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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)

Policy Makers In Kenya Discuss How the NICE Project Can Inform Policies on Nutrition

by Annette WachiraKenya June 26, 2023October 29, 2024Comments are Disabled

The NICE Project aims to improve nutrition in urban, peri-urban, and rural areas, by shaping urban-rural food environments and informing national and local policies. In Kenya, a high-level meeting with key policymakers was recently held at Acacia Premier Hotel in Kisumu on the 17th of May 2023. The meeting was graced by key policymakers from …

NICE Celebrates World Food Safety Day 2023 in Dinajpur, Bangladesh

by Jasia MehjabinBangladesh June 19, 2023June 27, 2023Comments are Disabled

Dinajpur, Bangladesh – In a remarkable celebration of World Food Safety Day 2023, the Nutrition in City Ecosystems (NICE) project along with Dinajpur Municipality rose awareness for nutritious and safe foods on 7 June 2023. With this year’s theme being “Food Standard Saves Lives”, NICE showcased its unwavering commitment to enhancing nutrition and health among …

NICE celebrating World Food Safety day 2023 in Rangpur, Bangladesh

by Jasia MehjabinBangladesh June 18, 2023June 27, 2023Comments are Disabled

A remarkable event to commemorate World Food Safety Day 2023 at the Rangpur City Corporation has been organized by the NICE project this 11th June 2023. Aligned with this year’s World Food Safety Day theme “Food Standard Saves Lives” the NICE team took on the important responsibility of distributing nutrition packages to the city’s residents, …

NICE social marketing campaign dubbed “Tuelimike” educates the community on safe and good nutrition in Bungoma and Busia.

by Annette WachiraKenya June 14, 2023June 17, 2023Comments are Disabled

Improving nutrition and health in secondary cities like Bungoma and Busia is a key goal of the NICE project. The project conducted a social marketing campaign called “Tuelimike” through activations in schools, clinics, markets and among small-scale farmers. The Tuelimike campaign, which translates to “Let us be Informed/Educated,” took place in Bungoma and Busia cities in Kenya …

NICE Campaign on Safe and Nutritious Food Production in the Cities of Dinajpur and Rangpur

by Jasia MehjabinBangladesh May 25, 2023June 6, 2023Comments are Disabled

The Nutrition in City Ecosystems (NICE) project has launched a social marketing campaign to promote production as well as consumption of safe, nutritious, and agroecologically produced foods in Dinajpur and Rangpur. This campaign was implemented by the NICE project in both cities as part of its demand creation strategy. The campaign aims to raise awareness …

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 …