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Temophadis International Enterprise and University of Lincoln
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
To develop & implement food processing techniques achieving commercially viable value added products with improved nutritional quality, increased food security & reducing 50% food losses incurred in Nigeria; Improve supply of foods via e-platforms; Build the capacity of ‘Agri-food’ vendors in Nigeria. Innovation area – Food processing / nutrition Some of the challenges in Nigeria are lack of knowledge of nutritional and allergen information, packaging options (like biodegradable packaging) and traceability (local foods and recipes). The KTP will help address these challenges as well as advance the TIE business as these capabilities are currently out of our reach. The KTP will particularly support TIE in the following areas where we lack knowledge / capability; - Food product formulation and development - Processing options to diversify offering and secure commercially viable shelf life - Batch recipe and traceability management (including inks to a recall system) - Current practices and technology in packaging - Clean labelling (removal of additives / e-numbers) and development of a database on portion size conversion - Flavour interaction, organoleptic performance, and food chemistry - Record keeping, documentations and benchmarking - Demand and supply chain management - Supply chain visibility, traceability and marketing ODA – The KTP will address food waste and increase food options by processing food crops into more shelf-stable nutritious products. Our vision is to develop socially responsible business growth models which enhance the levels of nutritious food supply in Nigeria, reducing malnutrition, food waste and insecurity. The initiative proposed will enhance the Nigerian food supply chain by extending collaborative / cooperative networks using the company’s e-platform as a key tool for engagement and communication. These objectives will dovetail into reducing food crop losses and waste, increasing income for the farmers and others within the food value and supply chains through increased economic activities, enhancing households’ livelihood and reducing poverty levels.
KTN Support to GCRF Agrifood Business Innovation for Development
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
1. Innovation Awards - GCRF AgriFood Africa Innovation Awards will encourage UK research partners, including Universities and Research and Technology Organisations to address AgriFood challenges in Africa. Up to £800k will be available to support a maximum of 20 awards up to 12 months in duration. The scope of these awards cover agriculture, food systems and nutrition. Awards provide funds to a UK research partner for a collaborative project to address the AgriFood challenges of an African partner. These Awards help to catalyse new international partnerships between an African partner and a UK research partner that is likely to lead to a longer-term relationship and follow-on projects, particularly in further rounds of the Agri-Tech Catalyst. Innovative applications from partners who have not worked together before are a focus of these awards. 2. Capacity building The capacity building activity will run for the duration of the programme and provide continuity of support and ‘after-care’ to projects to increase the potential for project outputs to realise benefit for African partners, and secondary business benefits for UK partners. Activities will enhance understanding of African needs across the AgriFood supply chain and encourage collaboration for future projects. Activities include missions, workshops, collaboration events, online seminar series and other networking activities. This activity will benefit Ethiopia; Ghana; Kenya; Niger; Nigeria; Rwanda; Senegal; South Africa; Tanzania; Uganda.
Brazil Partnering Award: Imperial-Portsmouth-Vicosa A. pleuropneumoniae collaboration
DEPARTMENT FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY
The bacterium Actinobacillus pleuropneumonaie (APP) causes lung disease in pigs and is responsible for is responsible for mortality and economic losses in Braazil. This project will work with Brazilian partners to focus on vaccine development, diagnostics, population biology and understanding the basic pathogenicity mechanisms of APP.
The development and delivery of new effective and cheap animal vaccines and medicines to poor livestock keepers through support to the Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Make available and accessible animal health products to poor livestock keepers in low income countries that are affordable and technically suitable. This project will develop seven new livestock vaccines and one new therapeutic drug and get these products into widespread use by establishing and testing five distribution networks in Africa and Asia. The project will benefit 8 million smallholders. By 2022, an estimated £400 million livestock mortalities and productivity losses will be averted per annum through subsequent use of these products.
Strengthening Impact Investment Markets for Agriculture (SIIMA)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To provide support to innovative businesses with potential to transform the agriculture sector, in ways that generate tangible positive impacts for smallholder farmers (productivity, incomes, resilience), Through co-investment with selected partners, de-risk emerging markets for agriculture innovations and attract additional sources of (commercial or near-commercial) capital. Through an action research programme develop a strong evidence base for equity-type approaches to early stage impact investment to inform internal DFID approaches, and contribute to global public goods on impact investment.
Support to the International Agriculture Research Centres developing and delivering agriculture technologies and knowledge to reduce poverty, hunger and adapt to climate change.
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To contribute to poverty reduction, improvements in nutritional status, and adaptation to climate change in South Asia and Africa in the face of climate change and resource scarcity, by developing new technologies, products and knowledge which promote agricultural productivity and increase the resistance of crops to diseases and pests. The programme will lead to increased agricultural productivity; increased production and consumption of nutritious vegetables; and improved food security and incomes for rural households in Africa and South Asia.
