Objective
PROIntensAfrica intends to develop a proposal for a long term research and innovation partnership between Europe and Africa, focusing on the improvement of the food and nutrition security and the livelihoods of African farmers by exploring and exploiting the diversity of pathways to sustainable intensification of African agro-food systems. The exploration will include environmental, economic and social externalities along the whole value chains. PROIntensAfrica has the ambition to formulate a research and innovation agenda, identifying the domains in need for further research to realize the potential of African food systems. In addition, PROIntensAfrica will suggest governance mechanisms that are effective in supporting the partnership. Key is the perception that pooling resources is the best way to align existing and initiate new research. This perception follows the policy of the EC, where instruments of joint programming like ERA-NET, JPI and article 185 aim to accomplish synergy and increase the effectiveness of resources. Pooling resources goes beyond the scientific domain and reaches into the policy domain. Consequently, besides being rooted in sound and challenging research, a partnership proposal needs to meet national and international policies to fly. Therefore PROIntensAfrica pay specific attention to engage with the policy domain, as exemplified by the intended creation of a policy support group.
The rationale of the project is that a variety of pathways leads to sustainable intensification of African food systems. Different pathways are advocated in literature. High-input farming systems, for example, contrast with organic farming systems, each with their own supporters and criticasters. It is the conviction of the PROIntensAfrica consortium that moving beyond that debate will open exciting new pathways, and that combining elements of different systems will yield innovative systems that are optimally adapted to specific contexts.
Field of science
- /humanities/languages and literature/literature studies
- /medical and health sciences/health sciences/nutrition
- /agricultural sciences/agriculture, forestry, and fisheries/agriculture/sustainable agriculture
- /social sciences/sociology/governance
- /agricultural sciences/animal and dairy science
Call for proposal
H2020-SFS-2014-1
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Funding Scheme
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
6708 PB Wageningen
Netherlands
Participants (23)
PMB CT173 Accra
75016 Paris
Dakar
1348 Louvain La Neuve
Gaborone
750 07 Uppsala
Accra
0083 Pretoria
Participation ended
1349 007 Lisboa
00790 Helsinki
Kampala
1165 Kobenhavn
Entebbe
53113 Bonn
SE10 9LS London
16500 Praha
28040 Madrid
R93 Carlow
1180 Wien
2100 Godollo
1430 Aas
04 Ouagadougou
1349 017 Lisboa