Events
BIO4Africa-DIVAGRI African green transition online workshop
Online workshop: 24 April 2024, 12-16 CET Climate change is putting smallholder farmers in Africa under unprecedented pressure. Extremeweather conditions and deterioration of the soil are compromising the yield and quality of foodand feed crops and posing a serious...
DIVAGRI launches its Webinar Series
Hear and explore how our projects are delivering on diversifying revenue in rural Africa through bio-based solutions. Access to insightful information from our experts in agricultural systems, bio-based solutions and beyond. The project DIVAGRI is paving the way towards the African Union and the European Union partnership via co-creating and co-operating with real-scale pilot experiment and advancing pioneering bio-based solutions.
DIVAGRI represented at the IV International Symposium for Agriculture and Food (ISAF 2022)
The IV International Symposium for Agriculture and Food (ISAF 2022) on 12-14 October 2022 takes place in Ohrid, North Macedonia, and is organised and hosted by fellow partner Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (UKIM). The event is presided by Prof. Dr. Vjekoslav TANASKOVIKJ, Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food-Skopje, who realised a field training session on irrigation in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Project DIVAGRI, a bio-based horizon
DIVAGRI ambitions to contribute to sustainable livelihoods in rural areas of Africa, through domestic agri-food systems which can sustain growing populations in an inclusive and environmentally friendly way in the long term. DIVAGRI increases the productivity of the African agri-food systems, connects supply to demand and turn wastes into resources through connected value networks within the bioeconomy through selected enabling bio-based solutions tailored to specific conditions in the five target countries.
DIVAGRI – Revenue diversification pathways in Africa
The vision is to contribute to sustainable livelihoods in rural areas of Africa, through domestic agri-food systems which can sustain growing populations in an inclusive and environmentally friendly way in the long term. DIVAGRI increases the productivity of the African agri-food systems, connects supply to demand and turn wastes into resources through connected value networks within the bioeconomy through selected enabling bio-based solutions tailored to specific conditions in the five target countries.
Start of the EU project DIVAGRI: Agricultural innovation for African smallholders
The Robert Schmidt Institute of the University of Wismar, as project coordinator, was able to win the tender for EU funding as part of the 8th European Research Framework Program Horizon 2020. The aim of the 21 partner institutions is the sustainable improvement of agricultural productivity, profitability and climate resilience.