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 …
“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 …
Watch the NICE image film produced by Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture Kenya for World Food Day 2022: https://youtu.be/9ooc3wYcRJY
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 …
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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 …