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6 | cd | ADAFARM | Small scale farmers’ sustainable adaptation strategies to climate change based on ecosystem services | Climate Change | * | WP3 WP4 | ADAFARM aims to analyze ecosystem-based climate adaptation options and nature based solutions for small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. | In line with the SDGS these strategies would be economically efficient, environmentally sustainable and socially equitable. The project will build on data, results and stakeholder networks from the ACES project (a 3-year research project, aiming at analyzing the consequences from the loss of ecosystem services from deforestation to the livelihoods of poor rural communities). | A social-ecological frame to focus on the role played by formal and informal institutions and key factors like poverty and gender. Help develop climate adaptation strategies by governments and interested organizations that ultimately benefit small scale farmers livelihoods. | I-CATALIST | Oct-18 | Nov-20 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/798867 | An entreprise. | |||||||||||||
7 | cd | AGriSCALE | Scaling Agri-Entrepreneurship and Industry Engagement in Food and Agribusiness Training in Sub-Saharan Africa | Agribusiness | * | WP3 | To reform agri-entrepreneurship education in Sub-Saharan Africa, towards work-like relevant and entrepreneurial skills, and competences for tackling global climate change issues through promoting sustainable agriculture. | AgriSCALE is a joint initiative. A new network-based learning ecosystem will be created by the nine partner universities in Kenya, Uganda Zambia, Italy and Finland. Students in the partner universities will learn through problem-based learning (PBL) methods and real-life challenges. | A network with industry and societal partners will be created for close collaboration between the academic and industrial sector. | Häme University of Applied Sciences (HAMK) Finland | - | Kenya; Uganda; Zambia | Kenya, Uganda, Zambia | Oct-20 | Sep-23 | https://www.agriscale.net/ https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/leap4fnssa-projects/316 | |||||||||||
8 | cd | AfriCultuReS | Enhancing Food Security in AFRIcan AgriCULTUral Systems with the Support of REmote Sensing | Data, GIS | * | WP1 | AfriCultuReS aims to design, implement and demonstrate an integrated agricultural monitoring and early warning system that will support decision making in the field of food security. | AfriCultuReS will deliver a broad range of climatic, production, biophysical and economic information, for various regions in Africa. AfriCultuReS will apply geospatial science to sustainable agricultural development, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation in Africa. | To produce a web tool that will support early decision making for the stakeholders of African food production. | GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE SA | - | Kenya, Tunisia, South Africa | Nov-17 | Oct-22 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/774652 | Component Manufacturers Value Added Services Providers | |||||||||||
9 | cd | AFTER | African Food Tradition Revisited by Research | Food innovations, technology | * | WP3 | AFTER seeks to turn research into quantifiable and innovative technologies and products that are commercially viable in both European and African markets. | AFTER aims to revisit traditional African products, knowledge and know-how in the light of new technologies for the benefit of consumers, producers and processors in Africa and Europe. A matrix of technologies and processes shared between Europe and Africa will be jointly developed. | 10 selected products representing 3 families of foods (fermented cereal-based, fermented salted fish and meat, and vegetable and fruit based functional foods). | Cirad | Cirad | South Africa | Sep-10 | Nov-14 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/245025 | ||||||||||||
10 | FNSSA | SALSA | Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food security | Agribusiness | ** | WP3 WP4 | SALSA will assess the role of small farms and small food businesses in delivering a sustainable and secure supply of affordable, nutritious and culturally adequate food. | SALSA will identify the mechanisms which, at different scales, can strengthen the role of small farms in food systems and thereby support sustainable food and nutrition security (FNS). By considering a gradient of 30 reference regions in Europe and in Africa, we will obtain a differentiated understanding of the role of small farms and small food businesses in very differently structured food systems and situations. | A transdisciplinary, multi-scale approach that builds on and connects relevant theoretical and analytical frameworks within a food systems approach, and that uses qualitative, consultative and quantitative methods. A new combination of data-based methods and tools (including satellite technologies) for rigorously assessing in quantitative terms the interrelations between small farms, other small food businesses and FNS. | University of Evora | - | Cabo Verde; Ghana; Kenya; Malawi; Tunisia; Italy; Latvia; Poland; Spain; Norway | Ghana; Kenya; Tunisia | Apr-16 | Jul-20 | http://www.salsa.uevora.pt/en/ https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/leap4fnssa-projects/11 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/677363 | |||||||||||
11 | ub | Agri-Urban | The roots of the city | Urban Food Systems | * | WP3 WP4 | To rethink Agri-food production in small and medium-sized European cities. To place cities at the core of a growing global movement that recognises the current complexity of food systems and the links between rural cities and nearby cities as a way to ensure regional development. | Agri-food production is a mature industry that continues to play an important role in terms of GDP, employment and environmental sustainability. New growth potentials must be activated by means of innovation, new business models and strategies. | Municipalities | 11 EU cities | Jun-16 | apr-18 | https://urbact.eu/networks/agri-urban | ||||||||||||||
12 | cd | ALISA | Food know-how and agri-food innovations in West Africa | Food innovations, technology | * | WP3 | Apply the results of the research project ALISA into local development dynamics in West-Africa. | A seminar organised in Senegal focusing on: (i) Qualification of food-products, socio-professional organisations and local food-processing development; (ii) Information systems concerning evolution of food-consumption; (iii) "Eccles critiques" : training systems allowing for learning-by-doing / knowledge transfers / dissemination of food-processing skills. | Cirad | Cirad | Bénin, Burkina Faso, Senegal | Burkina Faso, Senegal | Oct-02 | Mar-03 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/ICA4-CT-2002-50012 | ||||||||||||
13 | cd | CAAST-NET PLUS | Advancing SSA-EU cooperation in research and innovation for global challenges | AU-EU partnership | * | WP5 | To encourage more and better bi-regional STI cooperation between for enhanced outcomes around topics of mutual interest, and particularly in relation to the global societal challenges of climate change, food insecurity and health. | In 2007, heads of state and government from Africa and Europe launched the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) formulated in response to geopolitical changes, globalisation and the processes of integration in Africa and Europe. | Bi-regional dialogue | ASSOCIATION OF COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITIES | Jan-13 | Dec-17 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/311806 | ||||||||||||||
