Accra Living Lab
Objective:
This living lab seeks to identify priority areas for food safety and nutrition, with a particular focus on neglected and underutilized crops and access to seeds.
Activities:
The key activities in this living lab are:
1. Research and Food innovation: To respond to current demand for healthy foods through promotion of neglected and underutilised crops.
2. Stakeholder engagement and capacity building: Training for farmers, food entrepreneurs, consumers in food safety, indigenous food utilization, and business development.
3. Stakeholder engagement and safe vegetable production: Identifying key actors, and designing multi-stakeholder collaboration framework to strengthen linkages between health, agriculture, and nutrition sector with focus on vegetable.
4. Nutrition education and awareness: Conducting multichannel outreach to provide valuable information about safe production and healthy diets.
5. Youth-led agribusiness and commercialisation support: Incubation and acceleration programs for youth-led food innovations, providing networking and mentorship, funding, business and technical training, in ensuring new jobs, food security and improving nutrition by focusing on locally-grown and sustainable crops.