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Project

Cultivate Africa’s Future 2 – Operations
 

Project ID
108791
Total Funding
CAD 2,769,094.00
IDRC Officer
Santiago Alba Corral
Project Status
Active
Duration
60 months

Programs and partnerships

Summary

This project will support the implementation of the Cultivate Africa's Future Fund Phase 2 (CultiAF-2) by covering the operational costs, including salaries and benefits, travel, and office costs.Read more

This project will support the implementation of the Cultivate Africa's Future Fund Phase 2 (CultiAF-2) by covering the operational costs, including salaries and benefits, travel, and office costs. CultiAF is a partnership between IDRC and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research that was created in 2013. CultiAF supports research to achieve long-term food security in eastern and southern Africa. Phase one (CultiAF-1) funded eight projects in five out of ten focus countries (Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe). On June 23, 2017 a second phase for CultiAF was signed as part of a ten-year partnership between the two organizations.

The main objective of CultiAF-2 is to improve food and nutrition security in eastern and southern Africa by funding applied research to develop and scale up sustainable, climate-resilient, and gender-responsive innovations for smallholder producers. CultiAF-2 will focus on four key priorities targeting smallholder farmers: improved productivity and incomes and reduction in post-harvest losses; improved gender equality; linking agriculture, nutrition, and human health; and climate change and sustainable water management. It will focus on the same countries as CultiAF-1 (Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) while also funding the scale up of successful innovations from CultiAF-1.

About the partnership

Partnerships

Cultivate Africa's Future

IDRC and ACIAR partnership focused on improving food security, resilience and gender equality across Eastern and Southern Africa.