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.

Digital Agrifood Collective

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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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Food Loss and Waste

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.

Nigeria

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.

Insects for Feed

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Insects

IN-FEAST Partnership Kick-Off

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!

During the DAC meeting of 24 April we revisited activities of the past year, focusing on data governance, informed consent, and data sharing in the agri-food sector. Through engaging discussions and the presentation of a pilot study by Yielder, involving 3,900 Kenyan farmers, we gained valuable insights into the critical role of informed consent in data management.

Informed Consent

Refining Data Governance in AgTech: DAC's Journey Toward Informed Consent and Ethical Data Sharing

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.

Uganda

East Africa

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

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.

Data sharing

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.

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

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NL-CGIAR Strategic Partnership

Food Systems Innovation Challenge

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Global Partnership for the True Price of Food

Food Systems & Climate Change

Dialogues and Partnerships with FAO, IFAD, WFP and CGIAR

Coalition on smallholder farmers digital ecosystems

Food Systems : UN Stocktaking Moment

Youth and Sustainable Agriculture

E-course on Food Systems

Food security policy

Food System Finance

Food security and stability

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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).

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