14 | cd | BigPicnic | Big Picnic:Big Questions - engaging the public with Responsible Research and Innovation on Food Security | Food and Nutrition Security | * | WP4 | Ensuring the availability of and access to sufficient safe and nutritious food is a key priority that impacts all EU citizens and Horizon 2020 has therefore identified food security as one of the major challenges to be addressed. | BGCI, an international network organisation, will work with botanic gardens, experienced informal science centres with research expertise in food and food plants, alongside other key organisations. The project builds through the co-creation approach and public debate, public understanding of food security issues and enables adults and young people across Europe and in Africa to debate and articulate their views on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in this field to their peers, scientists and policy makers. | Delivery of low-cost, co-created outreach exhibitions on food security, using the metaphor of a picnic basket; Science cafés; A report articulating public opinion and recommendations for RRI on food security and a co-creation toolkit to build capacity for engagement in further science institutions across the EU. | BOTANIC GARDENS CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL LBG | - | Uganda | May-16 | Apr-19 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/710780 | ||||||||||||
15 | cd | BIO4AFRICA | Diversifying revenue in rural Africa through circular, sustainable and replicable bio-based solutions and business models | Circular economy | * | WP3 | To empower local farmers to sustainably produce a variety of higher-value biobased products and energy, thereby significantly improving the environmental, economic and social performance of their forage and agri-food systems. | Facilitate the growth of the bioeconomy in rural Africa by developing circular biobased solutions and value chains to encourage the use of local resources and diversify the income of farmers. The initiative will focus on transferring simple, small-scale and robust biobased technologies adapted to local biomass, needs and contexts. | Cirad | Cirad | Kenya, Uganda | Jun-21 | May-25 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101000762 | |||||||||||||
16 | UB | BioCanteens | Education - Food - Environment - Local Economy - Governance | School canteens | * | WP4 WP6 | To ensure the distribution of sustainable school meals in participating cities, as a key lever towards the development of an integrated local agri-food approach, protecting both citizens’ health and the environment. | The project aims to transfer Mouans-Sartoux’s Good Practice in the field of collective school catering, to other highly committed cities across Europe. Mouans-Sartoux’s Good Practice is based on the daily distribution of meals that are 100% organic and mostly composed of local products, the drastic reduction of food waste thereby fully compensating the higher cost of switching to organic products, and the organisation of dedicated educational activities to raise children’s awareness about sustainable food. | BioCanteens Transfer Lessons and Food Sovereignty Posters; BioCanteens Kitchen Micro Good Practices and Food Education Micro Good Practices | Mouans-Sartoux City Council | 7 EU cities | Jul-05 | Jul-05 | https://urbact.eu/networks/biocanteens | |||||||||||||
17 | cd | BIOWASTE4SP | Turning biowaste into sustainable products: development of appropriate conversion technologies applicable in developing countries | Circular economy | * | WP4 | The project will contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by improving the management of biowastes in developing countries and thus reducing their potential adverse impacts on human and animal health, the environment and the economy. | The project will develop environmentally appropriate and socio-economically sustainable biotechnological processes for converting biodegradable fractions of identified African and Mediterranean agricultural and industrial waste, as well as fractions of municipal and animal solid waste into food, feed, value-added products for nutraceuticals and healthcare, biogas and organic based fertilizer. | Danish TEKNOLOGISK INSTITUT | - | Kenya, South Africa | Oct-12 | Sep-15 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/312111 | Research and technology company | ||||||||||||
18 | cd | URBANFOSC | Urban Food Resilience under Climate Change Challenges | Climate Change | ** | WP3 WP4 | To contribute to the development and implementation of transformative adaptation strategies that enhance urban nutrition and the resilience of urban food systems to climate change. | Achieving food and nutrition security in African (secondary) cities is an important challenge within the context of rapid urbanization, climate change and the increased production for international value chains sourcing regions of fresh produce (and its impact on competition for land and water resources). The project uses a food systems mapping and modelling approach to identify critical linkages, actor networks and leverage points in urban food systems. Network models allow to understand the cascading impacts of climate change on the urban food system. | Co-design with stakeholders in government, the private sector and civil society, possible interventions and governance processes; Developing a generic approach that has high transferability to other (secondary) cities across Africa. | VU Amsterdam | Cirad | Algeria, Kenya, South Africa | Kenya, South Africa | Jun-21 | May-24 | https://www.foscera.net/en/foscera/Projects/URBANFOSC.htm https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/leap4fnssa-projects/301 | |||||||||||
19 | ft | Cities2030 | Urban food systems - Impetus for transition | CRFS | ** | WP3 WP4 WP6 | To future proof an effective cities and regions food system (CRFS) via a connected structure centered in the citizen, built on trust, with partners encompassing the entire CRFS. | Urban food systems demand immediate action. Cities2030 proposes consumers must be at the core of solutions. Urban food systems and ecosystems (CRFS) demand immediate action. CITIES2030 innovative approach has a great opportunity to attract the best researchers, entrepreneurs, civil society leaders, cities and all agents of the CRFS as well. We commit to working towards the transformation and restructuring of the way systems produce, transport and supply, recycle and reuse food in the 21st century. | CRFS Labs; CRFS Alliance, a community of practice supported by a digital platform, reaching all over Europe and beyond; A blockchain-based data-driven UFSE management platform will secure intelligence and coordination actions by delivering an accurate, almost real-time digital twin of the whole supply chain. | University of Venice | 41 from 20 countries | 9 EU front-runners cities, 2 regions, 50 EU pilot cities | Sep-20 | Oct-24 | https://cities2030.eu/ | ||||||||||||
20 | CleverFood | Towards a fair, healthy, sustainable, circular and more plant-based food system | Food Systems | * | WP2 WP3 WP6 | To pave the way for a fair, healthy and sustainable food system. | CLEVERFOOD is developing the FOOD 2030 Online Platform as part of its efforts to organise a joined-up approach to transforming the food system for the benefit of the people and the planet. The platform will be the home of two networks: the FOOD 2030 Project Collaboration Network and the FOOD 2030 Connected Lab Network. It will support new and current projects, partnerships and networks with a joined-up and collaborative approach. | Policy Labs; Living Labs; FOOD 2030 Project Collaboration and Connected Lab Networks | EU | https://food2030.eu/projects/cleverfood/ | |||||||||||||||||
21 | cd | CO-CREATE | Confronting Obesity: Co-creating policy with youth | Nutrition | ** | WP4 | CO-CREATE aims to reduce childhood obesity and its co-morbidities by working with adolescents, to create, inform and disseminate obesity-preventive evidence-based policies. | The project applies a systems approach to provide a better understanding of how factors associated with obesity interact at various levels. CO-CREATE involves and empowers adolescents and youth organizations to foster a participatory process of identifying and formulating relevant policies, deliberating such options with other private and public actors, promoting relevant policy agenda and tools and strategies for implementation. | FOLKEHELSEINSTITUTTET (Public Health Institute) | South Africa | May-18 | Oct-23 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/774210 | ||||||||||||||
