The Innovation Forum moreover offered an opportunity to make new contacts, network, and learn about innovative approaches in the agri-food sector.
ADT Project Consulting GmbH is one of the leading international project management and consulting companies focusing on livestock and crop value chain development. Based in Bonn, Germany, the company has been promoting and supporting development activities in the field of livestock, agriculture, food security and food safety in Europe, Central Asia and Africa for more than 25 years.
We are characterized by dedicated and highly skilled staff and a large network with global experience from 80 projects in over 50 countries.
ADT-led projects are characterized by above-average professional and technical depth and exceptionally high levels of impact along food systems.With our always practice-oriented approaches, we promote country-specific solutions for, among other things, resource-efficient provision of safe food, traceability of animal products, and prevention of food losses.
ADT Project Consulting GmbH supports governmental and private institutions and partners in the implementation of technical solutions in agricultural primary production, processing and marketing, always under the condition of a stronger integration of the value chain actors.
In Surinam and Ethiopia, for example, ADT can refer to the implementation of the animal identification system “LITS” (Lifestock identification and traceability system), with which ADT has laid a milestone for the regional control of livestock and animal diseases, traceability of animal products and confidence building in regional and sustainable animal value chains.
Furthermore, ADT supports, among others, local milk producers in preventing food losses through its “Competence Promotion Milk” (KFM) project in Kazakhstan as well as through its “Expert Working Group Milk” for the countries Tunisia, Kenya and Zambia by providing practical trainings and techniques to improve the product quality of raw milk.
ADT Project Consulting GmbH
Adenauerallee 174, 53113 Bonn
www.adtproject.de
Yves Tohermes
yves.tohermes@adt.de
+49 (0)228 91447 38
AFC Agriculture and Finance Consultants GmbH is a private German consulting company established in 1973. In 2007, we became a member of the GOPA Group, Germany’s largest group of consulting companies in development cooperation. AFC provides competent consulting services to support agricultural, agribusiness and financial sector development in cooperation with public and private sector organizations worldwide. In the agricultural and agribusiness sector, our services cover the whole value chain, from primary production to processing and trade. AFC’s portfolio in the financial sector includes projects ranging from micro and SME finance, through financial institutions development, to agriculture & value chain finance.
Our vision is to continue being recognised by all stakeholders as a reliable company delivering sustainable solutions to projects in our field of expertise world-wide. Therefore, we will constantly build on our capacity:
• to provide qualified technical assistance based on the latest scientific know-how and lessons learnt ;
• to maintain experienced staff trained in the most current sector-specific practices ;
• to expand access to finance ;
• to improve overall living conditions in developing and transition countries where nutrition and food security play an important role.
AFC Agriculture & Finance Consultants GmbH has been an international driver of cooperation in the field of global food systems and value chains for more than 50 years due to its international activities in project management.
AFC is currently supporting a large number of relevant projects in this field, both in Africa and Asia. In particular, the cooperation between the different countries is most relevant. We would like to highlight two projects including their objectives:
Project 1
Project 2
There is a growing interest and commitment to organic agriculture in Ukraine. What is missing so far is the full implementation of the Ukrainian organic farming law and thus the possibility to certify farms with the Ukrainian organic label. The project starts here with the intensive exchange of experiences from the EU and Germany respectively.
Due to the lack of inputs, such as mineral fertilizers, as a result of the war, organic farming has a new and particularly important role to play in Ukraine. In particular, due to the significantly lower input of inputs, a holistic management approach and the integration of legumes, it offers solutions to the current challenges in Ukraine, especially for securing the food supply and conserving resources.
Various aid activities (donation campaigns, etc.) have been initiated and actively supported by the project since the beginning of the war.
AFC Agriculture and Finance Consultants GmbH
Baunscheidtstr. 17, 53113 Bonn
Johannes Buschmeier
johannes.buschmeier@afci.de
+49 (0)157 754075 05
Arla Foods is a European dairy cooperative owned by nearly 9,000 Arla farmers from Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Sweden, and the Netherlands. The company, with approximately 20,000 employees, generated global sales of 11.2 billion euros in 2021. Arla products are sold in more than 140 countries around the world and is Europe’s largest producer of organic dairy products. Germany is not just a market, it’s a home. In this country, Arla Foods is among the top five in the dairy industry & is represented by brands such as Arla Bio, Arla Buko & Arla Kærgården. Arla employs around 1,650 people in two dairy plants (Pronsfeld in Rhineland-Palatinate & Upahl in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) & in the German headquarter in Düsseldorf. More than 1,400 German farmers and cooperative members from the West & the North supply milk to the two dairies. Agriculture bears part of the responsibility for addressing global climate challenges. Together with our farmer-owners, we want to drive the transition to a more sustainable dairy production. To this end, we have set ourselves ambitious, science-based climate targets for 2030, which have been officially endorsed by the global independent Science Based Targets initiative. Arla pursues an ambitious sustainability agenda from farm to fork: by 2030, CO2e emissions in production, own logistics fleet & energy use are to be reduced by 63%, on farms, external logistics services & packaging by 30%. By 2050, Arla aims to achieve net zero CO2e emissions.
The European cooperative Arla Foods, which includes more than 1,400 farmer owners from Germany, introduces a sustainability incentive to its farmer owners to help fund and motivate actions required to hit the 2030 emission reduction target on farm. Arla earmarks up to 3 eurocent per kilo of milk for sustainability activities in addition to the existing 1 eurocent for submitting Climate Check data. Based on the cooperative’s current milk volume, this corresponds to a total of up to 500 mEUR annually. Two years after implementing a comprehensive Climate Check on 8,000 farms across seven European countries, Arla farmers are taking another significant step to transform the dairy sector in a more sustainable direction. From next year, the milk price that the individual Arla farmer will receive from the dairy cooperative will depend on his or her activities related to environmental sustainability. The cooperative is introducing a point-based Sustainability Incentive model, building on data from the Climate Check, to reward current and future sustainability activities on farm. The Arla farmers can collect points based on their activities on the model’s 19 different levers e.g. feed, protein and fertilizer efficiency, manure delivery to biogas, biodiversity, carbon farming, use of renewable electricity and deforestation-free soy. For each point that the farmers are able to achieve, they will receive 0.03 eurocent per kilo of milk. Activities with bigger improvement potential for climate and nature will lead to the most points – and therefore also the biggest financial incentive.
