On October 12, 2022, IPES-Food, SWISSAID, the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT, AFSA, Agroecology Coalition and Biovision jointly organized a side event at the 50th meeting of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS).
Category Archives: Policy
Reinforcement of peasant seed systems dynamics in Chad
Between the 28th and 31st of March 2022 was held the Planning and Capacity-building Workshop for Farmers’ Organizations in Advocacy for the Promotion of Peasant Seed Systems (PSS) in the Province of Mayo-Kebbi, Chad.
Kickoff visit in India
Partner’s orientation and planning workshop for the CROPS4HD project was held in the first week of August this year. This meeting brought all the project coordination and implementation together to build a shared understanding of the roles, functions, and responsibilities for the inception and main phase.
Kickoff visit in Niger
CROPS4HD Niger started its activities in July 2021 with a workshop on 22 September with the project supervision team. The launch took place in the Dogondoutchi prefecture in the presence of the prefect and the coordination body of technical services.
Kickoff visit in Chad
In Chad, the introduction phase of the project took place from 2021 September 11 – 17. All CROP4HD consortium members met in Ndjamena, the capital of the country during this period.
Kickoff visit in Tanzania
In Tanzania, the project started in July 2021 with a field visit by the consortium members. The first objective was to define how and in which regions and districts the CROPS4HD project will focus its action.
CROPS4HD builds climate resilience
The project CROPS4HD promotes neglected and underutilised crops that are more resilient to the impacts of climate change as a strategy for farmers to adapt their production to the new reality of climate change.
Fonio millet, Lablab bean or Bambara groundnuts: the rediscovered crops
The new SWISSAID project CROPS4HD focuses on local, almost forgotten crops to improve the food security of people in the South.
Gender and diversity mainstreaming
CROPS4HD designed its project to take women’s different roles and realities into account. Specifically, following recommendations extracted from the four preparatory gender and conflict studies, the project integrated the study findings in the project design and will characterize the work in the four countries.