Cornelia Speich – Page 2

NICE at the 2023 World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Nairobi

by Cornelia SpeichNews, Rwanda July 12, 2023July 24, 2023Comments are Disabled

On 12Jul2023, Straton Habumugisha, NICE Country Manager Rwanda, took the opportunity to showcase the NICE project in IALE World Congress‘ special session on Food sensitive planning levers for sustainability: scales and spaces. In the presentation, the numerous dimensions of malnutrition in Western Rwanda and their request for collaborative, multisectoral, social-ecological interventions have been shared with …

NICE at the 8th Annual Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy Week #ANH2023

by Cornelia SpeichNews June 30, 2023July 24, 2023Comments are Disabled

The NICE project has been contributing to fostering knowledge exchange, innovation, and learning around interdisciplinary agriculture, nutrition, and health topics by two poster presentations at ANH2023 19-30Jun2023 in Lilongwe (and hybrid). Topics of NICE’s contributions were:

NICE featured in a special issue of The East African on promotion of resilient agriculture in East Africa

by Cornelia SpeichKenya June 28, 2023June 28, 2023Comments are Disabled

NICE was featured in The East African’s “The Next Big Thing is Africa” quarterly journal, focusing on promoting resilient agriculture in East Africa for its June 2023 edition. Access the whole special issue here: https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/resource/blob/4277126/45474a2510b4f4883544ad4d09d6a88f/pdf-data.pdf)

Inspiring exchanges at the Food Policy Symposium at City, University of London

by Cornelia SpeichNews May 3, 2023May 3, 2023Comments are Disabled

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 …

NICE at the 1st Eastern Africa Agroecology Conference

by Cornelia SpeichNews April 19, 2023April 19, 2023Comments are Disabled

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 …

NICE Winter School

by Cornelia SpeichNews February 20, 2023March 16, 2023Comments are Disabled

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 …

NICE in Nature Food

by Cornelia SpeichNews December 6, 2022March 16, 2023Comments are Disabled

“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 …

#WFD2022: New image film produced by the Kenyan NICE team

by Cornelia SpeichUncategorized November 2, 2022August 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

Watch the NICE image film produced for World Food Day 2022: https://youtu.be/9ooc3wYcRJY

NICE Organizing a High-Level Roundtable on Nutrition Policies in Bangladesh

by Cornelia SpeichBangladesh, News October 24, 2022March 16, 2023Comments are Disabled

On 22Oct2022 our NICE country team in Bangladesh organized a high-level roundtable on national and regional nutrition policies in Bangladesh, together with the local newspaper The Business Standard. Under the topic of Creating nutrition vital cities: Role of multisectoral platforms, national government representatives, UN representatives and NGO and private sector representatives emphasized the need for …

NICE at ETH Food Day 2022

by Cornelia SpeichNews October 11, 2022March 16, 2023Comments are Disabled

As in 2021, the NICE project has also been featured at ETH Zurich’s Food Day 2022 11 November 2022 by a poster entitled: A participatory journey to select nutritious value chains for implementing agroecological interventions in the Nutrition in City Ecosystems Project in Kenya. As a public research symposium, ETH Zurich’s Food Day highlights research …

Read more “NICE at ETH Food Day 2022”