Arla Foods
Wahlerstrasse 2, 40472 Duesseldorf
www.arlafoods.de
Kasper Thormod Nielsen
kthon@arlafoods.com
+49 (0)15254647767
CAISLEY is the leading manufacturer of animal identification products in Germany with growing market shares in EU countries and abroad. The family-owned company, based in Bocholt in North Rhine-Westphalia, has been dedicated to the animal identification of farm animals for more than 30 years. CAISLEY’s visual ear tags, electronic ear tags with transponder and tissue-sampling ear tags are currently used in more than 70 countries worldwide. CAISLEY products are known for their animal-friendly design, high quality standards and exceptionally low loss rates. As an associate member of ICAR, CAISLEY offers ear tags that are approved by the International Committee for Animal Recording (ICAR) and are widely used in official national livestock identification and traceability systems. CAISLEY’s products are suitable for a unique lifetime identification of livestock, ideally from birth to slaughter. In this way, they help to manage livestock in a resource-efficient and sustainable way, strengthen their health and effectively combat animal diseases, prevent animal theft and avoid conflicts between livestock farmers and crop producers.
CAISLEY works with Ministries in different countries to establish Livestock Identification & Traceability Systems (LITS). CAISLEY supports partners in the implementation of projects that build on a unique, lifelong animal identification that can be used for different applications – the so-called “multi-purpose LITS”. Currently, various pilot measures are being carried out in Africa, the Caucasus region and Central Asia. This includes use cases for the collection of data on milk yield, growth development and reproduction, the further breeding development of large and small livestock populations, animal health measures and the prevention of animal theft.
The CAISLEY tissue-sampling ear tag offers the special possibility to protect valuable animal stocks against theft, to determine genomic breeding values and to check the parentage and the affiliation to a livestock population. On this basis, appropriate measures for selection and mating can be given. The use of the tissue-sampling ear tag for genotyping offers a new possibility, especially for smaller, domestic populations, to contribute to their conservation and to biological diversity.
Caisley International GmbH
Harderhook 31, 46395 Bocholt
http://www.caisley.de
Dr. Ferdinand Schmitt
f.schmitt@caisley.de
+49 (0)287 1239 390
ColossalFish specializes in the development and application of advanced technologies that minimize the negative impacts of aquatic organism production in captivity. The efficient production of more fish in less space, with less water, less energy and less environmental impact is the basis for efficient and sustainable production.
By tokenizing our projects, we have complete transparency and traceability.
In this way, we want to contribute a little to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to combat climate change and to be able to make a significant contribution to food security.
We have been a member of the German-Brazilian Initiative for Cooperation in Agribusiness for many years, working here bilaterally with the Brazilian and German Ministries of Agriculture and regularly attending workshops at the Green Rio Bioeconomy Conference to seek innovative food security solutions.
The technologies developed by ColossalFish use the “RAS” (Recirculating Water System), which involves the treatment and reuse of the culture water. The organic production water and waste are reused and used for “organic” food cultivation. By judiciously integrating intensive fish farming with aquaponics technologies, it will be possible to produce healthy, high quality food at an affordable price with minimal environmental impact. We believe this production strategy is ideal for producing a wide range of foods in a very sustainable way. It will even be possible to restore degraded areas.
By tokenizing our projects, we have complete transparency and traceability.
ColossalFish LLC
244, Fifth Ave, Suite B80, 10001 New York, NY USA
http://www.colossal.fish
Burkhard F.W. Hormann
Hormann@colossal.fish
+1 (646) 583 1347
DEULA academy is among the most important regional and national teaching institutions in Germany. The DEULA-Nienburg organisation has a modern training and education centre, which, together with the training facilities, has a total area of about 9,000 m² and a total number of visitors of approx. 65000 man days/years, which makes it the biggest training centre of its kind in Germany.
The competence- “Know how” is the key factor for a successful and profitable production. That’s why our expertise has been in demand since 1990 in Central and Eastern European Countries, as well as in Latin America and Africa. The focus is to create a vocational training center for specialists to influence the improvement process in agriculture of each country. However, first and foremost the DEULA-Nienburg is targeted at technical innovations (such as the production of wind, biogas and photovoltaic energy) and economic consulting (in the foreground). Our research projects always mean sustainability and long-term benefits for our partners. We are always open for new projects and new contacts.
How can we preserve biological diversity?
The demands society makes of agriculture and municipalities in respect of nature conservation and environmental protection are high. Implementing nature conservation measures requires knowledge, on the one hand to understand the background and the benefits, on the other to implement the measures in practice and to facilitate the transformation of agriculture towards a sustainable system. Unfortunately, the subject of biodiversity in agriculture is neglected in vocational training. With this in mind, Deula Nienburg is developing training courses for farmers / contractors / municipalities that focus on the interface of nature conservation and agriculture. These courses address current topics that are being discussed by practitioners. Seminars are also held to address new scientific findings and innovations for practitioners and for (technical) application.
Our goal is to work with regional stakeholders and use our training courses to get agriculture into shape regarding nature conservation so that the farms are well-equipped for the future and can cope with the challenges of the coming years.
DEULA Nienburg GmbH
Max-Eyth-Straße 2, 3158 Nienburg
Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 1953 beschäftigt sich die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e. V. mit allen auf dem Gebiet der Ernährung auftretenden Fragen und stellt Forschungsbedarf fest. Sie unterstützt die ernährungswissenschaftliche Forschung ideell, informiert über neue Erkenntnisse und Entwicklungen und macht diese durch Publikationen und Veranstaltungen verfügbar. Durch Ernährungsaufklärung und Qualitätssicherung in der Ernährungsberatung und -erziehung fördert sie die vollwertige Ernährung, sichert deren Qualität und leistet dadurch einen Beitrag für die Gesundheit der Bevölkerung. Anhand wissenschaftlicher Bewertung gibt die DGE ihre Empfehlungen ab. Die DGE verfolgt als eingetragener Verein ausschließlich und unmittelbar gemeinnützige Zwecke.
