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Vacancy AgriProFocus Agrofood Network Facilitator & YEP Agrofood Project Manager
February 23, 2015News
Vacancy AgriProFocus Agrofood Network Facilitator & YEP Agrofood Project Manager

AgriProFocus, in cooperation with the Young Expert Programme (YEP) Programme Bureau and the Food & Business Knowledge Platform, is looking for a senior for the following positions: AgriProFocus Agrofood Network Facilitator and YEP Agrofood Project Manager (36 hours per week). The senior will be contracted by AgriProFocus and will be set to work in the »

Fruits and Vegetables: high potential for food and nutrition security!?
February 22, 2015News
Fruits and Vegetables: high potential for food and nutrition security!?

The horticultural sector, in particular the production of vegetables and fruits, is of growing interest to agricultural entrepreneurs of various scales in low- and middle-income countries. It is also an area of particular attention for Dutch Embassies, the Top Sector Horticulture and Starting Materials (TopSector TU), several Dutch NGOs and the network AgriProFocus. In recent »

Second round of Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund
February 20, 2015News
Second round of Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund

The second round of the Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) Agribusiness Africa Window (AAW) is currently open for applications until February 28, 2015. The AECF is a special fund that supports business ideas across Africa. The AECF AAW 2nd round will support business ideas in the fields of agribusiness, financial services and value chains which »

Call for proposals: scaling up food security and nutrition innovations
February 10, 2015News
Call for proposals: scaling up food security and nutrition innovations

Canada’s International Development Research Centre and Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada are pleased to announce the 2015 open call for proposals under the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (the “Fund”). Deadline for submission of proposals: March 27, 2015 With a strong focus on taking effective, pilot-tested innovations to a wider scale of use and application, »

Digging Deeper: Inside Africa’s Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Dynamics
February 9, 2015News
Digging Deeper: Inside Africa’s Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Dynamics

The book “Digging Deeper: Inside Africa’s Agricultural, Food and Nutrition Dynamics” attempts to dig deeper into what is currently happening in Africa’s agricultural and rural sector. It seeks to convince policymakers and others that it is important to look at the current African rural dynamics in ways that connect metropolitan demands for food with value »

Food for the many mouths of Africa
February 6, 2015News
Food for the many mouths of Africa

How can African countries use intellectual property rights to encourage plant breeding without taking away from the masses of small farmers the right to exchange seeds as they have done for thousands of years? NWO researcher Bram de Jonge is diligently searching for a way out of a political minefield: in a case study on »