News & Insights

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.

For smallholder farmers to build more resilient farming enterprises, it is necessary to foster support services that enable them to flourish. We're looking for private companies to deliver business development services to smallholder farmers in Tanzania's Southern Highlands.

In a mutually beneficial deal between onion farmers from the Pangani riverbank and East Africa Fruits, farmers are growing quality, healthy onions for the markets in Dar es Salaam.

With covid-19 interrupting many interventions, we had to find new ways to promote sustainable rice cultivation with rice farmers and other stakeholders in Uganda. Explore more in this story!

Is the food Arusha's citizens consume healthy? Is it safe & nutritious? Together with Iles de Paix and Farm Radio, Rikolto has kicked of an interactive radio programme to raise consumers’ awareness about healthy, safe, and nutritious food.

Access to finance as the last piece of the puzzle to achieve mass production for farmers in Arusha and Manyara. Explore their story here.

One failed contract does not mean the end of a partnership. Find out more in the story about the Kwapa chili famers and MACE Foods.

Equipping young entrepreneurs with the right tools to pursue their innovative ideas, that's what the Generation Food Bootcamp is all about. To create a sustainable food system in Arusha, we need fresh & innovative ideas. Read more here!

Thanks to a loan from the Belgian association Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs (OVO), entrepreneur Leonard Shayo can kickstart the production of precooked beans in Tanzania. Read more here.

Do you have the impression that 2019 just flew by? So do we! However, looking back at it, a lot has happened for Rikolto in East Africa. Want to find out what exactly we did? Our annual report 2019 is now available!

Meet the Generation Food entrepreneurs: They are young, ambitious and the driving force behind food system change. On 27-28 August, they took part in the Generation Food Hackathon in Arusha to develop their business ideas.

It is that time of year again… Every year, in September, the African Green Revolution Forum takes place. With this year’s topic being “feed the cities, grow the continent”, our colleagues will - vitually - share their insights on Arusha’s food system and what other cities can learn from it.

DEADLINE CLOSED | We’re done with business as usual! You too? We’re looking for the next generation of food entrepreneurs, who are motivated to unlock business solutions for a sustainable and fair food system in Arusha together with 200 other youth during a 2-day Generation Food Hackathon. Apply by 19 August, 4pm!

Our rice expert Djalou is taking sustainable rice practices to the next (national) level in Tanzania. Read more about her trip to Morogoro here.

Kampala has been booming as an innovation and start-up business hub. Now, the COVID-19 crisis and its confinement measures are forcing businesses to adapt their models. Let's have a closer look at one example of an innovative company in the food industry: Bringo Fresh.

The kiosk has been around for centuries, but is still innovative as a model for selling fresh fruit and vegetables, especially during the covid-19 pandemic.

In Tanzania, 90% of water is consumed by agriculture, with most farmers using inefficient irrigation methods. A switch to solar-powered irrigation systems reduces the impact on climate change and increases farmers’ income.

“Access to affordable and quality food for all, today and in the future.” This is our mission and during this corona crisis it is more relevant but also more difficult than ever.

The demand for rice is growing, but Tanzania's rice production potential is left untapped. With improved production and irrigation systems, Tanzania could produce enough quality rice to meet the regional rice demand. Living up to this potential is of course not a one-person job. Rikolto will therefore join the rice taskforce created to support the National Rice Development Strategy II.

Updated! The COVID-19 pandemic, besides a global health crisis, is also a challenge for food and nutrition security. One thing is clear: People should not have to choose between their health or their food. Beans are both very much loved and highly nutritious - how can they be a viable solution for food security?

Big news! We have started a new project to support smallholder farmers in Northern Uganda. On 14 January 2020, the project kicked off as part of a wider partnership between the Government of Uganda and the European Union.

What can we learn from farmers in Kenya? An exchange visit showed that innovative tools are creating incentives for smallholder farmers to adopt good agricultural techniques and increase productivity.

How to put 'inclusive business' principles in practice? Two examples of how East African farmers gained better access to services in specific business cases brokered by Rikolto.