Die DGE verwirklicht ihre Ziele bundesweit, insbesondere durch die Publikation des Ernährungsberichtes, der alle 4 Jahre erscheint, Herausgabe der D-A-CH-Referenzwerte für die Nährstoffzufuhr, Herausgabe von DGE-Beratungs-Standards, Leitlinien und Stellungnahmen, Herausgabe von DGE-Qualitätsstandards für die Gemeinschaftsverpflegung, Veröffentlichung weiterer Informations- und wissenschaftlicher Medien, Erarbeitung von Curricula, Durchführung von wissenschaftlichen Tagungen sowie Fortbildungs-, Multiplikatoren- und Informationsver- anstaltungen.
Aktuell überarbeitet die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e. V. (DGE) die für Deutschland gültigen lebensmittelbezogenen Ernährungsempfehlungen. Bei Ernährungsempfehlungen steht nicht mehr nur die menschliche Gesundheit im Fokus, sondern das gesamte Ernährungssystem. Entsprechend wurde für die gleichzeitige Berücksichtigung der Nachhaltigkeitsdimensionen Gesundheit, Umwelt, Soziales und Tierwohl eine neue, computergestützte Methodik entwickelt: Die Empfehlungen werden mithilfe eines mathematischen Optimierungsmodells abgeleitet.
Im Modell bilden eine angemessene Energiezufuhr und die ausreichende Versorgung mit Nährstoffen den Rahmen. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt in der überarbeiteten Ableitung liegt auf der Reduzierung des Verzehrs von Lebensmittelgruppen, die mit der Entstehung von ernährungsmitbedingten Krankheiten verbunden sind. Zusätzlich hat die Minimierung von schädlichen Umwelt- und Klimaeffekten Priorität in der Ableitung der lebensmittelbezogenen Ernährungsempfehlungen. Auch produktionsbedingte Abhängigkeiten bestimmter Lebensmittel zueinander gehen in die Modellierung mit ein.
Die DGE möchte zur Vorgehensweise bei der Ableitung sowie den Ergebnissen der aktualisierten lebensmittelbezogenen Ernährungsempfehlungen im Rahmen eines Konsultationsprozesses fachliche Anregungen, Meinungen und Anliegen einholen. Alle eingebrachten Inhalte werden im Zuge der Überarbeitung der lebensmittelbezogenen Ernährungsempfehlungen geprüft.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e. V.
Godesberger Allee 136, 53175 Bonn
https://www.dge.de/
Dr. Johanna Conrad
conrad@dge.de
+49 (0) 0228 3776 660
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a global service provider in the field of international cooperation for sustainable development and international education work, with 24,977 employees. GIZ has over 50 years of experience in a wide variety of areas, including economic development and employment, agriculture and food security, energy and the environment, and peace and security. Our business volume is around 3.7 billion euros. As a public-benefit federal enterprise, GIZ supports the German Government – in particular the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) – and many public and private sector clients in around 120 countries in achieving their objectives in international cooperation. With this aim, GIZ works together with its partners to develop effective solutions that offer people better prospects and sustainably improve their living conditions.
GIZ is intensively involved in the development and promotion of sustainable agri-food systems worldwide. At the innovation forum selected innovations, concepts and projects, contributing to resilient and just food systems will be highlighted.
As an example the GIZ project “Scaling Digital Agriculture Innovations through Start-ups” (SAIS) will be featured prominently. The projects supports African start-ups from the Agriculture and Food sectors in the Seed- and Growth Stages. Offering tailor-made company development measures, the objective of SAIS is to increase the investor readiness of the start-ups, to improve their chances to raise more capital for growth. The digital products, the start-ups offer, must have a positive income impact for their users.
The project concept is baded on the assumption that African start-ups are an important driver for change and can meaningfully contribute to the SDG agenda and to resilient food systems (https://www.giz.de/de/weltweit/83909.html).
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5, 65760 Eschborn
www.giz.de
Petra Jacobi
+49 (0)152 9000 7279
DSM is a global leader in the areas of health, nutrition and bioscience. In September 2021, DSM announced its wider food systems commitments at the UN General Assembly to contribute to health for the people, health for the planet and create sustainable livelihoods, including double-digit on-farm livestock emission reductions. In particular, it’s the Animal Nutrition and Health division acting as a global producer and distributor of feed additives and premixes for the feed industry. The product portfolio covers vitamins, carotinoids, enzymes, eubiotics, phytogenic substances and mycotoxin-deactivators for livestock and companion animals. Based on the SDG 2 (zero hunger), 3 (good health and well-being), 12 (responsible consumption and production), 13 (climate action), and 14 (life under water) the own activities are defined on the following 6 business drivers:
In addition DSM offers dedicated services for the food value chain with a dedicated calculation tool for producers to determine sustainability parameters on animal proteins. Especially the FAO pronounces in its Agri-Food-Systems strategy the role of digital technologies to promote science-based innovations.
Methane is a potent green house gas which will heat up our planet earth in the next 20 years 84 times stronger than CO2 – therefore actions have to be taken. DSM has developed the innovative methane inhibiting feed additive Bovaer® (active ingredient 3-NOP) for dairy cows. By blocking an enzymatic reaction of specific rumen bacteria the methane production of dairy cows via enteric fermentation can be reduced by 30% in a targeted way. The EU Commission approved Bovaer® in April 2022 for use in the EU; the EFSA opinion confirms that the feed additive reduces enteric methane emissions from dairy cows and is safe for the animal and the consumer. The innovative feed additive is the first to be registered in this category of additives based on its beneficial effects on the environment and covering the necessary evaluations on efficacy and safety. Therefore the usage of Bovaer (3-NOP) can significantly reduce methane emissions and lead to a more climate-friendly milk production and via the dairy industry offer more climate-neutral dairy products to the consumer. The direct reduction of greenhouse gases (methane) from agriculture can contribute towards achieving the 1.5°C target from the Paris climate agreement. Bovaer® is one of the fastest and easiest solutions to reduce methane emissions in the dairy value chain; scaled up effectively, Bovaer could have the potential to achieve around 55% of the national methane reduction target in Germany alone. By applying the product in national inventories for reduction of green house gas emissions the implementation along the food chain can be significantly improved.
DSM
Im Breuel 10, 49565 Bramsche
http://www.dsm.com/anh
Dr Matthias Wiemann
matthias.wiemann@dsm.com
+49 (0)5461 882812
Environmental Defense Fund is a global environmental NGO that centers climate change and people in our work, with a dedication to environmental justice and local communities. Established more than 50 years ago, EDF uses science and economics to identify practical solutions to the world’s greatest environmental challenges.