22 | Dataf4Food2030 | Discovering the value of data economy in European food systems | Data, GIS | * | WP1 | To offer business and data governance models that are a result of a dialogue with stakeholders. To offer a robust monitoring system to ensure a fair and sustainable data economy. | We need to address the lack of understanding of multiple aspects of the Data Economy for Food Systems in which data are not only a new economic asset, but a strategic good in the transition to sustainable food systems and to a fair and inclusive society. We need to deepen our understanding and shared perspective of its development, performance and impact, using an interdisciplinary systems approach to avoid possible pitfalls and to ensure that it leads to a desirable future state. | Develop a system that monitors and evaluates the development, performance and impact on relevant EU policies of the data economy for food systems; Provide future scenarios and a roadmap and sustain the monitoring system to support policy development and accelerate the desired future state of the Data Economy for Food Systems | Wageningen Research | 12 European countries | Sep-22 | aug-26 | https://data4food2030.eu/ | ||||||||||||||
23 | DEAR | Eat4Change | Eat4Change | Food and Nutrition Security | ** | WP4WP6 | To engage citizens for healthy and sustainable diets, with food producers and retailers on sustainable agriculture production, and to create an enabling policy environment. | Global food production and consumption generate more than a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions. “Eat4Change” calls for a shift towards more sustainable diets and food production practices. The project engages especially 15 to 35 year old European citizens to decrease animal-based products in their diets and increase the consumption of plant-based food. It highlights global interconnections and dependencies and demonstrates how individual diets can impact the wellbeing of people and the planet. | 3 700 educators, school leaders, youth ambassadors, volunteers and young professionals have been empowered to mobilise people around sustainable food systems. Youth had their voices heard during 42 meetings with Members of the European Parliament. Several tools: food guide application, online food course, e-book with tips and recipes. | WWF Finland | - | EU and South America | - | https://dearprogramme.eu/project/eat4change/ | |||||||||||||
24 | cd/fn | FoodE | Sustainable Food Systems | CRFS | *** | WP2 WP3 WP4 | To accelerate the growth of sustainable and resilient City Region Food Systems (CRFS) by bringing together citizen-led local food initiatives across Europe, as well as co-developing and disseminating a range of tools - co-designed with academia, citizens, and food system start-ups - to ensure that the most up-to-date cross-sectorial knowledge is applied. FoodE seeks to build a "think global, eat local" mindset with a view to addressing pressing global challenges that threaten food security, while boosting the local economy. | Start-ups also provide an in-depth understanding of the needs of the key stakeholders, making resilient citizen-driven food systems happen.The key challenge is then to aggregate the most sustainable models of CRFS and enable co-creation of innovative pilot experiences, fostering the health and wellbeing of European citizens. This challenge will be tackled by setting a co-created mechanism, based on Citizen Science and Responsible Research and Innovation principles, where public authorities, citizens, business actors and non-profit organisations share ideas, tools, best practices and new models, supporting cities in becoming innovative food hubs. | Database of existing citizen-led food systems initiatives; Methodological framework for assessing existing CRFS ; Launching hands-on initiatives in 18 schools , publication of an e-book on CRFS, edited by and for young minds; Holding an open challenge/competition for the design of innovative CRFS pilot projects; Implementing and scaling-up 15 CRFS pilot projects in 12 EU cities/regions, involving coastal, rural and urban areas; Creating a CRFS ecolabel; Producing fact sheets on EU and national policies on CRFS; European guidebook to sustainable CRFS; An app to identify, monitor and assess CRFS initiatives. | University of Bologna | 24 | 8 EU countries | H20 | https://foode.eu/ | |||||||||||||
25 | cd | EiA | ENRICH in Africa - A Multi-sided Platform Business Model for supporting the EU-African Innovation Community. | AU-EU partnership | ** | WP3WP5 | To connect European researchers and businesses with the global innovation markets, the European Commission has promoted ENRICH centres in Brazil, China and the United States. The EU-funded EiA project will establish an ENRICH centre in Africa as a network of incubators and accelerators connecting European and African innovators. | Initially comprising the members of the EiA consortium, the network focuses on the capacity building and learning of incubators and accelerators to render them able to deliver high-quality services to the innovators. The network relies on a multi-sided platform with a smart digital structure and aims to expand to other stakeholders that meet the EiA standards. | A network of incubators and accelerators. | STEINBEIS 2I GMBH | - | Kenya, South Africa | Jan-21 | Dec-23 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101004709 | A companies network. | |||||||||||
26 | FNSSA | Healthy Diets4Africa | Combating malnutrition in Africa through diversification of the food system | Food and Nutrition Security | *** | WP3 WP4 | To develop safe, healthy and affordable diets by adopting a diversification strategy that will simultaneously reduce the pressure of food production on the environment. | The development of novel and biofortified crop varieties, utilization of orphan crops with high nutritional value, and diversification of cropping systems and food processing technology. We will link these efforts with a consumption-oriented cluster exploring the consumer acceptance, food safety, and nutritional health effects of diet diversification options. The best solutions that contribute to healthy diets via diversification while also promoting environmental health will be up-scaled via a network of food system stakeholders in eight African countries. | Based on the findings, the project will design communication and policy strategies to maximise outreach and impact of diversified food systems. | Justus-Liebig Universtiy Giessen - Germany | Cote d'Ivoire; Nigeria; Mauritius; Kenya; Cameroon | Kenya | Jan-23 | dec-28 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101083388 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101083388 | ||||||||||||
27 | cd | ERAFRICA | Developing African-European joint collaboration for Science and Technology | AU-EU partnership | * | WP5 | ERAfrica aims to reduce the fragmentation of the European Research Area by increasing the coordination between national research programmes across European Union Member States and Associated countries, in close coordination with national research programmes in Africa. | The consortium of the project gathers key S&T funding agencies and ministries from Europe and Africa and its actions will result in concrete co-operation between research programmes, such as their networking, mutual opening and the development, funding and implementation of joint activities. | INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT | IRD | Kenya, South Africa | Dec-10 | Nov-14 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/266603 | |||||||||||||
