Our 16 Research Directors based in central, east, west and southern Africa, play a crucial role in facilitating capacity building in our member institutions. This is aimed at advancing growth in the ANAPRI network, and strengthening our research and outreach activities in the continent. Join me in congratulating ANAPRI’s newest Research Director, Dr. Mmatlou Kalaba! He is a Senior Analyst …

Lusaka, 27th January 2023 ANAPRI experts from 16 member institutions of 15 African countries have taken part in two capacity building workshops held in Lusaka and Nairobi in the same week. These activities took place from the 24th to the 27th of January 2022. In Lusaka, the training was sponsored by GIZ, with a focus on promoting a tool called …

Washington DC, United States of America, 19th December 2022 ANAPRI’s Executive Director- Dr. Nalishebo Meebelo has met with key ANAPRI partners in Washington DC with the aim of strengthening relations between ANAPRI and these institutions while forging new project partnerships. The Executive Director has so far met with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Feed the Future …

Windhoek, Namibia,1-3 November 2022, Written by the ANAPRI Secretariat Team The 9th ReNAPRI Stakeholders Conference which took place in Windhoek, Namibia from the 1st to the  3rd of November 2022 was designed to bring together like-minded stakeholders with an interest in strengthening Africa’s food system through increased productivity, climate resilience and adaptation. This annual convening was the venue for the …

Edith Cowan University (ECU) has honored ANAPRI’s Executive Director – Dr. Nalishebo Meebelo with an award for making a mark in local communities, and on the world stage. Between 2001 and 2009, Dr. Nalishebo attained three degrees at ECU. She currently heads the Secretariat of the Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ReNAPRI), and also co-Chairs the Task Force …

In the second episode of ‘ECDPM Talks on: COP27’ podcast series, Koen Dekeyser, policy officer in ECDPM’s sustainable food systems and climate action and green transition teams, talks to Dr Nalishebo Meebelo. Koen and Dr Nalishebo Meebelo talk about the impact the climate crisis is already having on African food systems, what adaptation in Africa’s food systems could look like …

Abuja, Nigeria 11-15th September 2022. As the sun began setting on Sunday 11th September 2022 in Nigeria’s Capital Abuja, so too was a team of ReNAPRI experts signing into the Transcorp Hilton Hotel upon invitation of one of ReNAPRI’s strategic partners – the Alliance for African Partnerships (AAP). This stellar team of two led by Dr. Andrew Agyei-Holmes sitting in …

September 5-9, 2022, Kigali, Rwanda The African Union Commission (AUC) has launched preparations for the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit (AFSHS) during a special session at the ongoing AGRF2022 Summit in Kigali, Rwanda. It was launched by the African Union Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, H.E Ambassador Josefa Sacko and was attended by senior people from governments, development …

September 6th 2022 South Africa: A two-day policy dialogue on agriculture and food systems in the SADC region concluded in Pretoria, South Africa, with SADC urging member states to move quickly to engage all relevant stakeholders in turning policies, strategies, and plans into actual implementation to enable the region to build sustainable agricultural and food systems. The dialogue was organized to …

September 2nd 2022. The STAAARS+ Fellows program, a part of the USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy Research, Capacity, and Influence (PRCI), is a collaboration between Cornell University, Michigan State University (MSU), and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to advance rigorous, policy-oriented food security research on topics of inclusive agricultural- and rural transformation, development of …