ARF workshop in Benin on enhancing research impact for food security completed successfully
November 7, 2016News
ARF workshop in Benin on enhancing research impact for food security completed successfully

Practitioners and researchers of seventeen projects within the NWO-WOTRO Food & Business Applied Research Fund (ARF), gathered in a workshop in Benin from October 25 to 28, 2016. »

Fifteenth F&BKP newsletter
September 30, 2016News
Fifteenth F&BKP newsletter

The September newsletter of the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) is filled with nine news items on results of F&BKP affiliated research, calls and events.  We would like to draw your attention to the Knowledge Portal, which is going through some changes, including the addition of more topics in the field of food and nutrition security. You can »

Dutch Development Results 2015: Food and Nutrition Security highlights
September 29, 2016News
Dutch Development Results 2015: Food and Nutrition Security highlights

The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released an online magazine which highlights results of their development agenda. It captures the contribution the Netherlands has made in 2015 to ban poverty and promote sustainable and inclusive growth around the world through the combined agenda for aid, trade and investment. In 2015, the Food and Nutrition »

Finance for Smallholder Farmers: takeaways July expert meetings
September 28, 2016News
Finance for Smallholder Farmers: takeaways July expert meetings

Last July, the Netherlands Platform for Inclusive Finance (NpM), together with AgriProFocus and funded by the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP), organized three expert meetings in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. The aim of these meetings was to share the enormous wealth of knowledge from the research “Finance for Smallholders: Opportunities for risk management by linking »