Dr. Dorothee Flaig and Dr. Kirsten Boysen-Urban attended the launch of StEPPFoS taking place from February 15 to 16 in Tema, Ghana.
The African Union (AU) and the European Commission (EC) launched the Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy Practice for Sustainable Food Systems under the AU-EU Partnership (StEPPFoS), which aims to promote policy coherence and alignment across the Pan-African Network for economic Analysis of Policies (PANAP) and for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) to help minimise the fragmentation of agri-food policy initiatives at national and regional levels.
The project is funded by the European Commission's Horizon Europe funding programme for 2024-2027 and coordinated by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA).
The Department for International Agricultural Trade and Food Security of the University of Hohenheim is involved in the StEPPFoS project in Work packages assessing the barriers and facilitators of policy – research interaction, capacity building in Computable General Equilibrium Modelling and Analysis and Scenario Development for Food System Transformation.
The Department of International Agricultural Trade and Food Security (490b) of the University of Hohenheim will participate in the StEPPFoS project together with seventeen other research institutes and organisations in Europe and Africa. Dr Dorothee Flaig and Dr Kirsten Boysen-Urban (490b) lead/co-lead three work packages and several activities such as assessing barriers and facilitators of policy-research interaction, providing capacity building in computable general equilibrium modelling and analysis, supporting policy impact assessments and developing scenarios for food system transformation in Africa.
