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Two Business service providers (BSP) needed to design food safety brochures and training manuals for urban innovative technologies and for supplying agricultural inputs and setup of appropriate demonstration sites. The supplier will carry out the assignment with Rikolto and Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA) supervisors, administering and managing the overall contract implementation.

Young people are full of compelling and promising ideas to change the recipe of our food systems. This is the reason why for this #AfricanCITYFOODmonth campaign, Rikolto has decided to put young changemakers in the spotlight.

With the support of Rikolto and funding by the European Union, the Tanzania Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture is now inviting sealed tenders from eligible national contractors to rehabilitate Igawilo, Soweto and Sokoine Market in Mbeya. Deadline: 8 July.

DEADLINE EXTENDED | Rikolto is looking for a consultant to conduct an efficiency analysis on the social, economic and environmental returns on investment of urban & peri-urban agriculture in Kampala. Proposals can be submitted until 12 July 2021, 5pm.

DEADLINE EXTENDED | We are looking for a firm or individual to improve market stalls with basic infrastructure in Mbale to increase access to healthy, sustainable and nutritious fruits for all. Deadline to submit proposals: 12 July 2021

Are you a young and passionate food entrepreneur, who wants to create new and innovative solutions to ensure sustainability and inclusiveness in the food system in Tanzania’s Southern Highlands? Join the Generation Food Accelerator in the Southern Highlands! Deadline for application 19 July 2021, 23:59pm

Food safety is everyone's business, but awareness is one of the gaps in ensuring that all fresh fruits and vegetables consumed are safe & healthy. Together with Bringo Fresh, we are organising a webinar on 2 June to enhance food safety awareness throughout the value chain. This webinar is organised ahead of World Food Safety Day on 7 June.

In 2009, secondary schools in Lira partnered up with Rikolto and YOUCA to empower Ugandan youth to become active in agriculture. Now more than a decade later, we revisited the schools in Lira to learn from our previous experience and integrate learnings in our future programmes. Tag along with Rikolto colleague Hannes and read his story about his journey to the schools in Lira.