The main pillars of our work fall into three categories: stabilizing the climate, strengthening the ability of people and nature to thrive, and supporting people’s health.
EDF also works to convene a broad range of stakeholders including philanthropy, the private sector, civil society and academia. Today, we work in 30 countries. Our anchor regions are the US, Europe, China and India (as the largest global emitters), and additional countries of implementation across Latin America and Asia.
EDF proposes showcasing two projects at the Innovation Forum:
OpenET – Sustainable water management is one of the most challenging obstacles for food systems. Adequate water supplies are crucial to the ability to produce food for the world’s growing population. Managing water requires careful measurement of its availability and use, but access to this information is limited and expensive. In cooperation with partner organizations including NASA, Google, Habitat Seven and the Desert Research Institute, OpenET provides open-access satellite-based evapotranspiration (ET) data across 17 states in the American west, estimating the field-level water consumption at daily, monthly and yearly intervals. This tool supports climate-friendly food systems by enabling producers to better manage the dwindling water supplies in the American west.
Search for Hidden Treasures: Micronutrients in Our Oceans – Sustainable development and international aid organizations tend to overlook the crucial role that seafood can play in alleviating malnutrition. This project takes the form of an interactive map that charts seafood micronutrient flows between nations, creating a powerful visual of the complex global seafood trade and illustrating the connections — and potential crisis points — created by trade, climate change and human health.
Environmental Defense Fund
Park Avenue South 257, 10010 New York City, New York
http://www.edf.org
Tom Grasso
tgrasso@edf.org
+1 (802) 380-2137
Environmental Defense Fund is a global environmental NGO, that centers climate change and people in our work, with a dedication to environmental justice and local communities. Established more than 50 years ago, EDF uses science and economics to identify practical solutions to the world’s greatest environmental challenges.
The main pillars of our work fall into three categories: stabilizing the climate, strengthening the ability of people and nature to thrive, and supporting people’s health.
EDF also works to convene a broad range of stakeholders including philanthropy, the private sector, civil society and academia. Today, we work in 30 countries. Our anchor regions are the US, Europe, China and India (as the largest global emitters), and additional countries of implementation across Latin America and Asia.
EDF hosts the Secretariat of the Aquatic Blue Food Coalition (please see brief description of the innovation) and is applying on behalf of the Coalition.
Many of the world’s most vulnerable communities depend on fisheries for essential nutrition and income. That said, food from the sea is overlooked in the global food security and nutrition dialogue that focuses on terrestrial agriculture.
Conceptualized at the UN Food System Summit and launched at the UN Ocean Conference in June 2022, the Aquatic Blue Food Coalition was formed by more than 30 governments, NGOs, academic institutions and private sector actors. The Coalition works to ensure blue foods — including fish, shellfish and marine plants — reach their full potential in reducing hunger, malnutrition and poverty, as well as in creating more resilient and equitable global food systems.
The work of Aquatic Blue Food Coalition draws on themes two and three at the 2023 GFFA. Blue foods are a key source of climate-smart animal protein, using less land and creating fewer greenhouse gases in their production than land-based animal protein. Integrating blue foods into sustainable development strategies — as the Coalition seeks to do — will go a long way in supporting a more climate-friendly global food system. Supporting healthy oceans in the pursuit of blue food production also supports aquatic biodiversity, which in turn stabilizes food systems further against climate shocks.
Environmental Defense Fund
Park Avenue South 257, 10010 New York City, New York
http://www.edf.org
Tom Grasso
tgrasso@edf.org
+1 (802) 380-2137
Farm-Food-Climate (FFC) is an innovation platform of the non-profit organisation ProjectTogether and advocates for sustainable agriculture and food systems. FFC bundles initiatives along the entire value chain of the food sector. Together with farmers and partners from civil society, business, science and politics, we develop solutions for the sustainable food systems of the future and measures that together are intended to permanently increase the climate potential of the agricultural and food sector. The FFC implementation project thus brings to life the “Farm-2-Fork Strategy” developed by the European Commission and the report of the Future Commission, and is intended to act as a pioneering example for the necessary transformation of the global food sector. We create spaces for encounters and exchange by bringing together different actors in our formats. In addition, we build and accompany our network and the FFC community and support pioneers in the validation and scaling of impactful measures. We also create and accompany transformative cooperation projects that contribute to the implementation of the identified levers. FFC’s funding partners are the Famtastic Foundation, the Elobau Foundation and the Mercator Foundation Switzerland. The FFC project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) as part of its innovation programme and supervised by the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE) as project management agency.
Farm-Food-Climate directly addresses theme four “How do we better cooperate for sustainable global food systems?” by bringing about social change by bringing institutions into action (top-down) and promoting solutions and innovations into high effectiveness (bottom-up). We do this, among other things, through Open Social Innovation (addressing societal challenges through new solutions from broad participatory processes), Public Citizen Partnerships (institutionalising solutions), Public Goods Building (building infrastructure solutions with in-house capacities) and Solution Funding (financing solutions). For this, it is fundamental to empower our FFC community as well as to involve a wide range of stakeholders from business, academia, civil society and the public sector in the process in order to facilitate dialogue spaces, multi-stakeholder alliances and transformative approaches to solutions. In addition, actors from our community as well as the collaboration and high-impact projects that we set up and accompany deal with the other topics mentioned. Current projects deal, for example, with regenerative agriculture, biodiversity promotion or agroforestry.
Farm-Food-Climate (initiated by ProjectTogether)
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 23, 10178 Berlin
Vanessa Gstettenbauer
vgstettenbauer@projecttogether.org
+49 (0) 151 5353 0193
Harnessing science, technology and innovation for transforming our agrifood systems
The world is not on track to achieve zero hunger by 2030. FAO believes that innovation, science, and technology can accelerate agrifood system transformation so that they become MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable, for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life.
To this end, FAO helps strengthen the link between science, research and development, facilitates the development and scaling up of innovation processes (for example, institutional such as Codex Alimentarius, social such as Farmer Field Schools, and technological innovations such as the Hand-in-Hand geospatial platform).
