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Innovative agrifood solutions take center stage: Global Call Stories are now published!
01/04/2025
The Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP), a G20 initiative led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with financial support from the European Union, is proud to announce the publication of inspiring stories collected through the Global Call for Agrifood System Innovations and Stories of Capacity Development for Innovation.
TAP-AIS project featured at the "DeSIRA CONNECT Days: Asia & The Pacific"
24/01/2025
The TAP-AIS project, funded by the European Union and implemented by FAO, will actively participate in the DeSIRA CONNECT Days Asia & The Pacific, taking place from January 14–16, 2025, in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Spotlight on Innovation and Partnerships: A Look at the "DeSIRA CONNECT Days Asia & Pacific"
17/01/2025
The DeSIRA CONNECT Days Asia & The Pacific, held in Hanoi from January 14–16, brought together key stakeholders of the DeSIRA Initiative to take stock of the contributions of Research and Innovation to agroecological transitions and climate-resilient food systems.
The TAP-AIS project: advancing the Agroecological Transition in Senegal
31/12/2024
Under the framework of the TAP-AIS project funded by the European Union, Jengalab, in collaboration with the FAO, the Dynamics for an Agroecological Transition in Senegal (DyTAES), and Yeesal AgriHub, hosted a networking and collaboration event in Dakar on July 30–31, 2024 and a co-creation workshop on November 6th 2024.
International Technical Webinar: Tropical Agriculture Platform: Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems
19/11/2024
This international technical webinar is part of the series organized by the FAO elearning Academy. These webinars are an opportunity for all of us to share experiences and lessons learnt, discuss challenges, and propose innovative solutions and models.
Agricultural mechanization for smallholder farmers in Pakistan: Results of a multistakeholder policy dialogue.
21/10/2024
“Pakistan should formulate a national policy on agricultural mechanization for smallholder farmers”. This was the clear recommendation by participants in a national policy dialogue event on this topic held on 29 May 2024 in Islamabad, led by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Pakistan and the federal Ministry of National Food Security and Research (MNFS&R).
Accelerating digital solutions for the Agroecological Transition in Senegal. A networking and collaboration event between the ‘AgriTech’ and ‘Agroecology’ innovation communities
23/07/2024
On 30 and 31 July 2024, FAO is organising a networking and collaboration event between the ‘AgriTech’ and ‘Agroecology’ innovation communities with the aim of accelerating digital solutions for the Agroecological Transition (AET) in Senegal.
The event is being organised with the financial support of the FAO as part of the TAP-AIS project.
Scaling up the TAP Framework: Developing capacities in agricultural innovation systems
05/07/2024
Innovation is essential to tackle the complex challenges of agrifood systems, enabling efficient resource use and promoting sustainability. For the past 5 years, the Tropical Agriculture Platform (TAP), a G20 led mechanism, has been empowering communities and fostering agricultural innovation in support of sustainability transitions.
Assessing Pakistan’s agriculture innovation system
30/05/2024
Pakistan’s agriculture sector accounts for around 23 percent of GDP and 36.4 percent of total employment, according to World Bank data for 2022. Innovation in this important sector is central to catalysing its transition towards modern, sustainable agriculture, a process supported by the FAO-led project ‘Developing capacities in agricultural innovation systems: scaling up the Tropical Agriculture Platform Framework’ (TAP-AIS), funded by the European Union.
Malawi holds National Policy Dialogue on Research Capacity for Sustainable Agrifood Systems
14/03/2024
On 28 November 2023, the government of Malawi, through the Ministry of Agriculture with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), held the national policy dialogue on ‘Research Capacity for Sustainable Agri-food Systems in the Context of the Agricultural Innovation System (AIS)’ in Lilongwe.
Launch of the e-learning course on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems
01/03/2024
TAP has launched a new, certified e-learning course “Tropical Agriculture Platform: Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems”. The course was created by FAO under the TAP-AIS project with generous funding...
Empowering Eritrea's Honey Value Chain: Insights from TAP-AIS Stakeholders' Engagement Event
08/02/2024
One of the functioning multi-stakeholders’ mechanisms from the TAP-AIS project in Eritrea is the honey value chain. During the capacity needs assessment, it was evident that stakeholders’ engagement and interaction in the honey value chain was weak.
Strengthening National Agriculture Innovation Systems in the TAP-AIS Countries
05/02/2024
The 10th Partner Assembly of the Tropical Agriculture Platform, held last November in Ethiopia, was a stimulating workshop uniting experts, researchers, and practitioners working together to bridge the capacity gaps for agricultural innovation in the tropics.
Strengthening innovation capacities at the core of the 10th TAP Partner Assembly
12/12/2023
The 10th annual TAP Partner Assembly was held from 21 to 23 November 2023 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Partners and key stakeholders joined together for three days of knowledge exchange...
TAP-AIS project in Senegal: Implementing digital technologies in agriculture
08/12/2023
Digital innovation in agriculture is at the forefront of change in Senegal. Organic producers need action-oriented approaches in order to improve and promote digital technologies. FAO and its partners, through...
TAP-AIS project approaches featured at FAO's webinar on Governance and Policy Innovation
04/12/2023
Policymakers, experts, researchers and practitioners have unveiled fresh perspectives on catalysing agrifood systems transformation through governance and policy innovation, exchanging concrete country experiences from Cambodia, Indonesia, Malawi and Uzbekistan, in a webinar organized by FAO on 9 November 2023.
FAO is strengthening capacities for policy engagement in agricultural innovation systems in the Asia-Pacific region
08/11/2023
FAO’s Office of Innovation, in collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI) and the Asia-Pacific Islands Rural Advisory Services Network (APIRAS), recently organized a regional training (18–20 September) on multistakeholder policy engagement in agrifood systems. This virtual training was designed and implemented within the framework of the EU-funded TAP-AIS project.
Global Call for Agrifood system Innovations and Stories of capacity development for innovation: Deadline November 15th!
21/10/2023
The world is facing complex and unprecedented challenges in the agrifood systems, from feeding a growing population to addressing the impacts of climate change that call for innovative solutions using less resources and improve people’s livelihoods while “leaving no one behind”.
Boosting innovation in smallholder pig and poultry systems: four new publications by the TAP-AIS Rwanda project
06/10/2023
Small livestock, pigs and poultry in particular, are important to smallholder farmers in Rwanda. Pigs and poultry can generate jobs and income and bring protein-rich food to rural and urban families, and small livestock suits small-size farms that dominate Rwanda’s hilly landscapes.
The TAP-AIS project finds new agricultural innovation pathways in Cambodia
11/09/2023
The EU-funded TAP-AIS project works to strengthen capacities in agricultural innovation systems (AIS) to contribute to the climate-relevant, productive and sustainable transformation of agrifood systems. TAP-AIS works in nine countries,...