28 | UB | Food Corridors | Empowering rural & urban food connections within European regions | Urban Food Systems | * | WP3WP4 | To facilitate sustainable rural-urban connections from production to consumption. | Recent experience suggests that it is necessary to promote a transition towards regional food systems. FOOD CORRIDORS encourages the creation of a network of cities committed to the design of food plans that extend from the urban and peri-urban areas through a corridor that facilitates an urban-rural connection. This approach enhances the generation of production and consumption environments founded on a base of economic, social and environmental sustainability. | Creation of a network of cities committed to the design of food plans that extend from the urban and peri-urban areas through a corridor that facilitates an urban-rural connection. | Region of Coimbra | 7 EU territories | june-19 | aug-22 | https://urbact.eu/networks/food-corridors | |||||||||||||
29 | CD FNSSA | Food Wave | Empowering Urban Youth for Climate Action | Urban Food Systems | *** | WP6 WP4 | To create awareness of sustainable approaches to consuming and producing food in cities in support of climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, and to have an influential voice in institutional decisions to achieve a fair and sustainable global food system by 2030. | “Food Wave” is creating alliances between institutions, civil society and young people for a green, inclusive and sustainable future for our cities. The project focuses on the importance of sustainable food systems at urban level and the adoption of responsible lifestyles and practices by young people (aged 15-35) to mitigate climate change. Through activism schools, discussion fora, street actions, community dinners, film festivals, workshops and more, young “Food Wave” activists are leading the change — starting with food. | An international community of young people, interested in changing our food system to help mitigate and adapt to climate change. Social media campaign reaching more than 15 million young people. Over 250 activists and more than 20 influencers joined the project as Food Wave Ambassadors. More than 60 000 people participated in 30 street actions (collaborative cooking sessions, social lunches and dinners, art performances, urban horticulture and self-productions workshops). | Municipality of Milan | CDM | 17 EU countries | dec-19 | Nov-23 | https://foodwave.eu/ | ||||||||||||
30 | DEAR | Ento-Economy | Enhancing food and nutrition security through promotion of edible insects value chain in Eastern Africa | Food innovations, technology | * | WP3 WP4 | To contribute to addressing malnutrition in general through developing sustainable insect-based value chains for improved food and nutrition security in Kenya and Uganda. | Cricket and grasshopper farming models have been successfully established in Kenya and Uganda with farmers being trained and supported to take up the venture as a business. Crickets and grasshoppers rearing models and nutritious, safe insect-based products have been developed and tested locally satisfactorily. subsequent work is required to prove commercial viability and up-scale them for commercialization of the innovations in order to satisfy the projected high demand for insect-based foods. | Jomo Kenyata University of Agriculture and Technology | - | Kenya, Uganda | Kenya, Uganda | Sep-18 | Aug-21 | https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/leap4fnssa-projects/49 https://www.leap-agri.com/?page_id=307 | ||||||||||||
31 | FOODAFRICA | Improving Food Security in West and East Africa | Food and Nutrition Security | * | WP1 | To provide new knowledge and tools for researchers, decision makers and local farmers to improve local food security. The overall objective of FoodAfrica is to reduce poverty and improve food security in Western and East Africa. | Enhancing the capacity of local researchers and research institutes and by producing new knowledge and tools for researchers, decision makers and farmers to improve local food security. The emphasis is on high quality research that produces concrete outcomes to benefit a wide range of beneficiaries in the food supply chain and other relevant stakeholders. | Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) | - | Benin; Ghana; Cameroon; Kenya; Senegal; Uganda | Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Uganda | Apr-12 | Dec-18 | https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/leap4fnssa-projects/77 http://www.luke.fi/foodafrica | |||||||||||||
32 | FNSSA | FOODLAND | FOOD and Local, Agricultural, and Nutritional Diversity | Food innovations, technology | *** | WP3 WP4WP6 | To enhance the diversity of food production and consumption in six African countries displaying different stages of the nutrition transition. Specific objectives addressing the organizational, technological, and nutritional needs of the local African food systems: - to detect behaviour and preferences of consumers and producers; - to develop and implement organizational innovations, - to develop, test, and validate (open) technological innovations in laboratory and in the field; - to disseminate knowledge of solutions towards malnutrition reduction and innovations. | FOODLAND will empower smallholder farmers and food operators, will foster nutrition-responsive and sustainable agro-biodiversity, will reinforce the productivity and resilience of food supply chains, and will create new market opportunities at both the local and global scales, thereby encouraging the flourishing of rural communities. | 14 Food Hubs; 12 prototypes for crop and fish farming and food processing systems that will deliver 17 novel food products | University of Bologna | - | Ethiopia; Kenya; Morocco; Tanzania, Tunisia; Uganda | Kenya, Tunisia, Uganda | Sep-20 | Aug-24 | https://foodland-africa.eu/ https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/leap4fnssa-projects/215 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/862802 | |||||||||||
33 | cd | FoodShift 2030 | The future of food is low-carbon, circular & plant based! | Food innovations, technology | ** | WP2 WP3 WP4 | To launch an ambitious citizen-driven transition of the European food system towards a low carbon circular future, including a shift to less meat and more plant based diets. To ensure access to safe, healthy, nutritious and affordable food that can nourish our communities as well as our planet. | FoodSHIFT 2030 is putting citizens at the centre of food systems change in a novel approach to scale-up, multiply and share the best food innovations European communities have to offer. It supports food system transition and fosters market uptake of new food system innovations in the participating city-regions. | Nine citizen-driven FoodSHIFT Accelerator Labs and twenty-seven FoodSHIFT Enabler Labs. Acceleration of food system innovations and assessment of their effects on a set of FoodSHIFT Indicators. Co-creation of strategies and advisory plans for citizen-driven food system governance | University of Copenhagen | 12 European countries | H20 | https://foodshift2030.eu/ | ||||||||||||||
34 | FT | AfricanWomen | Women in Africa | Gender | * | WP1 WP6 | To identify policy levers to address the problem of domestic violence in Africa. | Rates of domestic violence and the relative risk of premature death for women are higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in any other region. Yet we know remarkably little about the economic forces, incentives and constraints that drive discrimination against women in this region. | Université de Namur ASBL - Belgium | Aug-18 | Jan-25 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/759294 | |||||||||||||||
