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19 October 2021

Results from global scoping study on fruits and vegetables | Wageningen University & Research

Millions of people in Asia and Africa suffer not so much from a lack of food, but from a lack of healthy food. Simply put, fruits and vegetables are more expensive and less readily available than less nutrient-rich food. In addition, agricultural policies and development programmes have for too long focused almost exclusively on grain and vegetables like onions and tomatoes, and not on the much healthier leafy vegetables. This has to change, conclude Wageningen University & Research researchers in a study examining the state of vegetable and fruit consumption in low- and middle-income countries and the food systems of seven countries.

8 October 2021

Increasing Awareness and Knowledge about Nutrition: A Practitioner Guide for SDGP and other PPP projects

In January 2021 the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) organised a webinar on nutrition improvement, offering information, tools and coaching for SDGP and other Public-private partnership (PPP) projects. The webinar was elaborated in collaboration with the Netherlands Working Group on International Nutrition (NWGN). All relevant information has been brought together in a Practitioner Guide for further support and outreach among SDGP and other PPP project teams.

30 September 2021

YALTA Topical Deep Dive Sessions

The Youth in Agroecology and Business Learning Track Africa (YALTA initiative) in close collaboration with its partners organised a series of topical deep dives to strengthen coalition activities on a wide range of topics.

28 September 2021

Outcomes from the UN Food Systems Summit

The first ever Food Systems Summit took place during the UN General Assembly in New York on September 23, in an effort to spur national and regional food systems transitions, which help deliver the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In particular, much of the emphasis was placed towards SDG2 and the elimination of global hunger by 2030, through food systems transformation. UN member states present at the summit, together with leaders from private sector, science, and development institutions, committed their support to the transformation of food systems as a key and crucial element of the SDG agenda.

28 September 2021

Call for Proposals | Water for Food

Many projects in the agriculture and food sector aim to make an impact on food security, for example by improving productivity and increasing income of smallholder farmers. At the same time there may be opportunities to also influence the quality of local diets, and as such improve nutrition and further contribute to SDG2. However, often projects have not (yet) considered these opportunities.

23 September 2021

Food systems resilience – new paper explores potential of an emerging approach for food security in protracted crises

In the run up to the Food Systems Summit Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP), CARE, Cordaid and ZOA jointly present a new paper that explores the potential of food systems resilience as an emerging approach to address food insecurity in protracted crises. The paper follows and builds on the Food Systems Summit Independent Dialogue on Food Systems Resilience in Protracted Crises, and the earlier learning exchange on food systems resilience from a local programming perspective.

23 September 2021

De wereldwijde voedselcrisis vraagt om scherpe keuzes van Nederland

Opinion article by Ruerd Ruben en Myrtille Danse. Published in Dutch newspaper Trouw on 23 september 2021 Gezond voedsel zou voor iedereen betaalbaar moeten zijn. Bij de VN-top over voedsel, die vandaag plaatsvindt, zou Nederland visie moeten tonen, schrijven Ruerd Ruben (hoogleraar impactanalyse van voedselsystemen) en Myrtille Danse (algemeen directeur van het Netherlands Food Partnership)

2 September 2021

Multi-stakeholder platforms a ‘game-changing solution’ to achieve sustainable food systems

This Insights publication has been created to tap into and build upon the specific lessons learned on multi-stakeholder platforms that were shared during the Independent Dialogue on 18 May 2021. Read about multi-stakeholder collaboration; it’s benefits and limitations, findings of the Independent Dialogue, cases presented and recommendations for action in the run-up to the UN Food Systems Summit on 23 September.

31 August 2021

NWGN Guidelines on Food and Nutrition Security Indicators

In 2020, the Netherlands Working Group on international Nutrition (NGWN) collected an overview of tools and methods to support projects within the agro-food sector to become (more) nutrition sensitive. To support the reporting of results of nutrition sensitive and Food and Nutrition Security projects, the NWGN has recently published two guiding documents.

11 August 2021

UN Food Systems Pre-Summit | Spotlight on SME's

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have a crucial role to play in food systems globally and Small and constitute over half of most food economies. Following the UN Food Systems Pre-Summit, highlights of some of the collective efforts of SMEs and their contribution to food systems transformation and sustainability were shared.