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First whole-of-CGIAR Impact Report shares results from 2022–2024

Food loss and waste (FLW) is a critical issue in East Africa, where a significant share of fresh produce is lost across the value chain—from farm to market. These losses not only contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, but also represent a waste of natural resources and an abundance of missed economic opportunities. Stimulating investments in businesses that contribute to the reduction of FLW can therefore greatly contribute to more sustainable food systems.

Food Losses and Waste

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Rwanda

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Tanzania

Food Loss and Waste

Circularity

Investing in Cold Chain Solutions

Scaling agri-food innovations isn’t just about going big—it’s about doing it responsibly.
This special issue explores inclusive, sustainable, and systemic approaches to scaling
that tackle unintended consequences, promote equity, and achieve real, long-term
impact in an efficient way.

Call to submit a paper: Special Issue on Responsible Scaling for Transformational Impact

The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Strategy and Action Plan (2026-2035) was adopted by an Extraordinary Summit of the African Union held in Kampala, Uganda, in January 2025. The associated Kampala CAADP Declaration on "Building Resilient Agrifood Systems in Africa" outlines a 10-year plan to transform Africa's agrifood systems. It will build on the successes and deepen the progress achieved after two decades of CAADP implementation, during which Africa significantly improved in economic and agricultural growth, poverty reduction, nutrition outcomes, and agricultural trade expansion. The Kampala CAADP Declaration will come into effect on January 1, 2026.

Food Systems : UN Stocktaking Moment

Africa

Policy

Food Systems

Nutrition

Trade

Agriculture

The CAADP Kampala Declaration: Building Resilient Food Systems

The side session titled "Financing the Future of Food" at FINAS 2025, co-organized by Netherlands Food Partnership, Rabobank, Equity Bank and Foresight4Food, focused on food systems thinking and the role of finance in co-driving food system transformation.

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Food Systems Transformation

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Financing the Future of Food @ FINAS 2025

CoolMove, presented at the FINAS 2025 side session, by Netherlands Food Partnership, Rabobank and Enviu, addressed the urgent issue of food loss and waste (FLW) through financing cold storage solutions in East Africa.

CoolMove - Investment opportunities in Food Loss & Waste reduction through financing cold storage

At CGIAR Science Week 2025 (co-hosted by CGIAR and KALRO) and held this April in Nairobi, partnerships were not just the theme of a session, they were the heartbeat of the conversations throughout the week. In a world facing interconnected food, land and water challenges, it’s clear that no single organisation can go it alone. Partnerships, when done right, are the bridge between science and impact. One of the side events, co-hosted by the UK-CGIAR Centre, NL-CGIAR Strategic Partnership and CGIAR, asked a crucial question: How can we form and sustain partnerships that truly work for science, for development, and for the people who need solutions most?

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Turning Partnerships into Impact: Lessons from NL-CGIAR & UK-CGIAR at CGIAR Science Week 2025

The 49th edition of the Agriculture for Development of the Tropical Agriculture Association International (TAA International) has published a special issue on Biodiversity and Food Systems. This edition is guest-edited by Dr. Elizabeth Warham.

Ag4Dev49: Special issue on biodiversity and food systems

On April 4th, 2025, over 50 financial and agri-food sector stakeholders gathered at the Movenpick Hotel in Nairobi for Kenya’s first-ever learning event on “Financing the Future of Food.” Organized by the Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP) in collaboration with Rabobank Kenya, Equity Bank, and Foresight4Food, this event marked the launch of a broader initiative to for a shared learning trajectory on the role of financial actors in food systems transformation.

Financing the Future of Food - Learning Event Kenya

Nutrition 4 Growth Paris 2025: an energy bar for joint action

Sustainable Healthy Diets

France

Nutrition Security

Food Nutrition Security

Take aways from the Nutrition for Growth Summit Paris 2025

How can partnerships help improve food systems? This blog shares insights from the Food Systems Countdown Initiative on key interactions between food system indicators and how collaboration can support positive change.

Tracking Progress, Managing Interactions & Strengthening Partnerships: Insights from the Food Systems Countdown Initiative

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E-course on Food Systems 2025

Working with Informality

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FORQLAB Food Losses Kenya

Saline Water and Food Systems

Insects for Feed

Food Systems Innovation Challenge

Global Partnership for the True Price of Food

Food Systems in global climate policy

Dialogues and Partnerships with FAO, IFAD, WFP and CGIAR

Coalition on smallholder farmers digital ecosystems

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With the increase in demand for milk and dairy products in the coming decade, both in quantity and quality, dairy offers very good prospects for both entrepreneurial smallholders as well as for medium and large-scale farmers in developing countries. At this moment, but also in the coming years, smallholders will produce the bulk of the milk. Sustained fair inclusion of commercial smallholders in the growing formal dairy sector will only be possible if they meet volume and quality requirements, through well-organized bulking and chilling activities and further improvement of productivity and seasonal stability. This implies that more work needs to be done on the development and realization of inclusive business models, either by farmer organizations, progressive processors, other value chain actors, or blends of these.

The dairy sector in East Africa can reach sustainable growth through the adoption of inclusive business models (Makoni et al., 2014). Innovative approaches to dairy sector development are emerging where inclusive business models are coupled with demand-driven, market-led support systems and public-private partnerships (Rademaker et al., 2017).

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Inclusive Dairy Business Models in East Africa

This papers describes the Ethiopian forage sub-sector. It covers a wide range of aspects, from technical aspects such as
available forage species, quality, seasonality, preservation, seeds, planting material, fertiliser use, mechanisation, inputs
and services, to more institutional aspects, such as the forage market, education and training, environmental footprint, and
policy framework. The paper provides recommendations aimed at enhancing the availability of quality forages, especially
for the Ethiopian dairy sector. The report is part of Theme 2: Forages and Nutrition of the Netherlands East African Dairy
Partnership project (NEADAP), an initiative of the Dutch government for learning and sharing amongst different dairy
sectors and projects in East Africa.

Sustainable Forage Production in Ethiopia

These Papers describe the current situation of Kenyas forage sub-sector and give recommendations for sustainable intensification of forage production. As regards the current situation, it reports on available forage species and their quality, seasonality, preservation, forage seeds and planting material, fertilizer use, mechanisation, inputs and services, the forage market, education and training, innovations, sustainable forage production, and policies and regulations affecting the forage sub-sector. The paper further gives directions and recommendations to intensify forage production and enhance the availability of quality forages, to drive an environmentally sustainable dairy sector towards increased productivity and enhanced competitiveness. This is an output of Theme 2: Forages and Nutrition of Dairy Cows of the Netherlands East African Dairy Partnership project (NEADAP). NEADAP is an initiative led by the Netherlands Government aimed at learning and sharing amongst different dairy sectors and projects in East Africa.

Sustainable Forage Production in Kenya

TEST Food & Biodiversity in Action: learning from 10 journeys to sustainable futures

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Mariëlle Karssenberg

Roseline Remans

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