35 | ft | Becoming Men | Becoming Men: Performing responsible masculinities in contemporary urban Africa | Gender | * | WP1 WP6 | To shed light on the scientific, political, and economic projects that shape African masculinities. | This anthropological study examines the reconfiguration of masculinities in urban Africa over the last 30 years. Focusing on how practices and discourses of empowerment and equality shape male subjectivities, this study builds upon a significant body of nuanced research on masculinities in Africa. | UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM | - | Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania | Kisumu (Kenya); South Africa, Tanzania | Sep-15 | Feb-21 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/647314 | ||||||||||||
36 | FoodTrails | Building pathways towards Food 2030-led urban food policies | Urban food policies | *** | WP2 WP3 WP4 WP6 | To translate in Europe the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact’s collective commitment towards integrated urban food policies, into measurable and long-term progress towards sustainable food systems. To help ensure that all EU citizens have access to affordable, appropriate and healthy food. | The idea is to create CRFS to foster the development of resilient and sustainable food systems within urban centres. The four priority areas of the FOOD 2030 European research framework (nutrition and healthy diets, climate and the environment, circularity and resource efficiency and innovation and empowerment of communities) will be addressed. | Creation of City Region Food Systems; Each city runs a pilot project "Living Lab", a space for work, dialogue and collaboration to foster innovation, connect local key stakeholders, and collect evidence to support urban policy change in food; Collaboration among cities and researchers to encourage knowledge sharing, replication and scaling up of best practices. | Municipality of Milan | CDM | 11 EU cities | H20 | https://foodtrails.milanurbanfoodpolicypact.org/ | ||||||||||||||
37 | FOSC | Food System and Climate: assessing the impact of climate change on food and nutrition security and designing more sustainable and resilient food systems in Europe and beyond | AU-EU partnership | * | WP4 WP5 | To create a strong and effective trans-national, European-African-Latin America and the Caribbean research and innovation network and improve the coordination and synergising of national, international and EU research programmes relevant to food security under climate change evolution. | Climate change will affect food security: food availability, food accessibility, food utilisation and food systems stability. Designing sustainable food processes under climate change evolution is complex, encompassing many sectors. FOSC will assess climate change-related risks for food value chains, reduce volatility in agri-food production, and develop novel approaches to valorise side streams and reduce food waste. | French National Research Agency (ANR) | Multicountry | Burkina Faso; Kenya; South Africa | Oct-19 | Sep-24 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/862555 | ||||||||||||||
38 | FT | FUSILLI | Fostering the Urban food System transformation through Innovative Living Labs Implementation | Food and Nutrition Security | ** | WP3 WP4 | To overcome barriers regarding the development and the implementation of integrated, systemic food policies that support the transition towards sustainable food systems in urban, peri-urban and nearby rural areas. | FUSILLI tackles the challenge of food and nutrition security in urban, peri-urban, and rural environments in a sustainable manner. FUSILLI empowers its 12 Living Labs to integrate food in the cities’ transformation pathways towards a healthy, sustainable, secure, and inclusive urban future. The cities will be empowered to implement innovative and personalised policies and actions, placing citizens in the heart of the process. | 12 innovating Living Labs (one per city), as an open innovation ecosystem with the objective to implement different innovative actions through all stages of the food chain, including production and processing, distribution and logistics, consumption, food loss and waste, as well as governance. | Fundación Cartif | 12 EU cities | H2020 | https://fusilli-project.eu/ | ||||||||||||||
39 | cd/fn | FoodCLIC | Integrated urban FOOD policies – developing sustainability Co-benefits, spatial Linkages, social Inclusion and sectoral Connections to transform food systems in city-regions | Urban food policies | *** | WP2 WP3 WP4 | FoodCLIC will create more sustainable urban food environments by building strong science–policy–practice interfaces (i.e. food policy networks) and experimenting with innovative approaches and business models in Living Labs across eight European city-regions. | All citizens should be able to fill their plate with nutritious, safe, sustainable and affordable food. However, Europe’s urban areas are struggling to ensure availability and consumption of healthy, sustainable food among deprived and vulnerable groups. Activities will be supported by an innovative conceptual framework (the CLIC), which emphasises sustainability co-benefits, spatial linkages, social inclusion and sectoral connectivity. FoodCLIC will also support multi-stakeholder engagement, including deprived and vulnerable groups. | VU Amsterdam | ICLEI Africa | South Africa | Sep-22 | Feb-27 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101060717 | |||||||||||||
40 | cd/fn | Healthy Food Africa | Improving nutrition in Africa by strenghtening the diversity, sustainability, resilience and connectivity of food systems | Food and Nutrition Security | *** | WP2 WP3 WP4 | To improve nutrition in Africa by strengthening the diversity, sustainability, resilience and connectivity of food systems. To increase the range and quality of food products for a healthy diet, as well as improve access to nutritious food. | African agri-food systems are facing numerous challenges related to climate change, rapid population growth and urbanization. Both food production and consumption patterns must change in order to provide access to nutritious food while counteracting social inequality, environmental degradation, food loss and inadequate waste management.The project is a collaborative effort by 17 partners in Europe and Africa. The context-specific insights gained through the localized Food System Labs will be analysed through five thematic focuses: healthy nutrition, sustainable food production, food packagin and safety, food chain governance, innovative food procuts. | 10 localized Food System Labs: each Food System Lab brings together social entrepreneurs, farmers, activists, businesses and policy makers to tackle specific challenges in the local food system. | Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) | APHRC, Hivos | Ghana; Benin; Ethiopia; Uganda; Kenya; Zambia | Kisumu (Kenya), Uganda | Jun-20 | Nov-24 | https://healthyfoodafrica.eu/ https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/862740 | |||||||||||
41 | Food4Cities | Exploring food system transformation in rapidly changing Afican cities | Urban Food Systems | *** | WP1 | To promote sustainable, inclusive and nutrition-secure city food systems by developing knowledge and tools for local and national development planning. | The project has a strong conceptual foundation in food systems analysis and modelling. It employs a range of scientific methodologies such as spatial analysis, systems-dynamics and value-chain modelling, trade-offs in bundles of ecosystem services, integrated social, economic and ecological assessment, scenario planning, and transformative pathways analysis. the technical science is embedded in a knowledge co-production and participatory planning process to promote uptake of the information by end users and scale impact of the science. | A systemic approach to planning for city food systems is adopted, which sees multiple sectors and levels of governance cooperating around response strategies; City planning and decision making is supported by science-based decision-support tools that consider city food dynamics, feedbacks to and from the broader environment, | VU Amsterdam | Uganda (Kampala), South Africa (Cape Town) | Cape Town, Uganda | Sep-18 | aug-21 | https://leap.iamb.it/?page_id=317 https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/leap4fnssa-projects/56 | |||||||||||||
