📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT DETAILS
Project number:
2018.0122.4
Status:
running project
Responsible organizational unit:
G520 Rural development
Contact person:
Dorith von Behaim dorith.von-behaim@giz.de
Partner countries:
Global projects, convention/sector/pilot projects
SUMMARY
Goals:
The actors of the knowledge hubs and their networks in the regions of Eastern and Southern Africa as well as in West, North and Central Africa are strengthened in their role in promoting organic farming and agroecology.
Client:
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Project partners:
German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH
Financier:
not available
ORDER VOLUME
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if any)
38,000,000 euros
Current project:
38,000,000 euros
COMBINED FINANCING
not available
PREVIOUS PROJECT
not available
SUCCESSOR PROJECT
not available
DURATION
Overall project:
(including all previous, current and subsequent project phases, if any)
12/19/2018 - 03/31/2028
Current project:
01/01/2019 - 03/31/2028
OTHER PARTIES INVOLVED
AKRYL digital agency GmbH
FLMH Laboratory for Politics and
FURTHER INFORMATION
Project website
not available
DEVELOPMENT POLICY IDENTIFIERS
Biodiversity Convention
Significant secondary objective
Combating desertification
Significant secondary objective
Gender equality
Significant secondary objective
Adaptation to climate change
Significant secondary objective
CRS KEY
31120 Agricultural Development
EVALUATION
not available
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (DE)
Initial situation
The project was conceived in 2018 as part of the BMZ special initiative ONE WORLD without hunger and is part of the special initiative Transformation of agricultural and food systems . It contributes to the implementation of the BMZ core topic strategy 2021 on food security and the strengthening of agroecological approaches. Organic farming is the focus of the project. Given the increasing importance of this topic in the sector, in German development cooperation and at the international level, agroecology will also be included in the objectives and activities of the project with the proposed change.
The greening of agriculture and the conversion of conventional farms to organic farming methods requires a deeper understanding of ecological relationships and extensive knowledge of corresponding practices in agricultural production, processing and marketing for the respective locations and contexts. Civil society actors are pioneers of organic farming and agroecology in Africa. To date, however, these actors do not have sufficient knowledge, context-appropriate knowledge in adapted formats and capacities for the further dissemination of agroecological practices in production, processing and marketing, as well as principles in training and further education and in policy dialogue.
Goal
German: The actors of
