Author: Cornelia Speich

The NICE project is contributing to fostering knowledge exchange, innovation, and learning around interdisciplinary agriculture, nutrition, and health topics by two poster presentations at the upcoming ANH2023 19-30Jun2023 in Lilongwe (and hybrid).

Secondary cities tend to be better linked with their surrounding foodshed than primate cities and act as important platforms to trade agricultural produce within their rural surrounding. With more and more people living in cities, urban food systems become increasingly important, and urban contexts and modern lifestyles also present opportunities to better reach consumers through …

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The NICE project will be showcased by an oral presentation About the numerous dimensions of malnutrition in Western Rwanda and their request for collaborative, multisectoral, social-ecological interventions in IALE World Congress‘ special session on Food sensitive planning levers for sustainability: scales and spaces, date and time still to be defined.

Inspiring good practices, challenging ideas and a lot of food policy insights and potential ways forward toward food systems transformation have been shared and discussed by more than 200 stakeholders at the 2023 Food Policy Symposium at City, University of London end of Apr2023. The NICE team enjoyed being part of the symposium and gaining …

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The NICE project was sharing its experiences with the modified FAO SHARP tool with a broad audience in the frame of the 1st Eastern Africa Agroecology Conference held in Nairobi 21-24Mar2023. The respective presentation of Sophie van den Berg and Elizabeth Imbo can be found here: EAAC__240FarmResilience_withtext_21.03.23.pptx – Google Slides The respective abstract book also …

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NICE country teams and representatives from all six NICE cities came together in Busia, Kenya, 11-18Feb2023, to exchange experiences and knowledge on urban food systems directly on the ground. Together with guests from Kisumu, Mombasa, and Nairobi, all Kenya, as well as Bambilor, Senegal, success and bottlenecks, plans and visions of daily work in urban …

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“Nutrition as a Driver and Outcome of Agroecology”; we are extremly honoured that our respective article has just been published in Nature Food. In this article, the NICE agroecology Research Team looked into the 13 principles of agroecology proposed by the high-level panel of experts on food security and nutrition and analyzed their connection with …

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