Donor:
Funded by the EU under The Horizon Europe Programme
Period:
2024 – 2026
Budget:
€ 7,002, 420
Target countries:
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Namibia, Ghana, Egypt, Portugal, Germany, UK, and Turkey and Southern Africa
Summary:
INNOECOFOOD project aims to address the above issues with agro-ecological approaches coupled with AI and IoT technologies and certification to ensure safe, nutritious and marketable food supplies in six African countries, with three in East Africa. To support EU-AU markets and trade, INNOECOFOOD, an Innovation project will train rural farmers, youth and women to innovatively produce and process nutritious aquaculture fish, blue-green cyanobacteria spirulina, and selected insect value chains at pilot/large scale level into certified marketable human food products and feed. This farm to fork approach will be achieved by using climate smart sustainable local resources, innovatively designed ECOHUBs following Good Manufacturing Practice. Prototypes of innovative pilot scale solar coolers and driers will be created and replicated in four ECOHUBs using renewable energy, reduced water consumption and circular systems to address the AU/European Green Deal, by an experienced multi-actor consortium comprising 20 partners in Europe and Africa and rural communities.
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