AgriFoSe2030 phase I is coming to an end this year and we are currently in discussion with the funder, Sida, about the potential of continuing the work of the programme; in an AgriFoSe2030 phase II. As part of those discussions we brought together a diverse range of partners, steering group members and researcher experts from various fields in agricultural research that have been active in AgriFoSe2030, to carve out what focus areas such a second phase would have.
Eleven participants came to Uppsala the 31st of October and 1st of November 2019 from some countries, Kenya, Vietnam, Indonesia, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia, in the programme’s target regions; sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South and Southeast Asia.
Several focus areas, or challenges as we call them, were identified and address specific aspects of agriculture and food security in SSA and South and SE Asia. A number of criteria were important when identifying and developing these challenges; they should follow a practice or policy outcome pathway, be able to reach the outcome within four years, use the AgriFoSe2030 model, address food and nutrition security, be relevant for AgriFoSe2030 partners in SSA and South and SE Asia, include all three dimensions of sustainability and, finally, be linked to existing global/regional/Swedish development strategies.
Eleven participants came to Uppsala from countries in the programme’s target regions. Photo: Anneli Sundin.
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From these meetings and further iteration, we now have four distinct challenges, which are following:
The meetings in Uppsala were very helpful for the programme, to help identify challenges with a clear regional connection for a second phase. Insights and expertise from the programme’s target regions, were harnessed and applied and participants expressed their participation as a positive experience. If the program receives funding for a second phase we will be able to focus energy and activities on these tangible challenges in the field of agriculture and food security in SSA and South and SE Asia. There will also be a clear connection to key stakeholders in target regions and we will continuously engage with these throughout a phase II.
Sofia Boqvist, Associate ProfessorProgramme Director of AgriFoSe2030
Dept. of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health, SLU
Phone: +46 18-67 23 88, +46 72-240 34 94
E-mail: Sofia.Boqvist@slu.se
On parental leave until August 2023
Communications lead, AgriFoSe2030
SEI, Stockholm Environment Institute
Telephone: +46 702 454 646
E-mail: anneli.sundin@sei.org