We place African youth at the center of a novel knowledge exchange and delivery system In furtherance of food security and nutrition, our Programs are structured around three main areas: (1) Education and in-field Training, (2) Data collection, sharing, processing and monitoring, and (3) Access to capital and support for small to medium farming endeavors.
Education. Our flagship program is called Nutrition and Food Security Masters 360. It consists of a carefully designed and tested multidisciplinary and multi-sectoral curriculum. This academic and scientific offer is destined for teaching and training African students across the specialty spectrum and levels. The approach is community-based. Its model favors in-field designed and regionally implemented delivery and training sessions.
Data. With the perceptible current trend towards repurposing agriculture for more sustainability, time has finally come to focus on the urgent need for quality data collection and processing. No serious progress in the fight against food and nutrition security may be realistically possible without monitoring. No monitoring may be possible without proper data.
Our goal is to support data collection initiatives at academic level with the involvement of farmer communities and local authorities. Our flagship program is to undertake the project of crafting a novel food and nutrition security Index.
Indexing food and nutrition security serves the purpose of offering a tool to assess, compare and understand the food security topic in a consistent and somehow harmonized approach. Such index often offers the basis to form opinions, design or evaluate strategies, policies across regions or countries. In the hands of institutions, national aid agencies, donors, such measure becomes an objective base to grant and condition loans or extend financial aids.
Capital. We strive to raise awareness to business model alternatives with emphasis on performance, monitoring and free enterprise combined with values such as sustainability, good governance, transparency, training in business savvy and technology transfer and use.
