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Saving the lake and food safety in Nicaragua
05/06/2021 in News
On this world food safety day, get to know more about this collective effort in Nicaragua, which has united actors who do not generally work together in the country to conserve a lake. A big endeavour by itself, but one that might also improve the safety of the production of the country's main vegetables for consumption.
Revisiting the past for a better future: A decade of youth in agriculture in Lira
31/05/2021 in News
In 2009, secondary schools in Lira partnered up with Rikolto and YOUCA to empower Ugandan youth to become active in agriculture. Now more than a decade later, we revisited the schools in Lira to learn from our previous experience and integrate learnings in our future programmes. Tag along with Rikolto colleague Hannes and read his story about his journey to the schools in Lira.
Generation Food: hacking the challenge of feeding Ouagadougou
27/05/2021 in News
60 young women and men joined us to hack the challenge of how to feed the greater Ouaga area, debating and defining opportunities and challenges for young food entrepreneurs, from 20 to 21 May. Read more about their journey.
The true cost of food: access to healthy & sustainable diets
21/05/2021 in News
Rikolto and FoodUnfolded, a platform powered by EIT Food are organising the dialogue: The true cost of food - Access to Healthy & Sustainable Diets for Everyone, as part of the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021, on Wednesday 16 June.
A youth cooperative makes its mark on the rice value chain in Bagré, Burkina Faso
10/05/2021 in News
The Mitiiri cooperative is an organisation led by a team of young, dynamic agricultural producers committed to professionalising their organisation, so that it can position itself as a reliable business partner with a good reputation in the Centre-East region of Burkina Faso.
Citizens of Antwerp collectively build their food strategy with Rikolto and Let Us
29/04/2021 in News
In its climate plan, the city of Antwerp states the ambition to make the local food system more sustainable. To achieve this, the city has started to develop a food strategy, encompassing the whole food chain. The process will identify strategic priorities to build a more inclusive, innovative and circular urban food system.
Agroecology and youth: opening up new business opportunities in Ecuador
26/04/2021 in News
In Pedro Moncayo, a town located 60 kilometres north of Quito, the capital of Ecuador, Rikolto identified a group of farmers willing to modernise their business to increase their incomes, not only respecting the limits of nature but also honouring them.
The city of Leuven launches its EcoFoodMap: a digital compass for the food strategy
19/04/2021 in News
Leuven recently launched the EcoFoodMap: an interactive tool that maps the food system in and around Leuven. The tool provides the necessary information about all initiatives, actors, experts and indicators in the Leuven food system.
A study: Minimising the carbon footprint of organic coffee production
14/04/2021 in News
For businesses all around the world, the push to be carbon-neutral continues to be a huge priority. The coffee sector is no exception. Climate change threatens the amount of land suitable for coffee farming around the world, making production more difficult and more expensive.
A wasteland named "Peor es nada" (“better than nothing”) has become a model ecological farm in Nicaragua
13/04/2021 in News
This farm, whose name reflects what its owner Juan Pablo Ruiz initially saw in it, has grown from 9.6 hectares of pastureland to a national reference farm with three organic certification seals for coffee and cocoa, agroforestry systems, orchards, pruning management, windbreaks, water management and a barrier against chemicals.

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