Due to its unique position as a UN specialized agency, FAO supports science- and evidence-based decision-making and research for development, ensures wide access to innovations, particularly for the most vulnerable, as well as promotes inclusive and participatory science-policy interface at country level, while creating agrifood system innovation capacities. Together its with partners, the Organization supports countries in accelerating innovation processes through platforms and multi-actor innovation approaches.
FAO’s Office of Innovation was created in 2020 to strengthen the innovative spirit, and to ensure that FAO mainstreams innovation across its programmes and units, and aid forging and reinforcing transformative partnerships.
Under its global Hand-in-Hand Initiative, FAO’s innovative open-access Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform provides advanced information on agricultural and food security statistics, crucial for more targeted interventions in times of crisis. Further innovative tools include WaPOR to monitor agricultural water productivity through satellite data, eLocust3 – an innovative technology to improve early warning of possible locust outbreaks –, and the Digital Village Initiative for gender-sensitive rural development and sustainable agrifood transformation.
FAO places particular value to the co-creation innovation pathway, where contrary to linear technology transfer process, innovations are co-generated by a multi-stakeholder team that acquires multiple expertise, has diverse source of inspiration and is centered around a challenge in the farmer’s field or community. Over 40 of such multi-stakeholder innovation approaches have been supported by FAO in 13 countries, including through the Global Network of Digital Agriculture Innovation Hubs, helping the upscaling of state-of-the-art technologies (such as blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things), and other institutional, financial, and policy innovations.
Science communication partnerships and resource mobilization are key enablers of innovation and agrifood system transformation. FAO hosted the first Science and Innovation Forum in October 2022 highlighting the crucial role of science, technology and innovation in transforming our agrifood systems.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Kalman Imre 20, 1054 Budapest
http://www.fao.org/
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Its goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives.
The Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB) leads FAO’s efforts to promote climate change adaptation and mitigation in agrifood systems at local, national and international levels. It provides technical guidance, data and tools for improved decision making and the implementation of adaptation and mitigation measures, while including a broad range of interlinked challenges, including the loss of biodiversity, desertification, land and environmental degradation, the need for accessible, renewable energy, and food and water security. OCB also facilitates the design of National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs), and supports climate actions that countries have publicly pledged to achieve through their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
OCB leads the four following projects, which all support national and local stakeholders in implementing and accelerating actions towards climate-friendly agrifood systems:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome
http://www.fao.org/
PhD Mirella Salvatore
Mirella.Salvatore@fao.org
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft based in Germany is the world’s leading applied research organization. Prioritizing key future-relevant technologies and commercializing its findings in business and industry, it plays a major role in the innovation process. The Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB) has several decades of experience in the development of processes and technologies for innovative water management approaches and the recovery of resources from waste streams.
Initially set up in 1942, Oxfam is a global movement of people who are fighting inequality to end poverty and injustice based on respect for human rights and feminist principles. Across regions, from the local to the global, Oxfam works with thousands of partners, allies, and communities to save and protect lives in emergencies, help people rebuild their livelihoods and campaign for genuine, lasting change, keeping women’s rights at the heart of its activities. Established in 1964, Oxfam Belgique (OBE) is a Belgian non-profit organization and a founding member of the “Stichting” Oxfam International formed in 1995 which, as of 2022, includes 21 member organizations working in about 70 countries.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator sources, supports, and scales high-impact innovations to achieve Zero Hunger. Based in Munich, Germany, we provide WFP employees, entrepreneurs, and start-ups with funding, hands-on support and access to WFP’s global operations. Through the Accelerator, WFP is leveraging unprecedented advances in digital innovation—such as mobile technology, artificial intelligence, big data, and blockchain—and new business models to transform the way we serve vulnerable communities across the world. Building on WFP’s legacy of innovation, the WFP Innovation Accelerator was launched in 2015 to pilot new solutions and scale promising innovations to disrupt hunger. We supported 52 innovation projects at various levels of maturity and positively impacted the lives of 9 million people across 67 countries in 2021.
Fraunhofer’s objectives are to develop sustainable solutions to promote circular economy principles for food and water security. Within Fraunhofer IGB’s projects, GreenUpSahara and NexusHub, we aim for the development of processes and recipes for hydroponic nutrient solutions based on locally available materials. IGB investigates the nutrient content of different available resources (e.g. wastewater, food waste, manure and animal residues), their potential combination and the optimization of their processing for the efficient production of nutrient solutions in hydroponic plant production. Within the NexusHub project, IGB and its partners, investigate the integration of solar energy in order to operate the treatment units as well as the hydroponic systems. In order to promote advancements in this field, IGB engages in collaborations with technical and implementing partners such as Oxfam, WFP, the University of Liège and other members of the h2grow community.
Supporting sustainable food systems and improving food security in contexts subject to humanitarian crises and climatic hazards, are at the heart of OBE’s strategic focus. To operationalize its strategy, OBE builds longstanding partnerships with institutional partners (including WFP) and academic actors (such as University of Liège and Fraunhofer IGB) to implement its programs and activities. Based on its multi-country experience and strategic commitment to food security, OBE has started the “Innovate To Feed (ITF)” Program in 2020 with a view to develop scientific-based solutions and support knowledge-sharing across countries to compare and learn from experiences in different contexts. ITF is an umbrella research program which aims at testing, developing and disseminating low-tech agricultural innovations (green hydroponic fodder production, hydroponic production of vegetables, aquaponics, implementation of innovative water-efficient irrigation systems such as the Waterboxx/Growboxx) in humanitarian contexts through an agroecological lens. The guiding thread is based on cost-efficient approaches supporting sustainable local food production systems, improving local food security and strengthening the resilience of populations living in harsh conditions. ITF gives special attention to production systems that optimize the quantity of water used and value the use of local and recyclable materials/inputs.
H2Grow is WFP’s hydroponics initiative that brings locally adaptable and affordable hydroponic solutions to vulnerable communities worldwide. By developing low-tech systems from local materials and growing fresh vegetables or animal feed in deserts, refugee camps, or informal urban settlements, H2Grow supports food-insecure families to increase their access to fresh food and raise their income. Hydroponics is a soilless cultivation technique that enables plant growth in arid or peri-urban areas. It uses up to 90 percent less water and 75 percent less space while producing crops at growth rates 100 percent faster than traditional agriculture. The H2Grow model therefore addresses multiple climate change related food systems challenges and is applicable to multiple use cases including in crisis induced conditions such as refugee camps
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Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB
Nobelstr. 12, 70569 Stuttgart
https://www.igb.fraunhofer.de/en.html
March Beckett
marc.beckett@igb.fraunhofer.de
+49 (0)711 9704 086
The transformation of food systems, the development of competencies and structures, and the establishment of long-term partnerships play a special role in order to sustainably improve the food and nutrition situation worldwide. This is done on the basis of the right to food and in the target regions of sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and Ukraine. On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE) administers, among others, international research cooperation on global food security and nutrition through project funding and through the management of the BMEL’s Bilateral Trust Fund at the FAO.
