This storybook celebrates the achievements of the BRIDGE project (2018-2023), which empowered 82,000 Ethiopian dairy farming households. It goes beyond increased milk production and market access, focusing on the human stories of resilience and community building.

NEADAP Dairy in East Africa

Ethiopia

Dairy

Storybook Bridge dairy programme Ethiopia now published!

Sub-Saharan Africa is confronted with complex interrelated problems of affordability and accessibility to feed and food for aquaculture, livestock, poultry and pig production for the larger share of the population. Moreover, drought, flooding and increasing commodity prices are accelerating the needs for more resilient food systems and strategies supporting trends of transitioning. Making use of locally cultivated insects and microalgae in feed supplied in the markets will not only enhance production potentials for local feed producers and small-scale farmers demanding the feed but will also provide high-quality affordable products for low-income consumers in Kenya and Uganda, if arrangements are implemented that will support such developments.

Insects for Feed

Kenya

Uganda

East Africa

Insects

The Protein Transition: BSF as Feed Ingredient in Kenya and Uganda

The first edition of the Salinity Magazine is out now, and available here through the link above.

Saline Water and Food Systems

Global

Saline

Launch of the Salinity Magazine

A new learning publication that captures the most recent findings from the Digital Agrifood Collective on digital governance and informed consent has been published. Based on research carried out by NFP and reflective workshops with DAC members, the publication presents insights from current literature, defining and exploring the connection between data governance, (informed) consent, and data sharing. Based on these insights, and in consultation with DAC members, NFP knowledge brokers drafted a visual training guide to aid discussions on informed consent with (smallholder) farmers in LIMCs.

Digital Agrifood Collective

Digitalisation

Data sharing

Food System Governance

2023 DAC  LEARNINGS ON INFORMED CONSENT AND DATA GOVERNANCE

From 18-21 March the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nairobi organised an Innovation Mission that revolved around livestock and alternative proteins. The mission identified challenges in the sector, but also generated inspiration and solutions.

Livestock

Innovation Mission Kenya: Livestock & Alternative Proteins

Black Soldier Fly farming in Kenya is a nascent industry. Increased alignment among BSF farmers and other stakeholders in the sector could contribute to the sector's sustainable growth over the coming years.

Power of Collaboration: BSF Association Kenya

The potential of Black Soldier Fly farming as a business is increasingly being recognised. Entrepreneurs are therefore continuously looking for ways that allow for more efficient production. A potential solution could be affordable, low-tech temperature and humidity mitigation tools.

Business Development

Innovation and Scaling

Climate Control for BSF Greenhouses

Black soldier fly rearing is an innovative biotechnology that has the potential to tackle, in a sustainable manner, challenges related to organic waste management, proteins and lipids sourcing for animal feed, and access to fertiliser. Ethiopia appears to possess a suitable environment for the adoption of this technology and the development of an industry. Logistical, legal and cultural aspects will play important roles if this promising sector is to be successful.

Poultry

Black soldier fly production for animal feed in Ethiopia

On February 13, 2024, the Netherlands Food Partnership and CGIAR co-organized a breakfast meeting on Responsible Scaling.  We had the opportunity to interview three of the participants. Below, you'll find valuable insight from the interview with Loet Rummenie. Loet is program director at StartLife, an AgriTechFood Accelerator on the Wageningen campus.

NL-CGIAR Strategic Partnership

Research

Responsible Scaling Interview 3/3 - Loet Rummenie, Startlife

On February 13, 2024, the Netherlands Food Partnership and CGIAR co-organized a breakfast meeting on Responsible Scaling. We had the opportunity to interview three of the participants. Below, you'll find valuable insight from the interview with Jinke Van Dam, coordinator of the Diversified Production Systems Impact Area at Tropenbos International, a network-based organisation taking a landscape approach to promoting sustainable livelihoods and land use in frontier landscapes the tropics: areas where forests meet agriculture and other land uses.

Responsible Scaling Interview 2/3 - Jinke van Dam, Tropenbos International

On February 13, 2024, the Netherlands Food Partnership and CGIAR co-organized a breakfast meeting on Responsible Scaling. We had the opportunity to interview three of the participants. Below, youll find valuable insight from the interview with Boudy van Schagen. Boudy is the team lead for food and agribusiness and senior advisor for seed sector development at KIT Royal Tropical Institute.

Responsible Scaling Interview 1/3 - Boudy van Schagen, KIT Royal Tropical Institute

Last year, NFP launched a new CoP about Youth Agripreneurship in Africa. Together with a growing community of practitioners, youth champions, policy makers and researchers, we looked into the most effective interventions to serve different youth groups to meaningfully contribute to and benefit from their food systems.

Youth and Sustainable Agriculture

Africa

Employment

Entrepreneurship

Youth

Youth Agripereneurship in Africa, Insights from NFP's community of practice

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Food Systems Innovation Challenge

Bridging Biodiversity and Food Systems

Global Partnership for the True Price of Food

Working with Informality

Food Systems & Climate Change

Dialogues and Partnerships with FAO, IFAD, WFP and CGIAR

Coalition on smallholder farmers digital ecosystems

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E-course on Food Systems

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Food security and stability

On 20 October 2023, ECDPM and the Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP) hosted an informal
roundtable discussion at the CGIAR premises in Rome titled 'Food systems finance and climate and
food nexus: An action-oriented dialogue for a stronger engagement of the Dutch food network at the
Rome-based agencies'. The event aimed to bridge connections and strengthen Dutch food network
actors' engagement with the work of the Rome-based agencies.

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Rome-based Agencies

The discussion, facilitated by ECDPM and NFP, focused on enhancing the engagement of the Dutch food network with the UN Rome-based agencies (RBAs) in the areas of climate-food nexus and food systems finance. The meeting emphasized the potential contributions of Dutch knowledge institutes, civil society, and businesses to the work of RBAs. The attached report highlights specific joint actions proposed for the short and medium to long term, based on the valuable ideas and contributions shared during the discussion.

<h2>Main Conclusions </h2>
Dutch knowledge institutes, civil society and businesses can be of added value for the work of the UN Rome-based agencies (RBAs), especially in Africa. Greater engagement and impact can be achieved through:
<ul><li>Working together at COP28 towards a coherent food system and agriculture agenda</li><li>Supporting the development of climate-resilient food system pathways at the country level</li><li>Strengthening the inclusivity of country-level planning and implementation</li><li>Facilitating youth engagement</li><li>Sharing lessons learned on successful investment programmes in agri-food systems</li><li>Improving the policy and regulatory environment for agri-food system investments to flow</li><li>Leveraging the work of the RBAs to improve the economic, social and environmenta impacts of investments in agri-food systems</li><li>Better monitoring of the progress of food systems transformation efforts</li></ul>

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To find out more about the project and get future updates, please visit the <a href="https://www.nfpconnects.com/communities/dialogues-and-partnerships-with-the-rome-based-agencies-fao-ifad-and-wfp">project page</a> or get in touch with Nicole Metz, Senior Knowledge Broker at the Netherlands Food Partnership at <a href="mailto:nmetz@nlfoodpartnership.com">nmetz@nlfoodpartnership.com </a>

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.

Forage

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.

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