42 | cd/fn | Hungry Cities Partnership | Urban Food Systems | ** | WP4WP6 | To provide innovative solutions to the challenge of building sustainable cities and policies and programs that promote food security in migrant origin and destination communities and corridors. | The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP) is an international network of partner organizations which focuses on the relationships between rapid urbanization, urban food systems and migration in the Global South. The HCP conducts collaborative research, training and advocacy. | Balsillie School of International Affairs (Ca) | India, South Africa, Jamaica, Mozambique, Mexico, Kenya, China | Cape Town, Nairobi | https://hungrycities.net/ | Funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. | |||||||||||||||
43 | cd | INCITIS-FOOD | INtegrated and Circular Technologies for Sustainable city region FOOD systems in Africa | Urban Food Systems | *** | WP2 WP3 WP4 | To improve food and nutrition security in African city regions and reduce the food-system-related environmental footprint while contributing to circularity. | INCiTiS-FOOD will co-create circular agri-food technologies, practices, and business models centering upon soilless crop farming, recirculating aquaculture systems, and insect farming. These circular agri-food technologies have been considered suitable for the context of African cities because they do not require great access to land, water, or other resources allowing Africa to thrive. | Interdisciplinary research, integrated best-fit technologies, stakeholder led action, capacity-building, research-practitioner-policy, collaborative engagement, and Europe-Africa partnership will be foundation for achieving those goals. | University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich (UniBwM) | Kenya; Nigeria; Ghana; Sierra Leone; Cameroon; Gabon | Kenya | Jan-23 | dec-26 | https://incitis-food.eu/ https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101083790 | ||||||||||||
44 | cd | InnovAfrica | Innovations in Technology, Institutional and Extension Approaches towards Sustainable Agriculture and enhanced Food and Nutritional Security in Africa | Food and Nutrition Security | * | WP3 WP4 | To boost food and nutrition security for small-scale farmers, by introducing sustainable agriculture intensification systems supported by multi-actor platforms and extension and advisory services. | Food and nutrition security (FNS) remains a challenge for Africa, despite efforts made in agricultural research and extension in the past. This may be attributed to poor implementation and inadequate transfer of technologies and knowledge to end users. | Increased productivity and income for smallholder farmers, especially women, while reducing negative environmental impacts. | NIBIO - NORSK INSTITUTT FOR BIOOKONOMI (Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research) | 6 African countries | Kenya, South Africa | Jun-17 | Nov-21 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/727201 | ||||||||||||
45 | cd | JOLISAA | JOint Learning about Innovation Systems in African Agriculture | Agriculture | * | WP3 | The JOLISAA project aims to increase understanding of agricultural innovation systems focusing on smallholders’ livelihoods and the articulation of local/traditional and global knowledge. | Lessons learnt about past and ongoing experiences with agricultural/rural innovation in East, Southern and West Africa will be synthesised by combining joint case-study assessment with capacity-strengthening and networking at various scales. | Cirad | Cirad | Kenya, South Africa | Benin, Kenya, South Africa | Feb-10 | Jul-13 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/245319 | ||||||||||||
46 | cd/FN | LEAP4FNSSA | Support to the implementation of the Long-term EU-AU Research and Innovation Partnership for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture | AU-EU partnership | *** | WP5 | The general objective of LEAP4FNSSA is to establish a sustainable structure, or ‘Platform’, for the efficient and coherent implementation of the AU-EU Research and Innovation Partnership as described in the FNSSA Roadmap. Under the aegis of the HLPD and its Bureau, and by building upon related projects such as RINEA, CAAST-Net. Three specific objectives: - Increase the synergies and coherence between actors, research and innovation projects, initiatives and programmes; - Develop a learning environment and a large knowledge base; - Establish a long term and sustainable governance and funding mechanism for the Platform. | LEAP4FNSSA will build on a large consortium of experienced partners and implement a methodology based on 3 principles: long-term impact, relevance of the outputs to the HLPD, and innovative actions. Long-term impact of the CSA relates to its main objective to enable and catalyse the transformation of the existing AU EU FNSSA Partnership into a bi-continental Platform for collaboration, organised along a Knowledge and Management Communication Framework. | Innovative actions are foreseen to run the Platform efficiently throught e.g. the development of a new approach to information mapping, text and data mining, and testing of multistakeholder alliances at a regional level and the mobilisation of actors to manage research and innovation programming in a 4-steps management cycle. | Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) | Cirad | Nov-18 | Oct-22 | https://www.leap4fnssa.eu/ https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/817663 | |||||||||||||
47 | cd/FN | LEAP-AGRI | A long term EU-Africa research and innovation partnership on food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture | AU-EU partnership | *** | WP5 | The objective of LEAP-AGRI is to fulfil the ambition of the Europe Africa dialogue in Science and Technology (the HLPD) to launch a joint flagship initiative on its chosen priority area: Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA). This partnership will increase investments in research and innovation through coordinated bi-regional (EU/Africa) mechanisms aimed at reducing fragmentation. | 30 partners, including 24 Ministries and Funding Agencies (Group of Funders) from 18 European and African countries decide to join their forces and funding to build an ERA-Net Cofund project with a financial support of the European Commission. The project has two pillars, (i) funding R&I projects on FNSSA, and (ii) Feeding the long-term EU- AU partnership on FNSSA. | A joint call for proposals for collaborative R&I projects between European and African partners; The identification and test of innovative instruments for alignment and collaboration in research, innovation, capacity strengthening and infrastructure development, especially targeting the implication of foundations, development agencies, private sector, and civil-society organizations. | French National Research Agency (ANR) | IRD, CIRAD | Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey | Dec-16 | Nov-22 | https://www.leap-agri.com/ https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/leap4fnssa-projects/31 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/727715 | ||||||||||||
