Stockholm Initiative serves as catalyst for the promotion of agriculture knowledge-sharing and vocational training as key to fighting Africa’s food and nutrition insecurity in a long-term prospective. It is a slow process occurring in a modest, incremental fashion: one farmer, one student at a time.

We place African youth at the center of a novel knowledge exchange and delivery system. The creation of a food and nutrition security chair at USSEIN, a leading African agriculture university in Senegal answers this call.

This chair offers an African-specific curriculum being set up in cooperation with selected African and international universities and colleges. The curriculum is being designed, tested and with the involvement of private sector as well as local and national governments. We are creating a trans-disciplinary academic package available onsite and online through educational institutions across the continent.

The offer combines theory and applied knowledge. It is sanctioned by a set of degrees all of internationally recognized standard and quality with immediate employability. Knowledge-sharing, vocational training, research and monitoring remain at the heart of the program.