HealthyFoodAfrica’s thematic Work Package 3 promotes production of healthy and nutritious food products through resource-efficient, climate-resilient production systems including crop, aquaculture and integrated systems. The Work Package’s objective is to contribute to more sustainable, diverse, resilient and climate-smart food production systems and strategies with a focus on legumes, fish as well as vegetables and fruit. […]
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Stimulating consumer demand for sustainable, healthy diets through nutrition education
The HealthyFoodAfrica project is working to transform the food systems towards healthier consumption patterns and diets. Under its thematic Work Package 2 dealing with food consumption and healthy nutrition, the project focuses on implementing nutrition education and consumer awareness among other food system interventions to ensure change in consumption patterns. Food systems have an impact […]
Read moreFrom a policy brief to a training kit: HealthyFoodAfrica tackling gender inequality in African food systems
Africa’s food systems face many challenges, including trade dynamics, resource scarcity, governance, and inequality. Among these challenges, the role of women in food systems stands out as a key issue. The HealthyFoodAfrica project is making progress in understanding gender issues in Africa’s food systems: a policy brief and a training kit were created to provide […]
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Coordinator’s reflections: From planning to innovation – school gardens for self-sufficiency
As the northern hemisphere is enjoying the longest daylight hours of the year, it is good to reflect back on the sun and warmth we experienced in Accra a few months ago. It was HealthyFoodAfrica’s second live consortium meeting, and once again highlighted the importance of actual face-to-face discussions, field visits to experience the work […]
Read morePractical information from the HealthyFoodAfrica project’s results to food system actors
We have produced Practice Abstracts to disseminate project’s findings to a larger audience. The Practice Abstacts are targeted to food systems actors: farmers, vendors or anyone who could benefit from information on how to create more sustainable, efficient, inclusive and healthy food systems. Food System Lab Accra in Ghana conducted a baseline fish farms survey […]
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Reflections on the first year of HealthyFoodAfrica
The HealthyFoodAfrica (HFA) project has now been up and running for over a year. It is a good time to reflect on where we are and where we want to be – both in the near, and in the more distant future. HFA is a project that aims to tackle the challenges of the food […]
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HealthyFoodAfrica kicks off to improve food systems in ten African cities
HealthyFoodAfrica is an EU-funded research & innovation action aiming at sustainable, equitable and resilient food systems in African cities. The project is a collaborative effort by 17 partners in both Europe and Africa. African agri-food systems are facing numerous challenges related to climate change, rapid population growth and urbanization. Both food production and consumption patterns […]
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