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In Africa, food systems transformation is required to ensure adequate incomes for producers and enable access to affordable, healthy diets while managing increasing food demand from growing...

The Brief first reviews the main drivers of food system transformation in Africa. They include sustained economic recovery and rising incomes, rapid urbanization, steady population...

This Brief focusses primarily on the role of science, technology and innovation (STI), and including research and development (R&D), education and extension, in transforming the food systems of Asia and the Pacific. The Brief...

This report presents methodological aspects and the results of a horizon scanning exercise where the text mining capacities of the Joint Research Centre’s "Tool for Innovation Monitoring" were harnessed...

Rice is cultivated throughout Africa in a vast array of environments. Crop growth modelling at AfricaRice seeks to develop an understanding of genotype, management and environment interactions to inform research...

Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition...

The EU-Africa High Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) on Science, Technology and Innovation was adopted at the 2nd Africa-EU Summit in Tripoli in 2010 as an important element of the Joint Africa-EU...

Proposals shall assess and deliver better nutrition performance of African farming systems, strengthening the agro-biodiversity (and integrated aquaculture systems) and food diversity. They shall...

Research on healthy foods and diets focuses on the nutritional needs and the impact of food on physiological functions and physical and mental performance. The activities aim at studying the links between diet...

Research includes all stages: food design, packaging, process design and control, waste reduction and by-product valorisation. It addresses critical issues such as affordable...