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      • Sustainable intensification of mixed farming systems in relation to local values chains
      • N2AFRICA: How to intensify legume production
      • Productivity and intercrop diversity tradeoffs in Central African cocoa farms
      • Agricultural intensification pathways in Vakinankaratra region
      • Intensification processes in the Old Groundnut Basin
      • Agricultural intensification in the delta of the river Senegal
      • Seed potato production in Eritrea
      • Doubling the income of milk producers puts food on the table of many African families
      • Linking farmers to markets – intensification through certified organic production in Uganda
      • Agricultural intensification in Mali and Sudan through improved soil fertility, integrated pest management and mechanization
      • Organic farming in East Africa
      • Nutrition-sensitive value chains: the case of vegetables in Yayu biosphere reserve, Ethiopia
      • Consortium for Improving Agriculture-based Livelihoods in Central Africa (CIALCA)
      • Enclosure systems in East Africa – Learning from Triple L
      • Intensification dynamics in the Kenyan dairy value chain
      • Sustainable Intensification Pathways for Maize-Legume Cropping Systems
      • Carbon content farming activities used by smallholder farmers of Mt. Kenya region
      • Mapping sustainable intensification initiatives
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A new strategic partnership launched between the EU and Africa

PROIntensAfrica On May 18, 2017
A new strategic partnership between the EU and Africa was launched on 4 May with agriculture one of the main pillars of the new strategy. The agri-food sector is seen as a key area through which the EU can support rural and urban development in Africa. According to a joint paper from the [...]
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Two years of work resulted in an effective partnership – PROIntensAfrica project has finished

PROIntensAfrica On April 27, 2017
“We have a dream of alignment. It is not our target, it is our instrument to reach impact.” With these words Dr. Huub Löffler, coordinator of the two-year project PROIntensAfrica, closed the project’s final seminar, organized 13–15 March, 2017 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. During two years, the PROIntensAfrica consortium worked on a vision to build [...]
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Harnessing the potential: Outline for a long-term EU–Africa Research and Innovation Partnership

PROIntensAfrica On April 27, 2017
The need to unlock the potential of African agriculture is broadly acknowledged, and it has resulted in many research and innovation projects and programs. Yet many efforts are scattered. Lack of alignment may well result in missing the potential for synergy and convergence. It may hamper large-scale projects as each individual project is limited [...]
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PROIntensAfrica results in brief: a vision for an AU-EU long term research & innovation partnership

PROIntensAfrica On April 27, 2017
The expected growth of the world population to 9 billion in 2050 and the changing diets will affect food availability drastically. Therefore improving food and nutrition security and ensuring the sustainability of agriculture (FNSSA) is and will be a global issue for the years to come. African and European researchers have agreed to jointly engage in the preparation [...]
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LEAP-Agri call launched – a webinar for applicants on March 23

PROIntensAfrica On March 20, 2017
The LEAP-Agri Call for Preliminary Proposals on ‘African European collaborative research on Sustainable Agriculture and Aquaculture and on Food and Nutrition Security’ has been launched. Please find more information on the call via the LEAP-Agri website. LEAP-Agri is a partnership between partners from 19 European and African countries and the EU aimed at [...]
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“Effective and Efficient Research and Innovation Partnerships” seminar presentations

PROIntensAfrica On March 20, 2017
PROIntensAfrica project organised a final seminar “Effective and Efficient Research and Innovation Partnerships” on March 14, 2017 at the African Union Commission Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Please find below the seminar presentations.   PROIntensAfrica project presentation from IntensAfrica initiative Read Full Article →

PROIntensAfrica Case Studies brochure show the diverse situations call for different pathways

PROIntensAfrica On March 13, 2017
The PROIntensAfrica project identified four different pathways leading to sustainable intensification. These pathways demonstrate the richness and variety of options that are open to farmers. Please download the Case Studies brochure here. These four pathways were pre-identified in the initial project proposal (2014). The work carried out in 2015 and 2016 by PROIntensAfrica, in [...]
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Building blocks for a research partnership between Europe and Africa

PROIntensAfrica On March 10, 2017
The expected growth of the world population to 9 billion in 2050 and the changing diets will affect food availability drastically. Therefore improving food and nutrition security and ensuring the sustainability of agriculture is a global issue for the years to come. African and European researchers have agreed to jointly engage in the preparation of [...]
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LEAP-Agri call for proposals is open

PROIntensAfrica On March 10, 2017
LEAP-Agri ERA-NET cofund call for research proposals on “Sustainable Agriculture and Aquaculture for Nutrition and Food Security in Africa” is open. Deadline for pre-proposals is in June 2017 (exact date tbc). LEAP-Agri (A Long term EU- Africa research and innovation Partnership) on food and nutrition security and sustainable Agriculture is a partnership between 24 funding organisations [...]
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Diverse pathways lead to sustainable intensification of agriculture

PROIntensAfrica On March 6, 2017
The PROIntensAfrica project has identified different pathways leading to sustainable intensification. These pathways demonstrate the richness and variety of options that are open to farmers. These pathways have been labelled tentatively as “conventional”, “ecotechnological”, “agroecological” and “organic”. These four pathways are of course not directly from the field nor are they possible technical packages of [...]
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PROIntensAfrica – Towards a long-term Africa-EU partnership to raise sustainable food and nutrition security in Africa

The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 652671.