On 14th March 2025, CIHEAM Bari, already a Founding Member, officially get the FULL Membership of the AU-EU International Research Consortium (IRC) on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture in the framework of the Consortium Europe-Africa on Research and Innovation for Food Systems Transformation (CEA-FIRST).
The Consortium Europe-Africa on Research and Innovation for Food Systems Transformation (CEA-FIRST), is a bicontinental effort put together to operationalise the International Research Consortium (IRC) as a long-term platform on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) in line with the FNSSA Roadmap of the AU-EU High-Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD).
The International Research Consortium (IRC) on Food and Nutrition Security for Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) is a member-based, multi-actor coordinated research and innovation collaboration dedicated to the development of sustainable research, technological and innovative solutions and capacity building in priority areas of the Africa Union – European Union research and innovation partnership on FNSSA. The goal of the IRC is to address the long-standing problem of the highly fragmented R and I programmes, initiatives, and actors that has undermined returns on investments, by catalysing the synergies and alignment among them and creating a dynamic and long-term sustainable platform of partnerships, expertise, resources and shared knowledge towards promoting sustainable agriculture and food systems transformation and increased impact. Thereby contributing to food and nutrition security, resilience, youth employment and gender equity in Africa and Europe and to global SDGs.
