A new era for Africa – EU Science and Innovation Partnerships 10 September 2020. Presentation by: Hans Joerg LUTZEYER Bioeconomy & Food Systems DG Research & Innovation Healthy Planet Directorate European Commission

1. EU-AU Research and Innovation
Partnership on Food and Nutrition
Security and Sustainable Agriculture
Hans Joerg LUTZEYER
Bioeconomy & Food Systems
DG Research & Innovation
Healthy Planet Directorate
European Commission
A new era for Africa – EU Science and
Innovation Partnerships
10 September 2020

2. Why FNSSA?
• Joint Africa-EU Summit (April, 2014)
• SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and
improved nutrition, and promote sustainable
agriculture – Role of research and innovation
• Adoption of the ten year Road Map (April, 2016 -
2026)
• Implementation under the oversight of the FNSSA
Working Group

3. Cross cutting issues
Sustainable
intensification
Agriculture
and food
systems for
nutrition
Expansion
and
improvement
of agricultural
markets and
trade
4 common R&I priority areas

4. EU-Africa R&I Partnership on food and
nutrition security and sustainable
agriculture
•Adopted in April 2016 science and technology
cooperation for a 10 year period
•Funding from EU Horizon 2020, African Union
Research Grants, EU and AU Member
Countries of more than 286 million Euros
foreseen until 2020

5. EU-Africa R&I Partnership on food and
nutrition security and sustainable agriculture
Currently three funding Programmes active:
• African Union Research Grants: Small Projects, often an
African coordinated AU-EU partnership – 17 + 15 projects
• ERANet- LEAPAgri – Joint funding from 9 African + 10
European Countries – 27 projects: Mid-Size Projects
• Horizon 2020: Large Projects – 10 + 17 projects
And close collaboration with the DG DEVCO initiative
DeSIRA (Development Smart Innovation through
Research in Agriculture): 19 projects

6. Food systems Africa: 3 projects for EUR 21 M
6
Project Description
InnoFoodAfrica - Locally-driven co-development
of plant-based value chains towards more
sustainable African food system with healthier
diets and export potential
8/2020-7/2023, RIA, EUR 6.466 M
Addressing key bottlenecks of African food systems,
limited access to urban markets, affordability and
convenience by local actions to develop novel
technologies in agriculture, food manufacturing and use
of residual biomass for packaging.
HealthyFoodAfrica - Improving nutrition in Africa
by strengthening the diversity, sustainability,
resilience and connectivity of food systems
6/2020-11/2024, RIA, EUR 6.917 M
Raise consumer awareness about healthy nutrition,
whilst enhancing the capacity of producers and food
system actors to deliver diverse, nutritious, high quality,
affordable food. The approach is co-developed in ten
context-specific Innovation Food System Labs in Ghana,
Benin, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya & Zambia.
FOODLAND - FOOD and Local, Agricultural, and
Nutritional Diversity
9/2020-8/2024, RIA, EUR 7 M
FOODLAND will create and validate (TRL 5) 12
prototypes for crop and fish farming and food
processing systems that will deliver 17 novel food
products. FOODLAND will empower smallholder farmers
and food operators to foster nutrition-responsive and
sustainable agro-biodiversity in 14 local innovation food
hubs.
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7. Sustainable Intensification Africa: 4 recently
selected projects for EUR 30 M
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Project Description
SustInAfrica - Sustainable intensification of food
production through resilient farming systems in
West & North Africa
9/2020-8/2025, RIA, EUR 7 M
To empower smallholder farmers, small and medium
enterprises and various government and non-
governmental organisations in Ghana, Burkina Faso,
Niger, Egypt and Tunisia to successfully intensify food
production and deliver ecosystem services in a
sustainable and resilient manner.
UPSCALE - UPSCALING THE BENEFITS OF PUSH-
PULL TECHNOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION IN EAST
AFRICA
11/2020-10/2025, RIA, EUR 7.655 M
UPSCALE will explore the upscaling of bio-control of
pests of agricultural crops by combining repellent
"push" plants and trap "pull" plants from individual
fields to farm, landscape and regional scales, and from
cereal to other crops and cultivation systems.
SustainSAHEL - SYNERGISTIC USE AND
PROTECTION OF NATURAL RESOURCES FOR
RURAL LIVELIHOODS THROUGH SYSTEMATIC
INTEGRATION OF CROPS, SHRUBS AND
LIVESTOCK IN THE SAHEL
9/2020-8/2025, RIA, EUR 7.499 M
The overall objective of SustainSAHEL is to enhance the
resilience and intensification potential of smallholder
agricultural farming systems to climate change through
scalable innovations on crop-shrub-livestock (CSL)
integration. SustainSAHEL aims to develop CSL systems
through innovation platforms (IPs) in order to improve
productivity and farmers’ income.
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8. Sustainable Intensification Africa: 4 recently
selected projects for EUR 30 M
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Project Description
EWA-Belt - Linking East and West African
farming systems experience into a BELT of
sustainable intensification
10/2020-9/2024, RIA, EUR 7.499 M
The EWA-BELT project aims at developing sustainable
intensification of agricultural production in organic,
agroforestry and mixed crop and livestock farming
systems in 38 study areas of 6 countries belonging to
East (Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania) and West (Burkina
Faso, Ghana, Sierra Leone) Africa. The research
activities, carried out in Farmer Field Research Units
(FFRU), will address areas including marginalized
and/or abandoned lands and existing agricultural lands
to increase their yield potential.
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9. THANK YOU
Co-Chairs, Members and Secretariat of the FNSSA
Working Group
Co-Chairs: Laila Lokosang, Monica Idinoba, (African Union Commission); Hans-
Joerg Lutzeyer, Martha Iglesias (European Commission)
Members: Shadrack Moephuli, South Africa; Henning Knipschild, Germany; Philippe
Petithuguenin, France; Christophe Larose, EC; Tarek El-Arabi, Egypt; Luis Mira da
Silva, Portugal; Irene Annor-Frempong, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa;
John Igene, Nigeria; Mustafa Mohammed Ali El Balla, Sudan
Secretariat: Melissa Plath, Refilwe Mashigo
Project Database: https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/leap4fnssa-projects?q=*
Roadmap: http://www.rinea.org/en/844.php