FCI4Africa
Fair Food and Trade Systems for Africa Through Food Convergence Innovation
FCI4Africa is a 4-year project supporting a holistic approach to African agriculture, promoting fair, sustainable, climate-neutral, and health-promoting trading practices, while ensuring economic prosperity at all levels and respecting human rights.
By evaluating the impact of certification criteria like deforestation-free, organic, and fair trade, and guiding policymakers, FCI4Africa fosters a just transition for African farmers, processors and traders, expanding their intra-African, and EU trading opportunities.
FCI4Africa aims to enhance sustainable, fair, and healthy food systems within Africa, focusing on free and fair trade, Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) harmonisation, and digitisation in food systems, alongside promoting knowledge development through open science and digital platforms.
Coordinated by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), FCI4Africa involves a partnership of 14 organisations from 7 countries.
| Funding program | Horizon Europe |
|---|---|
| Call | HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-01 |
| GA No. | 101182485 |
| Duration | 2024 - 2028 |
| EC Funding | € 4,499,353.24 |
| Website | fci4africa.eu |
| # Sectors | africa, foodsafety, foodtraceability, foodtransparency, sustainability |
Supporting Fair, Sustainable, Climate-neutral, and Health-promoting Trade Systems in the African Agricultural Sector
- 7 Countries
- 14 Partners
- 3 Use Cases
- ≥50 food participants engaged in the incubation and acceleration activities
- 2 Open Calls providing financial support of 600k € in total to 12 third parties
- ≥500 stakeholders (i.e., developers, data providers, farmers, SMEs, innovators, etc.) engaged with the Digital Knowledge Hub
reframe.food is leading WP6 Ecosystem Building and Cascade Funding, being responsible for the Dissemination, Exploitation, and Communication Plan and the creation of a dynamic ecosystem around the project, involving a diverse array of stakeholders, ensuring the long-term impact and sustainability of the project outcomes.
Additionally, reframe.food will lead the activities for the Open Call Preparation and Launch, as well as the Open Call Monitoring, Administration and Financial Management. In this aspect, reframe.food will launch 2 Open Calls (total budget of €600k) addressed to 1) research and technology stakeholders (i.e. start-ups, SMEs, research organisations) to test and validate initiatives that enhance trade and address NTMs, improving market access, 2) innovation hubs in order to provide online training to the use cases and projects selected by the 1st Open Call.