Descripción del proyecto
Aprovechamiento del enorme potencial de los cultivos africanos
El cambio climático influirá considerablemente en el futuro de la agricultura y el sistema alimentario mundial. Una solución es una agricultura respetuosa con el clima. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos InnoFoodAfrica explorará cultivos africanos respetuosos con el clima (cereales, legumbres, tubérculos y frutales) en Etiopía, Kenia, Sudáfrica y Uganda, presentándolos como ingredientes saludables para luchar contra la malnutrición. Se centrará en grupos vulnerables, como niños desnutridos, mujeres embarazadas y adultos que corren riesgo de sufrir obesidad. Para reducir el desperdicio de alimentos y crear nuevas cadenas de valor, el proyecto aumentará la diversidad de productos alimentarios saludables y nutritivos basados en cultivos locales y educará a la población acerca de unos hábitos alimenticios saludables. El proyecto también convertirá los flujos procedentes de la cosecha de cultivos en biomateriales para ofrecer a las empresas de envasado con plástico una alternativa sostenible.
Objetivo
InnoFoodAfrica will explore climate-smart African crops (cereal-pulse-rootInnoFoodAfrica will explore climate-smart African crops (cereal-pulse-root crop-fruit) in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.
The project will develop and demonstrate optimal solutions for cultivation practices, processing and productization towards new value chains, thus enhancing nutritionally balanced food consumption in urban Africa and creating opportunities to reach international markets. The main output is to demonstrate the huge potential of the African crops as healthy ingredients in combating both malnutrition. The emphasis is to target vulnerable groups, such as malnourished children, pregnant women and adults under the risk of obesity, by increasing the diversity of affordable, nutrient-dense and healthy food products based on local crops, and educating people for improved eating habits.
The project will address key bottlenecks of African food value chains - low productivity, limited access to urban markets, affordability and convenience of end products - by tailoring actions on local context to develop novel technologies in agriculture, food manufacturing and use of residual biomass for packaging, and concurrently to investigate food safety, food security and food loss reduction. Trainings, targeted especially women, will be organized in all four African countries. The trainings include e.g. farming productivity of indigenous crops, effective post-harvest technologies, valorization of biomass residue materials, nutritional guiding, and entrepreneurial skills. The project will also foster international cooperation with other EU-Africa and inter-African projects (FNSSA) e.g. by organising common conferences or workshops, technology transfer and training videos.
The project is designed by a strong multidisciplinary consortium of 20 partners, dominated by 15 African actors from all four focus countries with deep understanding of local needs, and supported by 5 European partners.
Ámbito científico
- social sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalities
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- engineering and technologyother engineering and technologiesfood technologyfood safety
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- agricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass
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Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SFS-2019-2
Régimen de financiación
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinador
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