By funding international research cooperation on global food and nutrition security, the BMEL strengthens the establishment of partnerships between research institutions for agricultural and nutritional sciences in Germany and in countries of the Global South.The research project “IFNExt: Bringing Insect Farming to the Next Level” focuses on sustainable insect breeding and preservation in Cambodia and Thailand to extend shelf life and produce innovative foods using local resources to combat malnutrition, especially among mothers and children.
BMEL supports FAOs engagement in Ukraine. In this context, BMEL is financing the renovation and capacity expansion of a laboratory, which will enable the disrupted export of agricultural products to be increased again. In addition, the establishment of short-term storage capacities for the current grain harvest is being supported in order to mitigate the effects of the disrupted export. Furthermore, through the BTF, BMEL is contributing to increasing animal health in Ukraine by supporting access to veterinary products and services in rural communities affected by the war. Smallholder farms are also provided with equipment and inputs for animal husbandry. The procurement of generators, for small and medium-sized farms and the food industry, will ensure the necessary power generation.
The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Department 624
Rochusstraße 1, 53123 Bonn
http://www.bmel-kooperationsprogramm.de
624@bmel.bund.de
+49 (0)228 9952 90
Major aims of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) include securing balanced and healthy diets with safe food, providing consumers with clear information when buying food, and promoting strong and sustainable agricultural, forestry and fisheries sectors. Agriculture plays a key role in implementing the human right to food and in tackling the current crises. The BMEL is convinced that it has the responsibility to shape and facilitate the transformation process of our food systems in order to make food production processes resilient, climate-proof and fair, both in Germany and at EU and global level.
The Bilateral Cooperation Programme (BCP) is conceived as an instrument to implement SDG17 (sustainable development – partnerships to achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda). It includes climate-food partnerships that are implemented through government-to-government cooperation with the goal of contributing to the transformation towards sustainable food systems.
The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Department 624
Rochusstraße 1, 53123 Bonn
http://www.bmel-kooperationsprogramm.de
624@bmel.bund.de
+49 (0)228 9952 90
GFA Consulting Group GmbH, based in Hamburg, Germany, is an international consulting company in the field of development cooperation. Our mission is catalyzing change to improve people’s lives in developing and transition countries. GFA’s core service encompasses project and programme planning, project implementation and evaluation in the strategic business areas as follows:
Agriculture & Rural Development
The project Del Campo al Plato (From farm to fork) aims to integrate aspects of biodiversity and ecosystem services into the banana and pineapple production systems.
Via the Biodiversity Innovation Fund, producers are provided with technical advice, materials and equipment during trials and implementation of biodiversity-friendly measures in banana and pineapple production in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.
The main activities include:
The findings of the evaluation are presented on a website and at national, regional and international events of the food sector and relevant stakeholders. Lessons learned and best practice examples are published and made available to a broader public
GFA Consulting Group GmbH
Eulenkrugstraße 82, 22359 Hamburg
http://www.gfa-group.de
Riela Africa is a subsidiary of RIELA Karl-Heinz-Knoop e.K. founded in 2021. RIELA is a major manufacturer of machinery and equipment for grain processing. This includes silo conveying and drying plants, as well as grinding and mixing plants for the production of animal feed.
The range of products also includes belt drying plants and push-turn dryers for the drying of biomass or foodstuffs.
RIELA has set itself the goal of offering its customers energy-efficient products and also demanding energy-efficient and sustainable production from itself.
For food systems to be resilient, we need efficient local and adapted agriculture. The agricultural products produced by farmers/families in Africa suffer from heavy post-harvest losses. Today, 30-50% of products still spoil after harvesting due to lack of processing facilities. Farmers have to sell at poor prices during the harvest. The value added and the income opportunities are taken away from the producer/farmer. It is important that we train and educate farmers better and transfer our knowledge. We have to offer customer-, country- and market-specific machines that make agriculture in Africa better and more efficient. We have adapted our programme and a large number of machines to local needs. For example, we have small manual and electric maize sheller so that the women in the village do not have to gin the grains by hand. We have developed small mobile dryers that can be used in the sense of a machinery ring or village communities. It is immensely important to make agricultural products storable after the harvest so that the products can be processed later. Only with adapted education and training, adapted technology is a sustainable and safe food supply possible.
RIELA Africa GmbH
Hansestraße 12, 48477 Riesenbeck
http://www.riela.de
Klaus Kunkemöller
info@riela.de
+49 (0)545 4931 60
Rifinex Global, a Rivoli Group AG Co, is a swiss fintech provider that specialises in private and capital market asset tokenization, offering smart infrastructure solutions throughout the issuance, exchange and life-cycle-management of digitized private market and derivate asset tokens.
As a first mover in the digital asset landscape, Rifinex leverages the efficiency of leading technologies to fundamentally disrupt financial market accessibility for SMEs, organisations and institutions, seeking to place and distribute value added funding instruments on a global scale.
The pilot project, created in collaboration with Colossalfish, represents a use case of how socio-economic projects in the field of food security can be financed and tracked in a digitally transparent way, from financing to production and distribution, in collaboration with the Rifinex platform.
RIFINEX Global GmbH, powered by Rivoli Group AG
General-Guisan-Strasse 6, 6300 Zug
http://www.rifinex.com
BVVG Bodenverwertungs- und -verwaltungs GmbH is the state-owned agency responsible for the administration and privatisation of state-owned farm and forest land in Eastern Germany. It was founded in 1992 and has since played an active role in the transformation process of the former GDR, aiding its transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy.
