Innovative frontier technologies for climate resilient agriculture, food security and safety in Africa

In order to achieve agricultural development goals and targets aligned with Africa Agenda 2063, it is imperative to address the current and emerging social, economic, and environmental challenges affecting food safety and security in Africa. The need for research and innovation for improved climate resilient agriculture requires novel ideas, innovative approaches and greater levels of multilateral co-operation among key players in Africa within various sectors, especially academia and industry as well as farmers’ knowledge and skills to support specialization, intensification, diversification, and value addition.

Under this grant Three projects have been selected for funding with amount of one hundred million Rwandan francs per each project. The implementation is ongoing and progress on track. These projects are expected to use of frontier/emerging technologies for agriculture discovery and innovation towards food safety and security in Africa.

Projects funded and their details are summarised in the table below.