AgriFood Africa Connect
AgriFood Africa Connect brings innovative people and organisations across the UK and Africa together to address key AgriFood challenges in Africa.
AgriFood Africa Connect brings innovative people and organisations across the UK and Africa together to address key AgriFood challenges in Africa. We build diverse connections across the UK and Africa to drive positive change that aligns with the UK’s Overseas Development Assistance goals.
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AgriFood Africa Connect is part of GCRF AgriFood Africa. GCRF AgriFood Africa is funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and delivered by Innovate UK. It aims to develop sustainable management of the food production systems in Africa, in a way that reduces poverty, increases economic prosperity and improves well-being in Africa. Click here to find out more about GCRF AgriFood Africa.
Related Opportunities
Global Innovation Exchange Challenge: Innovative Solutions to Beneficiation of Water Treatment Residue
Opens: 16/11/2022 Closes: 31/01/2023
This Innovation Exchange challenge, delivered by Innovate UK KTN through the Global Alliance Africa project, is supporting Rand Water to identify innovative solutions for the utilisation of water treatment residue.
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Global Innovation Exchange Challenge: Accelerating the Concentration of Water Treatment Residue
Opens: 16/11/2022 Closes: 31/01/2023
This Innovation Exchange challenge, delivered by Innovate UK KTN through the Global Alliance Africa project, is supporting Rand Water to identify innovative solutions to accelerate the concentration of Water Treatment Residue (WTR).
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Travel Grants : GCRF AgriFood Africa Innovation Awards Round 4
Opens: 06/12/2022 Closes: 23/12/2022
Apply for up to £8000 per organisation for travel to support new collaborations between organisations in the UK and Africa.
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Innovating and Collaborating to Reduce & Reuse African Fresh Produce Waste
We explore key food waste challenges, identify best practice circular economy initiatives and showcase innovations that can reduce or help reuse food waste.
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Innovating and Collaborating to Reduce & Reuse African Fresh Produce Waste
We explore key food waste challenges, identify best practice circular economy initiatives and showcase innovations that can reduce or help reuse food waste.
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21/11/2022
Innovation and collaboration to address food loss and waste in African fresh produce: Event roundup and next steps
AgriFood Africa Connect brought together stakeholders from the UK and Africa to explore key food waste challenges, identify best practice circular economy initiatives and showcase innovations that can reduce or help reuse food waste.
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20/09/2022
Innovation Champions: Petiole APP presents a fresh approach to Kenya’s long-standing False Codling Moth challenge
In an effort to remedy a challenge faced by thousands of Kenyan farmers, the Innovation Exchange (iX) challenge competition, Global Alliance Africa delivered by Innovate UK KTN supported Flamingo Horticulture International, which grows chillies within several regions in Kenya, to identify innovative approaches in pest control for the detection and screening of false codling moth.
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Programmes related to AgriFood Africa Connect
Agrifood Africa Connect
AgriFood Africa Connect brings innovative people and organisations across the UK and Africa together to address key AgriFood challenges in Africa. We build diverse connections across the UK and Africa to drive positive change that aligns with the UK’s Overseas Development Assistance goals.
AgriFood Africa Connect Map
Showcasing the AgriFood innovation landscape in Africa, the AgriFood Africa Connect Map makes it easier for UK and African organisations to collaborate on projects, provides information on the Agriculture and Food (AgriFood) sector across Africa, and helps connect innovators to enable collaboration and address key global challenges.
Global Alliance Africa
Global Alliance Africa is a six-year project funded by UK Aid through Innovate UK (GCRF) and FCDO.