BVVG holds the mandate to privatise approximately 1.8 million parcels of land with a total area of (originally) 3.2 million ha, and has therefore generated a remarkable amount of know-how and expertise in the field of IT-supported land management, lease management, land sales through auctions and tender, contract management, forest management, nature protection, redevelopment of contaminated sites as well as methods for land valuation. BVVG was also involved in the process of restitution and allocation of land ownership rights to the different administrative levels of the German State and has therefore contributed to the formation of a well-balanced ownership structure in Eastern Germany.
Since the year 2000, BVVG also provides consultancy services to Eastern European, Central Asian and African countries on the privatisation of farm and forest land, land market development, spatial planning, land consolidation, capacity and institution building and land administration. In this context, BVVG has contributed to various projects of international cooperation.
One of the main preconditions for food production are secure ownership- and use-rights on land. This facilitates investments into agricultural production and secures food production of subsistence farming systems as well as small and medium size farmers. BVVG deals with the topic ‘access to land’ in the framework of various international projects the company is involved in, inter alia in Russia, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Serbia, Kosovo, Kazakhstan and Mongolia.
Aside from being involved in projects of international cooperation, BVVG has organised various seminars and workshops on land privatisation and land market development in partner countries, including Ukraine, Ethiopia, Belarus, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Georgia, Macedonia, Serbia Mongolia, Bulgaria and South Africa. Moreover, BVVG has organised study tours for high ranking delegations from all over the world. BVVG also offers short term experts for international projects.
German Nutrition Society (DGE)
Godesberger Allee 136, 53175 Bonn
https://www.dge.de/
Dr. Johanna Conrad
conrad@dge.de
+49 (0) 228 3776 660
What is the SWG?
The “SWG” stands for Regional Rural Development Standing Working Group in South Eastern Europe. It is an International Intergovernmental Organization consisting of governmental institutions responsible for agriculture and rural development in respective countries and territories.
It is a platform for networking and regional co – operation among the SEE countries and territories in the field of agriculture and rural development.
It was founded on the basis of a common wish to establish an organization for sustainable rural development in SEE. As an organization the SWG is a non-political body, acting in a spirit of friendship and good neighborliness and enhancing mutual respect and confidence, dialogue and cooperation among the Member Institutions.
The Regional Rural Development Standing Working Group (SWG) in South Eastern Europe
SWG Head Office/Secretariat
Blvd. Goce Delcev 18
MRTV Building, 12th Floor
P.O.Box 659,
1000 Skopje – Macedonia
Bogdanka Leveska Gjorshoska
bogdanka.gjorshoska@swg-seerural.org
+389 23217708
UNIDO is the specialized agency of the United Nations with a unique mandate to promote and accelerate sustainable industrial and economic development. UNIDO supports countries to industrialize in ways that foster digital and green transitions and accelerate progress with the Sustainable Development Goals.
The world is faced with an array of challenges:
UNIDO can help its Member States overcome them. UNIDO’s priorities are:
The UNIDO motto is “Progress by innovation”.
It is imperative that governments, industry, businesses, and society at large think outside-the-box. UNIDO supports innovation across the whole spectrum of industrial development.
Please find more details about our organization at the following link: https://www.unido.org.
Our submission should be listed under theme 4) Improve collaboration for sustainable global food systems
UNIDO promotes sustainable and inclusive business opportunities through agribusiness and value chain development, to create shared prosperity and advance economic competitiveness.
Through a range of technical cooperation services targeted at food and non-food sectors. TThe Divisionof Agribusiness and Infrastructure Development assists developing countries to add value to their agricultural output and generate off-farm employment opportunities in rural communities, thereby contributing to rural economic development and structural transformation. The Division fosters innovative approaches to building human capital and raising productivity, in particular through vocational and entrepreneurship training and industrial skills development in partnership with the private sector. Collaborating with International Financial Institutions, private sector, and other UN agencies, the department also supports rural industrial infrastructure for the development of agribusiness corridors that promote private sector investment in agriculture and agribusiness. The activities contribute to food security, poverty reduction, youtah employment, women’s economic empowerment, addressing the root causes of migration at the origin, which drive growth in productivity and employment, and create the prosperity in rural communities.
In particular, the Division of Agribusiness and Infrastructure Development delivers the impact through the three units below: the Rural Devellopment, Agro Industries and Industrial Parks Unit; the Food Security and Food Systems Unit; and the Agro-Innovation and Bioeconomy Unit. please find further details and links to actual projects, videos and ressources at the following link: https://www.unido.org/department-agribusiness.
Please note that this information is currently only available in English.
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
Wagramerstr. 5, A-1400 Vienna
http://www.unido.org
Niels Schultz
n.schulz@unido.org
+43 (0)126 0263 597
URGENCI is the international grassroot network of all forms of regional and Local Solidarity-based Partnerships for Agroecology (LSPAs), of which Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is the best-known iteration. URGENCI is an acronym standing for An Urban-Rural networks: Generating New forms of exchanges between CItizens. As a social movement, Réseau International URGENCI brings together citizens, small-scale food producers, consumers, activists and researchers representing Local Solidarity-based Partnerships for Agroecology networks and initiatives in over 40 countries. URGENCI’s main objective is to develop a transnational network of regional and local partnerships between producers and consumers. Education, broadly, is the founding activity of the network: sharing experiences and educational materials is a top priority to support local groups in improving their practices and building a solid pan-European and global community. This practical work to build, develop, and empower LSPAs is motivated by our involvement in the international movements for food sovereignty and solidarity economy. URGENCI’s strength lies in its in-house expertise with knowledge sharing, transmission, and delivery in the context of adult education and training programs. Much of our work connects people and networks across borders so that they may learn from each other through development and the sharing of practical tools. We counter the problems of intensive agricultural production and distribution with the solution of connecting family farmers to just, equitable and supportive markets. We are committed to partnership, local exchange, and direct relationships where producers are fairly paid and consumers share the risks and rewards of sustainable agriculture in return for their share of healthy, nutritious, locally-grown food.
URGENCI’s Learning Village (“The Hub”) is a one-stop space for digital learning, training, and knowledge within URGENCI’s network. Imagined as a virtual village, the Hub offers a warm, inviting, and accessible entrance for users looking to explore the core values and principles of local, solidarity-based partnerships for agroecology (LSPA).
The village is organised thematically around different houses. Each house represents a different category of trainings, resources, and events. The village houses are: agroecology, community-supported fisheries, community-supported agriculture, territorial food systems, and land and food policies.
