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The European Commission will boost research competitiveness by investing almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020. This EU’s research and innovation funding scheme, following a new Work Programme for 2016-17, was adopted on October 13, 2015. One of the main research topics is Sustainable Food Security.  In »

The YEP Programmes Agrofood and Water offer Dutch young experts the opportunity to acquire professional experience abroad during minimum 1 and maximum 2 years. At the moment, seven vacancies are available: six in the Agrofood programme and one in the Water programme.   On the YEP web pages “Criteria“ and “Nederlandse Young Expert worden?” (both in »

Co-creation, stakeholder engagement and commercialization of knowledge were the central themes at the three-day-workshop on Food and Business Research in Uganda. About 40 project representatives and 25 external stakeholders actively engaged to enhance the uptake of research with a strong focus on SMEs. »

On September 24, 2015, an agenda for the realization of the Right to Food in the context of international peace and justice, with a special focus on the role of cities, was handed to Mr Jaap Smit, King’s Commissioner of the Dutch province of South Holland. The agenda was the result of a roundtable organized »

Monday September 21, 2015, eighty international and Dutch participants shared best practices on the collaboration between public and private sector in research partnerships, discussed the role and position of partners, and explored opportunities for the development of the new CGIAR research programs. »

“While we know more than ever about how to combat malnutrition, too little of this knowledge is being acted upon.” Next week, the Global Nutrition Report 2015 will be launched in New York. The report is the second in an series of annual reports, of which the 2014 version was debated in a lively event »