Together, we make food systems more economically, socially and environmentally viable. We do that by actively creating opportunities for sharing knowledge as well as fostering the creation of partnerships that can have real impact on the ground or at a policy level.
Are you a practitioner, innovator or policymaker? And dedicated to create a world without hunger? Join our learning sessions or share your insights with the community. Let’s complement each other’s expertise!
This what we have to offer to you:
- our online community NFP Connects;
- learning sessions
- our e-courses
- policy dialogue sessions
- support to strategic networks.
Together with Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation NFP organises an e-course on Food Systems. Each edition of the E-course has welcomed 500+ agriculture and food professionals from around the world. During this course, participants deepen their understanding of the food systems approach and learn how to apply this in their work. The e-course is a mentored online course of 4 weekly modules and includes self-paced learning blocks, plenary sessions and optional group work.
Biodiversity is foundational for food security and our food systems. It builds resilience and creates opportunities. The knowledge-base behind this is strong and applies across settings in the world. Yet, our current food systems are a primary driver of biodiversity loss, and in turn this loss greatly and increasingly impacts our food systems and makes them very vulnerable. It is a negative vicious circle that can be turned around - so that biodiversity and food systems mutually reinforce each other.
The urgency that partners express to strengthen collaboration across these silos, examples on the ground, and the growing knowledge base show that this is possible and can benefit long-term economic investments.
We are a collective of organisations that exchange learnings and align strategies to remove barriers that stand between newly developed digital services and the thousands of agribusinesses and millions of low-income producers (and consumers) that could benefit from these. By removing barriers together, we aim to accelerate the digital transformation of agrifood value chains across Sub Saharan Africa and Southern Asia and make this transformation inclusive for all.
To effectively realise a transition towards sustainable food systems with solid business opportunities for Youth, there is a need for connections with the right actors and for the development of viable business models supported by the proper financial solutions. Youth should be in the center of the discussion and action.
Does your organisation have a food system challenge to tackle? NFP facilitates and invests in joint exploration of relevance, feasibility and viability of partnerships. When successful, partnerships can result in collaborations that:
- strengthen the implementation sector or area they are based in;
- influence and change policy;
- bring innovations to scale in a specific domain / impact area.
Get in touch and let’s explore how we can create impact together.
SeedNL enables powerful collaboration between relevant Dutch organisations and international partners to achieve urgent changes that contribute to SDG2 by 2030. SeedNL aims to strengthen the seed sector in developing countries, provide appropriate access to quality seeds for all farmers and increase productivity and farmer income. To contribute to Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals, three parties established the SeedNL partnership: Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Plantum, the Dutch branch association for planting materials.
Achieving Zero Hunger in 2030 requires complex food system transitions and a massive effort. The Netherlands and CGIAR are cooperating through a Strategic Partnership to contribute to the transformation of food, land, and water systems around the world by advancing knowledge generation and mobilising joint public and private innovations.
Netherlands Food Partnership and True Price Foundation are setting up the Global Partnership for the True Price of Food (GPTPF). The partnership enables actors in the food sector to embrace and apply true pricing on a large scale. The goal is to provide governments and businesses with the tools they need to make healthy, sustainable, and affordable food available for all via true pricing.
Salinisation is rapidly becoming one of the biggest challenges for food production worldwide. Salt-affected soils occur naturally, for example in (semi)arid areas with limited precipitation. But also along coastal regions and in deltas, salinity intrusion via tidal dynamics and sea level rise increasingly impacts agricultural production. Salinity severely impacts crop development and growth, threatening food security, biodiversity and livelihoods of millions of people in various parts of the world. For this reason, the Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP) and Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP) set up a partnership on ‘Saline Water & Food Systems’ (SW & FS) with the objective to strengthen cooperation between the Dutch water and agrifood sectors to address the challenge of salinity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). The partnership consists of knowledge institutes, a broad variety of the business community including innovative SMEs, and locally operating experts. It is supported by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.