48 | DEAR | Map your meal | Food Systems | * | WP6 | To raise the awareness of young people in Europe about global development issues. | It enhanced young people understanding of the interconnectedness and the interdependence of their very own lifestyles with the problems and challenges in the Global South. To engage them it focused on the global food system, highlighting its role in global economic, political and environmental crises. | A mobile application about global food systems. Interactive displays, photo exhibitions, workshops and public discussions around food issues, including those linked to ice cream ingredients, helped people to understand how global food systems work. Outreach and education activities on food supply chains mobilised young people and other partners around Europe. | The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics | 5 EU countries | Jan-15 | dec-17 | https://dearprogramme.eu/project/map-your-meal/ | ||||||||||||||
49 | fnssa | NOURICITY | Partnerships for healthy diets and nutrition in urban African food systems | Urban Food Systems | *** | WP3, WP4 | To impact the nutrition of the urban poor in Africa. It aims at investigating the structure and dynamics of urban food systems in Africa (including rural-urban food value chains) and how they interact with food consumption and behavior in determining the health and nutrition status of the urban population. | The project gathered and analised missing evidence on African urban food systems (UFS) to outline a partnership concept for effective interventions in the food environment of the urban poor in a participatory process. The project described the systemic drivers of food choices and the household and individual food choices. It assessed the impacts of systemic and individual drivers of food choices on people's actual consumption and nutrition outcomes. Devise and test policy scenarios. | Mapping of the formal and informal urban food sectors , their interactions and rural linkages; tracking urban food products along their value chain back to their sources. | University of Bonn | UoG | Ghana (Accra), Uganda (Kampala), South Africa (Cape Town) | Ghana; Uganda; Cape Town | Sep-18 | aug-21 | http://nouricity.org/ https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/leap4fnssa-projects/55 | |||||||||||
50 | cd | PAEPARD | Building up a platform for African-European Partnership on Agricultural Research for Development | AU-EU partnership | ** | WP5 | To enhance collaboration among the European and African ARD stakeholders by enabling mutual learning and knowledge sharing. It will also increase the number and efficiency of joint research projects for African ARD aimed at achieving the MDGs. | Due to the poor performance of its agricultural sector mainly, Africa is well behind schedule for achieving the MDG 1 of halving poverty. Agriculture is a key sector for sustainable development in Africa (MDG 7) and Agricultural research for development (ARD) has a major role to play to reverse this deteriorating African food security and poverty situation. The project will strengthen the role of different types of stakeholders (farmers organisations, non-government organisations, private sector, consumers) as key partners. | FORUM FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN AFRICA | Apr-07 | Sep-08 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/43657 | |||||||||||||||
51 | cd | PROIntensAfrica | Towards a long-term Africa-EU partnership to raise sustainable food and nutrition security in Africa | AU-EU partnership | * | WP3 | Focus on the improvement of the food and nutrition security and the livelihoods of African farmers by exploring and exploiting the diversity of pathways to sustainable intensification of African agro-food systems. | PROIntensAfrica intends to develop a proposal for a long term research and innovation partnership between Europe and Africa. It formulates a research and innovation agenda, identifying the domains in need for further research to realize the potential of African food systems. A variety of pathways leads to sustainable intensification of African food systems. Different pathways are advocated in literature. | PROIntensAfrica consortium is convinced that exciting new pathways can be opened, and that combining elements of different systems will yield innovative systems that are optimally adapted to specific contexts. | WAGENINGEN RESEARCH | Burkina Faso, South Africa, Uganda | Apr-15 | Mar-17 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/652671 | |||||||||||||
52 | cd | RINEA | Research and Innovation Network for Europe and Africa | AU-EU partnership | ** | WP5 | In response to the present objectives of the EU-Africa partnership in science, technology and innovation, and addressing the STI priorities of the 2014 EU-Africa Summit, RINEA addresses three specific and complementary objectives. | 1. Strengthening the quality and quantity of partnerships between research and innovation actors in EU Member states, in Associated Countries and in countries in Africa; 2. Encouraging transnational coordination of programmes and policies for international cooperation in STI for greater coherence, joint ownership and resource efficiency, 3. Supporting and enriching formal and informal processes of bi-regional STI policy dialogue between the EU and Africa | DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV | Burkina Faso; South Africa | Mar-15 | May-18 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/645809 | GERMAN CENTRE FOR AERONAUTICS AND SPACE EV | |||||||||||||
53 | cd | SAFE FOODS | Promoting food safety through a new integrated risk analysis approach for foods | Food innovations, technology | * | WP4 | The proposed research attempts to improve current risk analysis practices for foods produced by different breeding approaches and production practices deploying high and low input systems. | This Integrated Project addresses the issue of how consumer confidence in consumer protection and risk analysis can be restored and strengthened. | STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK - Wageningen (research) | South Africa | Apr-04 | Jun-08 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/506446 | AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION | |||||||||||||
54 | fnssa | SAFOODS | Strengthening African FOOD Systems in the face of climate change and food insecurity | Climate Change | * | WP3 WP4 | To enhance the resilience of food systems through developing adaptation strategies. To assess climate change-related risks on fruits & vegetables food systems and to co-design innovations with food chain stakeholders. | By 2050 West African countries will face rapid demographic growth and urbanization while stronger climate-related constraints on food systems; hence there is an urgent need to propose ways to make food systems more resilient. Despite their importance for health, fruits and vegetables are poorly considered in most food security and climate change studies. With an emphasis on poor urban consumers. | Two complementary strategies will be explored: 1) the reduction of Food Loss and Waste (FLW); and, 2) the diversification of both cropping systems and foodsheds. | Cirad | Cirad | Ivory Coast; Senegal | Senegal | Jul-21 | Jun-24 | https://www.foscera.net/en/foscera/Projects/SAFOODS.htm | |||||||||||
55 | cd/FN | EdiCitNet | Edible Cities Network Integrating Edible City Solutions for social resilient and sustainably productive cities | Urban, peri-urban agriculture | ** | WP3 WP4 | EdiCitNet will leverage the substantial benefits that ECS effect today at local level and catalyse their replication EU- and world-wide by launching a fully open and participatory network of cities, empowering their inhabitants by a common methodology | The systemic use of urban landscapes for food production is a major step towards more sustainable, liveable and healthier cities. A multitude of initiatives around the World, however fragmented, are prospering, forming a global movement of Edible Cities. Their products, activities and services – the Edible City Solutions (ECS) - empower local communities to overcome social problems by their inclusive and participatory dynamics and to create new green businesses and jobs, and thereby generating local economic growth and fostering social cohesion. | Living Labs, Knowledge transfer to 7 dedicated Follower Cities | Humboldt University of Berlin | - | Tunisia; Togo; Cuba; Uruguay; Netherlands; Norway; UK; Germany; Spain | Tunisia | Sep-18 | Aug-23 | https://www.edicitnet.com/ https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/776665 https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/leap4fnssa-projects/176 | |||||||||||
