New pathways for increasing agricultural productivity in Africa require an ecologic transformation of agriculture as suggested by the strategic framework of Horizon 2020 to encompass traditional agro-industrial productivity and an obsolete agri-business economy. A support action for spread Horizon strategy of research and innovation of agricultural transformation in Africa needs to explicit the challenging perspective of green economy and blue-ocean revolution.

NUTRA-AFRICA project’s innovation and conference aim to share new models of economic and social growth, both for Europe and Africa, based on the sustainability of agricultural production, which includes: improving food nutritional quality, ensuring food security, managing climate changes, increasing the productivity of soil, reducing deforestation.

 

GOALS

• Enhancing Horizon 2020 new challenges & opportunities between Europe and Africa
• Finding innovation pathways for Ecological Agriculture and drop down food insecurity

 

THEMES

• Strengthening capacity building’s alliances for transforming Agro food productivity
• Developing criteria and capacity for modernizing agriculture
• Building competency networks in modernizing agro-food to overcome hunger and malnutrition
• Growing resilience between Agriculture-Nutrition and Health within a gender approach.
• Advancing in bio-green economy and blue-ocean innovation priorities in Africa

CONCEPTUAL PREMISE by Paolo Manzelli: https://www.edscuola.eu/wordpress/?p=39173

EGOCREANET PROFILE 2014: https://www.edscuola.eu/wordpress/?p=38949

Please confirm your presence in the project meeting (if invited) and in the public conference,

sending an email to Paolo Manzelli (President of EGO-CreaNET): egocreanet2012@gmail.com

 

Title of the conference open to the public:

“NOURISH AFRICA:
FUTURE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE INNOVATION”

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM:

9.00-9.15    Welcome address: Marco Bellandi – Technology Transfer Vice-Rector of University of Florence and President of Florence University Incubator

9.15-9.30    Introduction: Paolo Manzelli – EGO-CreaNET: “Shifting paradigm of Agro-food Innovation in Africa”

9.30-10.00  Opening of the Conference: Raffalele de Lutio – Ministry of Foreing Affairs V.Director of DGMO 13, Mondialization of MFA for Africa: Concept Paper on Supporting the Agri-food Sector in African Subsaharan.

10.00-10.20    Marco Bindi – Agriculture Dept. University of Florence: The role of climate change on the agricultural development of African countries: impacts and adaptation strategies”

10.20-10.40    Leonardo Cannizzaro – National Council of Research: “Advancing in blue-ocean innovation priorities in Africa”

10.40-11.00    Bruno Biavati – Agriculture Dept. University of Bologna: “Development of knowledge about fermented foods used in Africa.”

11.00-11.20    Mario Tredici – Agriculture Dept. University of Florence: “Microalgae: a novel source of high-quality food ingredients to combat malnutrition in Africa”

11.20-11.40    Roland Poms – International Crops Corporation (Austria): “ICC partnership for Africa Agriculture innovation”

11.40-12.00    David Alejandro Solano Grima, Fabrice Gouriveau – Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia and National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (Spain): “The contribution of sustainable forestry and agroforestry to food security”

12.00-12.20    R.C. Gatti, A. Bombelli – Impacts on Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Terrestrial Ecosystems DEpt. of Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change: “CMCC research activities in Africa”;

12.20-12.40    Mauro Perini – Water Right Foundation: “Towards expo 2015: knowing water to nourish the planet”

12.40-13.00    Roberto Negri – International Volunteers for Social Enterprise Development NGO: “Visis, by volunteering a witness from Africa”

13.00-13.20    Closing lecture: Donato Romano – Economy Dept. University of Florence. “The development of agriculture as a contribution to food and nutrition security in Sub-Saharan Africa”

13.20-13.40    Leonardo Piccinetti – EFB (Belgium): “Europe for Business: our role in the project”

Languages of the conference: both Italian and English, without translation

The public conference is open and without any fee.

Registration is required,
please send an email to Paolo Manzelli (President of EGO-CreaNET): egocreanet2012@gmail.com

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