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The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with The Broker and the five Knowledge Platforms for Global Development, is running an online consultation on how to promote inclusiveness in the Dutch policy agenda on trade and international cooperation. Views of participants of the consultation will feed into the policy letter that Lilianne Ploumen, Minister »

The first Food & Business Knowledge Platform newsletter of 2015 has been sent out! In this newsletter the Platform proudly presents the new website section featuring all Food & Business Research projects funded by NWO-WOTRO. Other items of interest include news from various partner networks as well as upcoming events. Please follow this link to read the complete fourth newsletter »

The Food & Business Knowledge Platform and NWO-WOTRO are pleased to announce that the third call for the Food & Business Global Challenges Programme (GCP) will be launched soon! This call invites consortia of Dutch and Low- and Middle-Income Country (LMIC) research institutes,  and another LMIC-based partner to submit proposals for research and innovation on ‘Sustainable »

Within the Food & Business Knowledge Platform, all awarded NWO-WOTRO Food & Business Research projects of GCP and ARF can connect with relevant partners to improve their research and work on various research uptake and impact activities. The F&BKP supports these activities by: Publishing the research projects, progress, (intermediate) results and events on the F&BKP »

The Dutch Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Economic Affairs have started a project that aims to strengthen the synergy between the innovative work of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and Dutch knowledge providers including knowledge institutes, the private sector and civil society, for the benefit of working towards a food-secure world. »

Over the past three years the Kenyan Horticulture and Food Security Program (HFSP) has aimed to provide smallholder farmers access to quality seeds, to offer training in good agricultural practices and to improve linkages to markets. ‘The program has helped farmers to come and work together; we can now control the prices as well as »