Improving dietary and health data for decision making in agriculture and nutrition actions in Africa

The report covers activities and conference sessions regarding questions and strategies for implementation of the project which aims to develop and build capacity of an information and communications technology-based (ICT-based) platform. This will collect low-cost, high-frequency, high-resolution dietary and health data, and will combine accuracy and frequency through recording events in near-real time. The workshop focused on the following issues: i) What data should the tool/platform collect? ii) Tool-functionality, and methods for testing it, along with comparison to traditional data collection methods iii) Potential uses and scalability of the tool

Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)

The origins of the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) date back to 1994, when the Ministers of Agriculture from Eastern and Southern Africa saw the need for an independent policy input to address chronic food insecurity and the challenges of managing natural resources. In 1997, the Deans of the Faculties of Agriculture from eight countries in the SADC met and agreed to set up FANRPAN in response to the decision of the ministers. Following the drafting of a constitution with support from USAID funding, FANRPAN was officially registered as a private voluntary organization (PVO) in Zimbabwe in 2003. FANRPAN has maintained its registration in Zimbabwe, although it has since moved its regional secretariat office to Pretoria, South Africa where it operates as a fully-fledged international office with diplomatic status. The broad objectives of FANRPAN are to: Promote the development of appropriate agricultural policies in order to reduce poverty, Enhance food security in Africa, and Promote sustainable agricultural development in Africa. Since 2005, FANRPAN has pioneered regional learning and knowledge acquisition in agricultural and food security policy analysis and advocacy, initially in Southern and Eastern Africa, and latterly extending its contribution and reach to continental and global levels. Through strong collaborative and experiential learning with its constituent stakeholders at national and regional levels, FANRPAN has progressively developed its food and agricultural policy engagement and action cycle which is the cornerstone of its distinctive approach to innovation and learning for policy and capacity development at regional and national levels.https://repository.upenn.edu/aboutthinktanks/1021/thumbnail.jp

Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)

The origins of the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) date back to 1994, when the Ministers of Agriculture from Eastern and Southern Africa saw the need for an independent policy input to address chronic food insecurity and the challenges of managing natural resources. In 1997, the Deans of the Faculties of Agriculture from eight countries in the SADC met and agreed to set up FANRPAN in response to the decision of the ministers. Following the drafting of a constitution with support from USAID funding, FANRPAN was officially registered as a private voluntary organization (PVO) in Zimbabwe in 2003. FANRPAN has maintained its registration in Zimbabwe, although it has since moved its regional secretariat office to Pretoria, South Africa where it operates as a fully-fledged international office with diplomatic status. The broad objectives of FANRPAN are to: Promote the development of appropriate agricultural policies in order to reduce poverty, Enhance food security in Africa, and Promote sustainable agricultural development in Africa. Since 2005, FANRPAN has pioneered regional learning and knowledge acquisition in agricultural and food security policy analysis and advocacy, initially in Southern and Eastern Africa, and latterly extending its contribution and reach to continental and global levels. Through strong collaborative and experiential learning with its constituent stakeholders at national and regional levels, FANRPAN has progressively developed its food and agricultural policy engagement and action cycle which is the cornerstone of its distinctive approach to innovation and learning for policy and capacity development at regional and national levels.https://repository.upenn.edu/aboutthinktanks/1021/thumbnail.jp

End-of-project report for the period 15 August 2014 - 15 February 2015 / Research Support Project : Research to Feed Africa - High level Policy Dialogue (CIFSRF)

The Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) was designed to contribute to solving global problems of food and nutritional insecurity through applied, collaborative, results-oriented research. To date (2015) 21 large agriculture and nutrition research consortia have been supported in 20 countries. The Research to Feed Africa dialogue and conference (2014) brought together 228 delegates from over 33 countries. This is the end-of-grant project report covering the period 15 August 2014 to 15 February 2015 with a detailed report of progress made in achieving milestones