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Food insecurity and malnutrition, once restricted mainly to rural areas, are spreading rapidly in Africa’s expanding cities. Conventional production-based responses from the agricultural sector will...

Africa’s cities are expanding, with adverse consequences for food and nutrition security of an increasing share of their population. In urban Africa, malnutrition is a complex issue related to factors...

Rural food value chains (FVC) in sub-Saharan Africa experience various challenges to implement food securing innovations. In the framework of the ERA-net co-fund strategy the European Commission...

The overall objective of SPEAR is to improve the livelihoods of small-scale livestock and poultry farmers by improving the productivity and quality of local livestock and poultry value chains (LPVCs) in Senegal, Ghana...

This project aims to contribute to addressing malnutrition in general through developing sustainable insect-based value chains for improved food and nutrition security in Kenya and Uganda. Insects contribute...

The VITAPALM project is targeted at laying the foundations for breeding new varieties of African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) that produce non-refined crude oil with improved nutritional qualities...

Nutrition-sensitive agriculture and diverse diets have been identified as strategies for improving nutrition. Little is known about the interlinkages between consumption and production strategies, and the preconditions and incentives...

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...

Due to the poor performance of its agricultural sector mainly, Africa is well behind schedule for achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG 1) of halving poverty by 2015...

The main aim of the Project is to contribute to the quality of the Euro-Mediterranean research area, with a particular focus on the bi-regional Euro-Mediterranean S&T cooperation, research & innovation, policy dialogue and cooperation...