News

12 April 2022

Continuing a successful NL-CGIAR Partnership

At the NL-CGIAR Partnership Event on April 12, CGIAR and the Netherlands, represented respectively by Elwyn Grainger-Jones (Managing Director, Institutional Strategy and Systems), Marije Beens (Director-General Agro - MoA) and Kitty van der Heijden (Director-General for International Cooperation - MoFA) officially marked the continuation of the partnership between CGIAR and The Government of the Netherlands by signing a renewed Memorandum of Understanding.

11 April 2022

Ghana Urban Food Environments | Theory of Change

Coalition members jointly have developed a Theory of Change with multiple aligned pathways to synergised outcomes for healthy consumption in Accra.

3 April 2022

Quality Based Milk Payment Systems

1 April 2022

Minister Staghouwer en NFP onderstrepen het belang van samenwerking voor weerbaarheid van het internationale voedselsysteem

Door de effecten van meerdere crises tegelijk - de oorlog in Ukraine, klimaatverandering en corona - is voedselzekerheid over de hele wereld extra onder druk komen te staan. Minister Henk Staghouwer van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit heeft in een ontmoeting met het Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP) besproken hoe Nederland kan bijdragen aan een aanpak die leidt tot verhoogde weerbaarheid van het internationale voedselsysteem en betere voedselzekerheid.

31 March 2022

Minister Staghouwer and NFP acknowledge importance of collaborative action to foster global food systems resilience

Global food security is severely at risk as a result of the impact of multiple global crises: the war in Ukraine, climate change, and covid-19. Dutch Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality Henk Staghouwer explored the opportunities for the Netherlands to sustainably address these risks in a meeting with Netherlands Food Partnership’s (NFP) Executive Director Myrtille Danse and Supervisory Board Chair Suzanne van Tilburg.

31 March 2022

New guidance available: Flexible livelihoods and food security programming in fragile settings

What room is there for flexibility in current Dutch funded food security programming in fragile settings? This question prompted the launch of a project at the end of 2021, that was to be delivered jointly by NFP, The Broker and ZOA. The primary goal of the project was to create the tools for both INGOs and policymakers, to take advantage of space for flexible programming that might otherwise be overlooked. The guidance developed in the course of this project is now available for use.

25 March 2022

Call for Input | Share your ideas for the Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Policy Consultation

The Dutch Government has opened an online civil consultation to feed into its upcoming policy brief. This will in turn, guide and inform Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation (FT&DC) policy in the coming years.

24 March 2022

Saline Water and Food Systems Partnership Continues to Take Shape

Another important step has been taken in the design of the Dutch Saline Water & Food Systems Partnership. On 10 March, stakeholders from the Netherlands water and food sectors gathered to explore how a partnership could intensify cross-sectoral collaboration, stimulate national and international knowledge exchange, and initiate projects.

22 March 2022

Skills for Horticulture Coalition Feature in Algemeen Dagblad

NFP featured this month in an article entitled 'A healthy population in a healthy economy', which was published in Dutch National Newspaper Algemeen Dagblad's magazine supplement.

8 March 2022

Rapid assessments: when fast interventions are required

Since early 2020, Wageningen University & Research has been using rapid assessments to gain insight into the impact of COVID-19 on agrifood sectors in Africa and Asia. The unique method proved that stakeholders can adequately take actions to crisis with fast interventions. Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation now shares the method, results and lessons learned.