The broader goal of the URGENCI learning village is to provide a dynamic space for URGENCI members and other users within our agroecological networks to engage with resources, materials, videos, templates, and training exercises from our various projects. However, it is also to provide a space where users can learn, contribute, and strengthen the growing movement of engaged eaters, consumers, and producers.
Our resource library on the Hub, PRESTO (participatory resource sharing tool), is a database of training materials, documents, reports and toolkits, interviews, videos, and much more. This database is both participatory (users can share and contribute to the database) and dynamically organised and tagged by theme, publication type, language, and project.
Hub users can use the URGENCI village to learn and grow individually but also to organise live trainings on sophisticated e-learning courses with a cohort of participants. Training materials from European projects, too, are hosted on the Hub and can live in perpetuity as complements to other Hub resources. This gives a second life to projects that often end at the expiration of a project’s funding.
URGENCI
Rue Moulin au Roy 21, 14000 Caen
Nathalie Markiefka
nathalie.markiefka@urgenci.net
URGENCI is the international grassroot network of all forms of regional and Local Solidarity-based Partnerships for Agroecology (LSPAs), of which Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is the best-known iteration. URGENCI is an acronym standing for An Urban-Rural networks: GEnerating New forms of exchanges between CItizens. As a social movement, Réseau International URGENCI brings together citizens, small-scale food producers, consumers, activists and researchers representing Local Solidarity-based Partnerships for Agroecology networks and initiatives in over 40 countries. URGENCI’s main objective is to develop a transnational network of regional and local partnerships between producers and consumers. Education, broadly, is the founding activity of the network: sharing experiences and educational materials is a top priority to support local groups in improving their practices and building a solid pan-European and global community. This practical work to build, develop, and empower LSPAs is motivated by our involvement in the international movements for food sovereignty and solidarity economy. URGENCI’s strength lies in its in-house expertise with knowledge sharing, transmission, and delivery in the context of adult education and training programs. Much of our work connects people and networks across borders so that they may learn from each other through development and the sharing of practical tools. We counter the problems of intensive agricultural production and distribution with the solution of connecting family farmers to just, equitable and supportive markets. We are committed to partnership, local exchange, and direct relationships where producers are fairly paid and consumers share the risks and rewards of sustainable agriculture in return for their share of healthy, nutritious, locally-grown food.
Das Learning Village (“The Hub”) von URGENCI ist eine zentrale Anlaufstelle für digitales Lernen, Schulungen und Wissen innerhalb des URGENCI-Netzwerks. Der Hub ist als virtuelles Dorf konzipiert und bietet einen warmen, einladenden und zugänglichen Zugang für Nutzer, die die Grundwerte und Prinzipien der lokalen, solidarischen Partnerschaften für Agrarökologie (LSPA) erkunden möchten.
Das Dorf ist thematisch um verschiedene Häuser herum organisiert. Jedes Haus steht für eine andere Kategorie von Schulungen, Ressourcen und Veranstaltungen. Die Häuser des Dorfes sind: Agrarökologie, gemeinschaftsgestützte Fischerei, gemeinschaftsgestützte Landwirtschaft, territoriale Lebensmittelsysteme und Land- und Lebensmittelpolitik.
Das übergeordnete Ziel des URGENCI-Lerndorfs ist es, einen dynamischen Raum für URGENCI-Mitglieder und andere Nutzer innerhalb unserer agrarökologischen Netzwerke zu schaffen, um Ressourcen, Materialien, Videos, Vorlagen und Schulungsübungen aus unseren verschiedenen Projekten zu nutzen. Es soll aber auch ein Ort sein, an dem die Nutzer lernen, etwas beitragen und die wachsende Bewegung engagierter Esser, Verbraucher und Produzenten stärken können.
Unsere Ressourcenbibliothek auf dem Hub, PRESTO (Participatory Resource Sharing Tool), ist eine Datenbank mit Schulungsmaterialien, Dokumenten, Berichten und Toolkits, Interviews, Videos und vielem mehr. Diese Datenbank ist sowohl partizipativ (Nutzer können die Datenbank mit anderen teilen und zu ihr beitragen) als auch dynamisch organisiert und nach Thema, Publikationstyp, Sprache und Projekt gekennzeichnet.
Hub-Nutzer können das URGENCI-Dorf nutzen, um individuell zu lernen und sich weiterzuentwickeln, aber auch, um Live-Schulungen zu anspruchsvollen E-Learning-Kursen mit einer Kohorte von Teilnehmern zu organisieren. Auch Schulungsmaterialien aus europäischen Projekten werden im Hub gehostet und können auf Dauer als Ergänzung zu anderen Hub-Ressourcen genutzt werden. Dies gibt Projekten, die oft mit dem Auslaufen der Projektfinanzierung enden, ein zweites Leben.
URGENCI
Rue Moulin au Roy 21, 14000 Caen
Nathalie Markiefka
nathalie.markiefka@urgenci.net
+33 751067941
WIWEX GmbH was founded 2007 by the Association of Students and Alumni of Humboldt University’s School of Business and Economics. Its aim is to support the university in its activities and fundraising. It is doing so by organizing workshop and fairs and cooperating in transfer projects like the cooperation of Humboldt University with the Universidad de La Habana and its Foundation. In this respect WIWEX has been involved in various transfer projects, most notably the formation of business incubators and the support of these projects up until the financing of international patent applications. The cooperation between Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universidad de La Habana and WIWEX exists since 2003 and involves amongst others an international Summer School in Economics and Management which is providing constant training to Cuban students and academics since 20 years.
WIWEX GmbH, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin the Universidad de La Habana and its Foundation are co-founders of InCuba, Cuba’s first academic incubator for innovation and business ideas. Founded in 2015 the incubator InCuba has since had an impresive performance, and incubators and innovation labs are now introduced at all leading Cuban universities. Since 2019 a strong focus has been placed on agricultural innovations and agricultural startups, starting with a first round of projects co-sponsored by FAO. 2022 with financial support from DAAD as one of the first DAAD SDG Programms, a seperate incubator / accelerator soley for the promotion of agricultural projects has been founded.
During the GFFA we wish to promote:
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WIWEX GmbH
Spandauer Str. 1, 10178 Berlin
http://www.wiwex.net
Jan Hansen
jan.hansen@wiwex.net
+49 (0)163 6130 630