CUD/ CIUF four years program funded by DGCD, implemented by French speaking university research centers

• http://www.cud.be/content/view/330/80/lang,/

• 3 CUD’s GRAPs : GRAP a.a.a quite new

• Coordination Prof P. Lebailly Gembloux Agro-Bio-Tech (ULg)

• ULg-UCL- UAM (Niger)-UNIKIN (Kinshasa)

GRAP a.a.a.food, agriculture, africa

Main objectives• Scientific cooperation, support to South research teams• Increase commitment of “young” south scholars and

researchers in international scientific debate and local expertise on food security

• Improve co-expertise on F.S. in the universities centers and support larger commitment of university south experts in their national expertise arena

• Partnership with the Belgian cooperation– Follow-up Committee (DGCD, BTC, FBSA…)– Platforms in Belgium DASA, PFSA – Moved closer dialogue with local belgian cooperation

representatives (Niger-DRC) and their partners

An empirical, comparative and multidisciplinary

approach- Not a “one more concept” !- Not mainly on conceptual battlefield+ Multidisciplinary analysis+ A really supporting knowledge+ A more comprehensive approach+ Close focus on local situations but integrated approach including :

- poor urban family resilience and collective innovations (Kinshasa) : the breakdown of a family model

- gender, food access and nutrition in rural Niger

- local and regional markets (Niger, RDC)- Aid business and international

commitments

Contrasted problems and issues

Niamey : Prof. Yamba, Dr Maman Manzo (UAM), Prof Tidani Alou (UAM-Lasdel)

• Niger issues : food availability-food access, food politics, food arena (collective and institutional actors), aid, national regulation, fooding and gender : four PhD research programs

DRC’s main fields : Kinshasa, Bandundu, Kivu

• Prof N’Toto, Prof. Lebailly, Prof. Poncelet, Prof. Duquesne, Damien Muteba, Langwana-Musenge, Nambuwa, Pongo (Unikin) : poor households finance, practices of buying, cooking and consumption : empirical quantitative and qualitative research, : household resilience, news food standarts, family organization (ages, gender social capital) 

• Prof. Kinkela, Patience Mpanzu Balomba, (Unikin) food production and local food distribution in Bas-Congo (R. D. Congo).

• Prof.Kinkela, Prof N’Toto, Toussaint Kendenga, Unikin and IITA. Food importation and food security of households in Kinshasa

• Stany Vwima (UCB) borders food exchanges and food availability in Bukavu

• Guillaume Bidula, (UCB) Household food security and collective solidarity mutual networks

Thank you