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Young Expert Programmes (YEP) is looking for project proposals for new YEP positions for the sectors Water, Agrofood and Energy. Deadline for submitting proposals is May 10, 2020. »

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. »

YEP is looking for Dutch candidates for seven new positions. Main goal of YEP, consisting of Agrofood, Water and Renewable Energy, is to offer young professionals the opportunity to kickstart their international career supported by training and coaching.  The current Agrofood vacancies in Kenya and Rwanda are open for Dutch nationals only. Application for the new YEP positions in batch 20 is open until April 1, 2020. »

In this first Newsletter of 2020, the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) informs about the developments of the Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP) and highlights current activities of the Platform.  »

There is still an enormous challenge at hand to reach the SDGs in the next 10 years. Being able to understand how different institutions contribute to this challenge is important information. CGIAR recently launched a new Dashboard that makes its impact more visible to a large audience. A very interesting and useful tool for Food and Nutrition Security professionals. »

In the final round of the CGIAR Senior Expert Programme (SEP), two Senior Experts receive extra funding to spend more time on their CGIAR research and research management in large CGIAR programmes and platforms. »