My name is Bine Liem and I have attended the 11th plenary session of the IPBES. During the conference, I was part of the Dutch delegation. In this delegation, I had the chance to fulfill my role as a Dutch UN youth representative on Biodiversity and Food. A youth representative bridges Dutch youth with international politics. NFP invited me to share my reflections on my attendance of IPBES, the final contents of the Nexus and Transformative Change Assessment reports, and the relevance to a food systems approach. This, together with a critical reflection, is what compiles this blog.

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Unlocking Insights from IPBES Nexus & Transformative Change Reports: A Youth Perspective on Food Systems by Bine Liem

The Netherlands Food Partnership is pleased to highlight CGIAR’s newly launched 2025-2030 Research Portfolio, which builds on its 2030 Strategy with a more streamlined and focused approach. With a reduced number of entry points compared to the 2022-2024 Portfolio, CGIAR’s offer becomes easier to understand, communicate, and fund, ensuring greater clarity and accessibility for partners and stakeholders.

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Spotlight on CGIAR's 2025 - 2030 Research Portfolio

On Thursday 28th of November 2024, The Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP), in collaboration with TRAIDE Foundation, ACEN Foundation and the IN-FEAST Partnership, hosted a Knowledge Exchange
Event on Insect Farming in Ethiopia: Many Legs Make Light Work. The event specifically focused on black
soldier fly (BSF) farming. Key points included the sector's potential for sustainable food production,
alternative proteins, and organic fertilizer. Challenges identified were collaboration among stakeholders in
the sector, access to finance, technical capacity building
and awareness / image of the sector. The session also
highlighted the need for effective communication and
partnerships to support BSF farming in Ethiopia.

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Insect Farming in Ethiopia: Knowledge Exchange Event

With COP 29 now concluded, it is time to reflect. The overall atmosphere and key takeaways suggest that COP 29 felt more like a 'continuity COP' than a groundbreaking one. The food systems agenda maintained momentum from COP 28, but the broader conference was overshadowed by disagreements, a lack of ambition, and a growing sense of fatigue. While there were small wins—like methane reduction efforts and climate finance pledges—these were offset by bureaucratic overload and stalled negotiations.

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Europe

Azerbaijan

Food Systems & Climate Change

Looking back at COP 29: Less coordination more action

A new position paper on how to navigate the trade-offs between healthy diets and climate impact was published by Netherlands Working Group on International Nutrition and Clim-Eat.

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Food Systems

Dairy

Livestock

Climate

Animal-sourced foods in low- and middle-income countries: Pathways to Nutrition and Sustainability

As part of its support to Partnerships, NFP occasionally employs the mechanism of Seed Money Facilities (SMFs). These SMFs serve to accelerate efforts to reach that Partnership's objectives. Such as stimulating innovations, advancing research or improving regulatory frameworks. To ensure that NFP can keep supporting Partnerships to employ these SMFs in the most effective and efficient way, we have asked Wageningen Center for Development Innovation (WCDI) to conduct a review. A review that not only NFP, but also our partners can benefit from.

Saline Water and Food Systems

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Seed Money Facilities Review

Laura Martinussen is an independent consultant, seconded through Fair & Sustainable Consulting, and the Nairobi-based Project Coordinator for the IN-FEAST Partnership in East Africa. Working together with a Coalition Builder from NFP, in the past year she experienced first-hand how the dynamics of an Impact Coalition - the type that NFP typically supports - differ from more 'conventional' consortia and projects. And the challenges that it brings for building a strong partnership.

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Lessons of a Coalition Builder

The Hybrid European launch of IFPRI’s 2024 Global Food Policy Report took place at a pivotal moment, with growing global attention on food systems, nutrition and the urgent need for transformative change. Amanda Harding, moderator and leading Convene, opened the event welcoming the 70+ participants present at the venue as well as the over 1.000 participants joining online.

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Event Report: Improving diets and Nutrition through Food Systems - What Will It Take?

In todays fast-evolving digital landscape, the intersection of agriculture and technology (AgTech) has opened a wealth of opportunities for improving farmer services, boosting productivity, and optimizing supply chains. However, this rapid growth also brings crucial challenges, particularly when it comes to the collection, use, and protection of data.

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Food System Governance

Webinar Recording: Finding the Balance Between Data Protection and Innovation in AgTech

Finding proven approaches to reduce global Food Loss and Waste (FLW) can be quite a struggle. And how do you initiate effective measures as an organisation? The FLW Toolbox provides all the information on how your organisation can effectively reduce FLW. The TARGET - MEASURE - ACT approach not only reduces FLW, but also decreases greenhouse gas emissions, the water footprint, land use and nutrient loss.

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FLW Toolbox: A Systematic Approach for Food Loss and Waste Reduction

Rising prices for conventional animal feed ingredients (such as soy and maize) challenge us to look at viable, locally-sourced and circular alternatives. To both lower dependencies of producers and feed companies on imported inputs, but to also reduce the ecological footprint of feed production. In Nigeria, NFP supports Bopinc and the Circular Economy Innovation Partnership (CEIP) in developing a viable business model for processing wasted cassava peels into ingredients for animal feed.

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Cassava Peels for Animal Feed

On July 9th we kicked off the Insect Farming East Africa (IN-FEAST) Partnership! This Partnership, consisting of the Association for Insect Farming and Its Products (IFIP), New Generation Nutrition and Fair & Sustainable, has the objective to advance the sustainable growth of the insect sector in Kenya and East Africa. NFP is happy to announce that it will support the Partnership for three years.

IN-FEAST Partnership Kick-Off

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This Working Paper describes the Ethiopia forage sub-sector and looks at available forage species, quality, seasonality, preservation, seeds, planting material and fertilizer use, mechanization, inputs and services, the forage market, education and training, environmental footprint, and policy framework. The report gives recommendations to enhance 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 by the Netherlands government for learning and sharing amongst different dairy sectors and projects in East Africa.

Working Paper: Quick Scan of Ethiopias Forage Sub-Sector by NEADAP

Building Rural Income through Inclusive Dairy Business Growth (BRIDGE) is a five-year (Sep 2018- June 2023) project financed by the EKN and implemented by SNV and Wageningen University & Research. The main objectives of the programme are to improve the income of dairy farming on the household level and to contribute to sector transformation.

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The adoption of forage production and utilization practices is low in Ethiopia, resulting in low livestock productivity and high production costs. Previous initiatives focused on the free distribution of forage seed, but this has often resulted in poor market linkages between forage seed suppliers and farmers. 
The BRIDGE project used smart subsidies to shift towards a market-oriented forage seed supply approach, which succeeded in offering farmers reliable access to quality forage seed and planting materials against fair prices and on-time supply. 
During the 2020 season, 2,815 farmers accessed improved seeds, while in the subsequent season, 36 Agro-input dealers supplied forage to almost 11,000 farmers, with further expansion planned for the 2022 season, thus establishing a sustainable forage seed market in Ethiopia.

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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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 Uganda's 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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BRIDGE Project Brief: Kickstarting the Ethiopian forage seed market

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Working Paper: Quick Scan of Ethiopias Forage Sub-Sector by NEADAP

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