SPEAR

The European and African farming sector is acknowledged as being highly diverse, both with regards to management and standards, but also in society’s approach, and level of technical development among stakeholders. SPEAR consortium has been designed to provide strong competence and knowledge for each aspect of the value chain analysis. Due to the inter-and trans-disciplinary nature of the project, the team includes experts with different disciplinary backgrounds and research interests: development, agriculture and environmental sciences, socio-economy, in addition to private sector players and policy professionals as well as practitioners providing a significant amount of expertise. This diversity helps to significantly spread the impact of the project over many domains. Many of the participants from these partners have collaborated in the past in national, EU or other international projects. This ensures that the consortium has enough congruence to enable the synergies needed for successfully completing the complex research tasks.

CSIR-STEPRI and KALRO, are the institutes representing the very core of LEAP-Agri mandate addressing policy issues relating to transferring technology from developed to developing countries and providing demand-driven research for food security and income generation. CSIR-STEPRI’s role will be to facilitate the development, transfer, utilization, and management of Science, Technology, and Innovation to meet specific needs, while KALRO will promote, streamline, coordinate and regulate research in livestock.
ITA works in the field of Research and Development in Food and Nutrition; it will provide targeted research for sustainable development, training and quality assurance of food.

UPM is the oldest and largest Spanish Technical Universities. Within UPM the GESPLAN Group will approach the rural development problems in an interdisciplinary way using models of planning, management, and evaluation. NIBIO will contribute to food security and safety, sustainable resource management, innovation, and value creation through its research capacity and knowledge within the food industry.