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 for World Food Day 2022: https://youtu.be/9ooc3wYcRJY
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 …
The determinants for food purchase decisions, food preparation habits and food consumption patterns among families of women of reproductive age with low socioeconomic status living in the two Rwandan NICE cities Rubavu and Rusizi have been presented in a poster at the American Society for Nutrition’s NUTRITION summit 14-16 June 2022. Learn more about our …
Strengthening the supply and demand for nutritious, local, agroecologically produced foods in the NICE cities in Bangladesh, Kenya, and Rwanda have been the topic of a poster presented at the Geneva Health Forum 3-5 May 2022.
A first impression on the nutritional status of populations in the NICE cities Dinajpur and Rangpur (Bangladesh), Bungoma and Busia (Kenya), and Rubavu and Rusizi (Rwanda) and the NICE project’s intentions to strengthen the supply and demand for local, agroecologically-produced, nutritions foods have been given at ETH Food Day 2021 05 November 2021, where our …