The newsletter of the SDC Agriculture & Food Systems Network provides you with the latest news on projects, publications and events related to food systems and submitted by network members. It also informs about A&FS Network activities and portrays network members.

Rural Advisory Services don’t exist anymore in Armenia. With innovation groups based on the interactive innovation model, farmers co-create with partners solutions to their needs and boost their productivity. Agricultural college teachers could facilitate these groups if a shift in the job profile is made. This would also improve their competencies in providing up-to-date VET training to their apprentices. Such a form of mutual support and further development is often just as effective as a RAS, but much cheaper. Of course, this also requires farmers who understand their trade and can continue to build on it.

The Partnership for Social Accountability (PSA) has just published a new report assessing the extent to which national agricultural policies, as well as budgeted programmes and projects, support agroecology in Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Despite some progress, the report reveals that support in these countries continues to favour conventional, industrial farming practices.

Part two of a webinar series on end-market demand and market systems analysis in Kenya and Uganda, based on a collaboration initiated by a consultancy of Practical Action for Biovision Foundation.

Short, informal session to share some thoughts for food with network members and anyone else interested

The SUN Movement Global Gathering is the Movement’s flagship event and one of the largest international gatherings within the nutrition community. The SUN Global Gathering brings together all SUN Government Focal Points and representatives of their partners from civil society, donors, United Nations agencies, private sector, academia, media, parliamentarians and others. It is an important moment where members take stock of progress and challenges, share their innovations and learn what is helping to reduce malnutrition across all SUN Countries, serving as an impactful platform for collaboration, learning, and mobilization in the fight against malnutrition in all its forms.