Animal and Plant Health Innovation and Evidence Delivery (APHID) Platform
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
APHID will work with trusted partners to support an integrated portfolio of research and innovation investments in animal and plant health that will contribute to food system resilience and global health security. This will be achieved by reducing pest and disease threats to crops and livestock to deliver increased agricultural productivity and efficiency, whilst reducing adverse environmental impact, empowering women, better nourishing families, protecting people’s health and spurring economic growth.
AgResults: Innovation in Research and Delivery
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The overall objective of the AgResults Initiative is to enhance smallholder welfare and food security for the poor and vulnerable in developing countries through increased investment in agricultural innovation and adoption. It aims to do so by developing financial incentives (i.e. “pull mechanisms”) for private and public sector players to research, develop, and deliver products and services that will improve smallholder agriculture. AgResults consists of a number of pilot projects across the developing world focused on either the adoption of existing technologies or the development and adaptation of new research and technologies. The UK leads on a high quality research and evaluation component.
Strategic Partnership on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme will contribute to improved food and nutrition security through effective agriculture interventions and food systems that make nutritous food accessible , acceptable and available to all, particularly woman and young children in poor households.. It includes large-scale studies in Africa and South Asia on the impact and cost effectiveness of agricultural interventions on nutrition and health outcomes, and interdisciplinary studies on the drivers of food choices which influence healthy, safe and nutritious diets.
Tackling global plant and animal health risks which threaten global food systems and health - in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Working in partnership with BMGF to fund a portfolio of agricultural technology investments to secure global food supplies, with a strong focus on tackling global plant health threats through improved data, monitoring and delivery of new technologies in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The programme will promote climate resilient food systems and sustainable agriculture productivity for smallholders by science based approaches to tackle plant and animal pest and disease threats, increasingly driven by climate change and pressures on natural resources.
Developing science and technology solutions to the global food security and climate crisis with CGIAR (2023-25)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To enable the CGIAR to scale up its research, contributing to the development of new crop varieties which are more productive and tolerant of biotic and abiotic stress. Development of farming systems which are more resilient and more productive, the development of markets and value chains which are better able to deliver benefits to poor people and policies and technology which will directly support better nutritional and health outcomes for the poor.
African Cities Research Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Research which will produce new operationally-relevant knowledge and evidence on African ‘cities as systems’. The research will help policy makers and those who manage cities to tackle the most significant problems constraining growth and development in individual African Cities, leading to the development of, and investment in, more effective economic development and poverty-reduction policies and programmes in African cities, by DFID and its partners.
Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises (SPARC)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The purpose is to generate evidence that will strengthen the effectiveness of agricultural programmes to support and rebuild agriculture during protracted crisis. The programme will strengthen the evidence base on how to effectively deliver agricultural programmes and influence policies across different types of protracted crisis, including those in fragile and conflict-affected states. In five years we would expect the following outcomes: • New research investments and collaboration enhance and inform the evidence base on both agricultural policies and programmes. • New approaches, interventions and technologies are tested and scaled up where successful. • Promotion and implementation of more rigorous evaluation designs in agriculture for nutrition. • Better prioritisation of resources, better value for money.
TRANSFORM - Transformative Market Based Models for low income household needs
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To deliver market based solutions to meet low income households needs by providing private sector creativity and commercial sector approaches to social marketing and demand creation to deliver innovative solutions and new approaches. This will benefit 100 million people by adopting behaviours and accessing household technologies and services that lead to sustained improvements in health, livelihoods, environment and wellbeing. This contributes towards the post-MDG, Nutrition and WASH agendas. The project will be for 5 years.To identify, test and deliver innovative market based solutions that meet the needs of poor households for basic services such as water, sanitation and hygiene in low-income African countries. Part of the DFID-Unilever partnership agreement, this five year project aims to utilise private sector creativity, social marketing and demand creation methods and techniques to promote behavioural change and accessibility of new technologies and services that lead to sustained improvements in health, livelihoods, environment and wellbeing of 100 million poor people.
The Evidence Fund - 300708
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Evidence Fund procures and manages research and evaluations that primarily benefit ODA eligible countries. Most research and evaluations paid for by the Evidence Fund are country-specific, and all respond to requests for evidence to inform programme or policy decisions. Primarily serving research requests from HMG’s Embassies and High Commissions in ODA eligible countries, and from HMG policy and strategy teams, the Evidence Fund strengthens the evidence behind the UK’s priority international development investments and development diplomacy. The Evidence Fund also invests modest amounts of non-ODA, to strengthen the evidence behind wider UK foreign policy.
The UK's CABI Membership
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
CABI is a not-for-profit organization established by a United Nations treaty level agreement between 48 member countries. Each member country has an equal role in the organization's governance, policies and strategic direction in addition to enjoying a number of privileges and services relating to our scientific expertise, products and resources. These include disease identification, capacity building and information products.
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