This document discusses the PROIntensAfrica partnership, which aims to establish a long-term partnership between Africa and the EU to raise sustainable food and nutrition security in Africa. It lists African and European partner organizations and outlines the partnership's strategic proposal, including aligning efforts for a new way of working, an innovative research and innovation agenda, and connecting different areas. The partnership seeks to serve the EU-Africa policy dialogue and contribute to other initiatives while building on existing research collaborations between Africa and the EU.

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PROIntensAfrica – Towards a long-term Africa-EU partnership to raise
sustainable food and nutrition security in Africa
Carolyn Glynn SLU - Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences
The PROIntensAfrica
partnership approach
- visions for future and transitional
partnerships
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• African partners: FARA - Forum for Agricultural Research in
Africa (Ghana), CORAF/WECARD – Central and West African
Organisation for Agricultural Research (Senegal), CCARDESA -
Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development
for Southern Africa: (Botswana), ASARECA - Association for
Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa
(Uganda), AFAAS – African Forum for Agricultural Advisory services
(Uganda), ARC- African Research Council (South Africa), CSRI-CRI
- Crops Research Institute (Ghana) and INERA- Institute for
Environment and Agriculture (Burkina Faso).
• European partners: Wageningen UR (The Netherlands), CIRAD
(France), SLU (Sweden), UCL (Belgium), University of Lisbon
(Portugal), Luke (Finland), University of Copenhagen (Denmark),
ZEF (Germany), INIA (Spain), NRI (England), Teagasc (Ireland),
BOKU (Austria), University of Life Sciences (Czech Republic).
PROIntensAfrica Partners
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• A sense of urgency
• Potential to scale up small initiatives
• Coherent science-based research approach
• Diversity in sustainable intensification of
agri-food systems
• Ready to take on the controversial issues
• Willing to invest time to create added value
The concepts that unite us:
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The bottom line – we are ready
for a new way of working
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• Long-term partnership for alignment
• Innovative R&I agenda – harnessing
potential of diversity
• Impact-oriented partnership for
sustainable development
IntensAfrica strategic proposal:
partnership in three dimensions
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• Diversity approach address controversial issues
• Aligns efforts
• Connects:
• funders to long-term R&I efforts
• research to policy
• results to innovation and application
• agriculture to other sectors
• researchers to researchers.
IntensAfrica partnership approach,
makes even more sense now:
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• Merge step-by-step toward
common partnerships
• Long-term governance
• Coherent interactions other
initiatives
• Serve the political dialogue –
mutual priorities, mutual ownership,
• Feed policy makers with the
’situation on the ground’
Our vision for the future: even
more ambitous than before
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All three pillars of the EU-Africa High
Level Policy Dialogue (sus.agr.,
nutrition, agr. trade/markets)
LEAP-AGRI, PRIMA, FACCE, CGIAR
CRPs, World Bank, FAO
Align efforts for Science Agenda for
Africa, EU-African
Use PROIntensAfrica capacity to
contribute to:
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• JPI aim to link policy with implementation of
science-based results – support i.e. funding
from CSA, EJP
• LEAP AGRI - WP6 inherits/ continues
PROIA work
• Many R&I initiatives with Africa:
JPI FACCE, Belmont Forum, WB, CGIAR
CRPs –
Time is right to build on initiatives
– for coherence and efficiency
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IntensAfrica partnership
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serve as: advisors in research, interface between HLPD and
implementation, facilitators to the multi-stakeholder dialogue
required for the HLPD Road Map.

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PROIntensAfrica – Towards a long-term Africa-EU partnership to raise
sustainable food and nutrition security in Africa
The potential of partnerships is
said to be dictated by funding
mechanisms
– we say it is equally the people
that dictate the potential.