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Agropolis Fondation, Fondazione Cariplo and Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso announce the launch of the “Thought for Food Initiative: Transdisciplinary research towards more sustainable food systems” Call for Proposals, with deadline February 29, 2016. »

The F&BKP Office has contracted the Food & Biobased Research institute of Wageningen University to conduct a study on “Drivers for Change” that focus on reducing postharvest food losses and improving food value chains. »

The Wicked World – Bee Collective session co-organized by the F&BKP and Postharvest Network on November 20, 2015 in Kenya, forms part of the Bee Collective Festival in which different wicked problems will be addressed on several locations all over the world. »

In its October newsletter the F&BKP Office presents various knowledge products recently developed within the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP). These include the complete report of the CGIAR Public-Private Sector Event on agricultural research partnerships, a brochure on valorization of agricultural knowledge in international Public-Private Partnerships, and a news item about the successful Food & Business »

In the designing phase of the next generation of CGIAR Research Programs a public-private sector event “Linking Public Goods with Private Interests to Scale Up Agricultural Innovations and Impact” was held in The Hague on September 21, 2015. »

The Fit-to-Purpose programme is an initiative by Pure Birds and the Postharvest Network and is supported by the Food & Business Knowledge Platform. The objective of this programme is to stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation of Dutch companies in agrofood value chains in developing countries. The approach is aimed at the development of simple and sustainable »