CGIAR Food Systems Accelerator: kick-off and onboarding workshop - complementary report on reflections on the accelerator and technical assistance design and implementation, Kigali, Rwanda, 22-24 February 2023

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlandsen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeDiversification in East and Southern Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.creator.identifierHauke Dahl: 0000-0001-5359-4664
cg.identifier.iwmilibraryH052597
cg.placeColombo, Sri Lankaen
dc.contributor.authorDahl, Haukeen
dc.contributor.authorSartas, M.en
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-08T09:06:02Zen
dc.date.available2024-02-08T09:06:02Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/139080
dc.titleCGIAR Food Systems Accelerator: kick-off and onboarding workshop - complementary report on reflections on the accelerator and technical assistance design and implementation, Kigali, Rwanda, 22-24 February 2023en
dcterms.abstractFood system accelerators are programs that support agribusinesses in scaling their innovations to address the challenges and opportunities in food and agriculture systems. They typically provide a combination of technical assistance, mentoring, networking, and access to finance to help agribusinesses grow and achieve positive social and environmental impact. Food system accelerators are emerging as a promising approach to foster climate-smart innovation and transformation in agri-food systems, especially in developing regions where climate change, population growth, food insecurity, and malnutrition pose serious threats. Climate-smart innovation can enhance the efficiency, resilience, transparency, and inclusiveness of agri-food value chains, as well as improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and consumers. However, scaling climate-smart innovations in agri-food systems is not easy. It requires a deep understanding of the complex and dynamic context of agri-food systems, as well as the needs and preferences of different actors and stakeholders. It also requires collaboration and coordination among various actors, such as researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, extension agents, and end-users. Moreover, it requires overcoming various barriers and risks, such as lack of infrastructure, skills, data, regulation, trust, and financing. To address these challenges, food system accelerators leverage the expertise and network of CGIAR, a global research partnership for a food-secure future. CGIAR has a portfolio of innovations that span various domains of agri-food systems, such as crop improvement, livestock production, natural resource management, nutrition, gender, policy, and markets. CGIAR also has a strong presence and partnership in many developing countries where agri-food systems face the most pressing problems. One example of a food system accelerator is the CGIAR Food Systems Accelerator Programme (FSA), launched in partnership with 2SCALE in 2022. The FSA aims to support at least 30 agribusinesses in East and Southern Africa by 2024 with scaled-up climate-smart innovations that support diversification, intensification, and risk management of maize mixed systems. The FSA provides tailor-made support to selected agribusinesses under four priority innovation themes: mechanization and irrigation, conservation agriculture, nutrition-sensitive climate-smart agriculture, and agricultural risk management. The FSA also offers de-risking grants and matchmaking with private investors for follow-on capital. In February 2023, CGIAR FSA organized the initiation workshop for the first successful group of startup businesses at Norrsken House, Kigali, Rwanda. This report has its focus on participants’ reflections on the food system accelerator process and the way forward.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationDahl, Hauke; Sartas, M. 2023. CGIAR Food Systems Accelerator: kick-off and onboarding workshop - complementary report on reflections on the accelerator and technical assistance design and implementation, Kigali, Rwanda, 22-24 February 2023. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africa. 10p.en
dcterms.extent10p.en
dcterms.issued2023-12-31
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherColombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on Diversification in East and Southern Africaen
dcterms.subjectagrifood systemsen
dcterms.subjectagribusinessen
dcterms.subjectinnovationen
dcterms.subjecttechnical aiden
dcterms.subjectvalue chainsen
dcterms.typeReport

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