news by Syngenta Foundaton about a recent study identifying initiatives, spending levels, and drivers of Indonesia’s public R&D spending on food and agriculture, investigating the gaps faced by low-income farmers and consumers and recommending how to tackle these gaps

HarvestPlus and Syngenta are partnering to increase the availability of biofortified seeds while developing the capacity of women as change-agents across the value chain. The collaboration will bring nutrition and livelihood benefits to smallholder farming households in several countries across Africa and Asia.

In the latest Swiss Society for African studies newsletter, Anja Soldat summarizes discussions at the Swiss Researching Africa Days on how to decolonize Swiss-Africa research collaborations.

Helvetas welcomes the historic agreement on biodiversity and will closely monitor its implementation. As strong proponents of agroecology – entailing the minimization of agro-chemical use - they nevertheless believe that the demand to halve the use of hazardous chemicals by 2030 is insufficient.

The "Biodiversity boost through regenerative organic agroforestry in Central Ghana" project from FiBL aims to improve farm resilience and biodiversity by implementing agroforestry in current monoculture orange plantations. It also focuses on finding a viable waste management solution for the by-products from orange peel processing.