56 | ft | SchoolFood4Change | SchoolFood4Change | School canteens | * | WP3WP4 | To make school meals enjoyable and healthy for both our children and our planet. | Food, and school food in particular, is essential to grow, learn and thrive. School meals have always constituted a very welcome daily break for many pupils. Nevertheless, food always evolves over time and school food is no different. SchoolFood4Change builds on what has been achieved, asking for more vegetables, lentils, nuts, diversity on our plates and more democracy, education and inclusion in our societies. SchoolFood4Change therefore supports change agents who are spreading a new food culture from the plates in school canteens to the plates in families, workplaces and all of society. | Shaping and transforming the eating habits of over 600,000 children in 12 countries | ICLEI | ICLEI | 12 EU countries | https://schoolfood4change.eu/ | ||||||||||||||
57 | cd | SEACRIFOG | Supporting EU-African Cooperation on Research Infrastructures for Food Security and Greenhouse Gas Observations | AU-EU partnership | * | WP4 | To increase coherence and interoperability between infrastructures in Europe and Africa, to enhance technical competence, science awareness and life-long learning in Africa in order to facilitate the use of research results for evidence-based policy making, and to identify knowledge gaps for future research directions. | African societies face growing global change risks, with rapidly changing patterns of human settlements and intensity of use of ecosystem services. At the same time, climate variability and climate change trends are intensifying stress on the ecosystems that ensure environmental security, both locally (e.g. ecosystem services), regionally (e.g. sustainable development options) and internationally (e.g. carbon sequestration). Approaches that can address this challenge in an integrated and multidisciplinary way are urgently needed in many places in Africa | JOHANN HEINRICH VON THUENEN-INSTITUT, BUNDESFORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER LAENDLICHE RAEUME, WALD UND FISCHEREI (research) | Kenya, South Africa | Mar-17 | Aug-20 | https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/leap4fnssa-projects/69 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/730995 | FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR RURAL AREAS, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES | |||||||||||||
58 | cd | STAFF | International seminar on traditional african fermented foods | Food innovations, technology | ** | WP3 WP4 | Holding an international seminar on traditional African fermented foods with the aim of establishing and formalising a research network in this area. It is also aimed at establishing state of the art in African fermented foods and defining research priorities. | Indigenous fermented foods form a very substantial part of the diet in many parts of Africa. African research institutions generally lack the required research capability to upgrade these traditional methods to levels consistent with modern food safety requirements and quality standards. | WORLD ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS | Jul-02 | Sep-02 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/ICA4-CT-2002-50015 | |||||||||||||||
59 | cd/fn | SUNRAY | Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in the Years to come | Nutrition | * | WP4 | To produce a new, sustainable nutrition research agenda for sub-Saharan Africa | 1) Future landscape: Emergence of new nutritional challenges due to changes in the environmental landscape. 2) Sustainable and broad-based solutions: Integration of nutrition research within other sectors to ensure sustainable solutions. 3) African centre of gravity: Identification of research opportunities and constraints by African institutions. 4) Broad stakeholder involvement: Strengthening of the link between research and action. 5) Political engagement: Engagement of policy-makers to ensure political buy-in and subsequent action. | Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp | IRD | Benin; Tanzania; South Africa | South Africa | Jan-11 | Dec-12 | https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/leap4fnssa-projects/3 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/266080 | ||||||||||||
60 | UB | Sustainable Food in Urban Communities | Developing low-carbon and resource-efficient urban food systems by focusing on three areas: growing, delivering and enjoying food. | Urban, peri-urban agriculture | ** | WP3 WP4 | To grow fruit and vegetable in the city (gardens, parks, rooftops, balconies, derelict lands) safeguarding & improving fertility of lands; To deliver food stuffs in a more sustainble and less carbon intensive way; To enjoy more sustainable food (local products, without pesticides, seasonal and fresh products) while improving diets (reducing the share of animal protein and processed foods), using products that meet environmental and sustainability criteria (certification) and preventing waste (food and its packaging). | The project will focus on developing low-carbon and resource-efficient urban food systems. Indeed, the food sector alone accounts for over 30% of global consumer energy demand and produces over 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions (FAO 2011). The urban population tends to be out of touch with agricultural production, and the city food culture increasingly moves towards fast food, processed foods, distributed by large centralised supermarket chains. | Brussels | https://archive.urbact.eu/sustainable-food-urban-communities-complete-overview | |||||||||||||||||
61 | FNSSA | URBAL | Urban Driven Innovations for Sustainable Food Systems | Impact evaluation | ** | WP3 WP4 | Urbal is an international project that uses participatory research to develop and test a holistic methodology to map the impact pathways that go from urban innovations to all dimension of sustainability of food systems. Urbal’s goal is that this methodology becomes a decision-making tool for practitioners and policymakers, as a way to provide a common overview of innovation impact pathways and how they evolve. | Mapping impact pathways will allow Urbal to develop a methodology that describes how innovations take place in terms of knowledge and material flows, networks, challenges and opportunities. The Urban Food Innovation Labs are the centrepiece of our research project as the sites where the methodology will be tested. The UFILs are located in eight cities including both the Global South and Global North. | CIRAD | Cirad | 8 international cities | Cape Town | ongoing | https://www.urbalfood.org/ | W4 members participated in an URBAL webinar. This methodology could be used to assess the WP4 interventions. | ||||||||||||
62 | ft | INDIGENOVEG | Networking to promote the sustainable production and marketing of indigenous vegetables through urban and peri-urban agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. | Urban, peri-urban agriculture | * | WP3 WP4 | To create a network of leading EU & African researchers to promote production of IV varieties in urban & peri-urban agriculture (UPA). | Indigenous vegetables (IV) play an important role in the African diet, economy & environment. However, they have not featured significantly in the research agendas of international or local organisations, which have tended to focus on improved exotic varieties. | BANGOR UNIVERSITY - UK | Kenya, Uganda, South Africa | Jan-06 | Jun-08 | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/15101 | ||||||||||||||
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