Pepper grows in a field surrounded by and filled with bamboo poles to act as a trelis

Pepper plantation in Myanmar

Photo: Dominique Guenat
BFH-HAFL Hugo P. Cecchini Institute
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Many city inhabitants worldwide eat unhealthily. A recent Learning Forum hosted by Syngenta Foundation gave an update on progress with improvements in Kenya and Rwanda. Awareness and agriculture both play a big role.

Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture

Story about the NICE project’s Nutrition Farmers' Hubs, and the positive effect on Luna Akhter, who is now a vegetable seedling producer.

Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture

Urban food systems are confronted with questions of supply and demand to address malnutrition in all its forms. The Nutrition in Cities Ecosystems (NICE) Project aims to tackle such challenges

ETH Zürich Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture

The NICE project brings together urban dwellers, farmers, producers, and other food system players for the World Food Day 2023 commemoration in Bungoma County in line with the theme of water conservation.

Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture

Syngenta Foundation article on the measures taken to increase rice yields in West Africa.

Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture

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