The Nutrition in City Ecosystems project (NICE) aims to improve nutrition and health, and to reduce poverty. It does so by increasing both the demand for, and supply of, nutritious and agroecologically produced foods. To strengthen value chains, the project particularly stimulates female and youth entrepreneurship.

NICE runs in Kenya, Rwanda and Bangladesh. It focuses on ‘secondary’ cities, away from each country’s capital. The sharing of lessons is planned locally and internationally. Basel can benefit from the NICE cities, and vice versa. Our Learning Forum is an important step in this process. We plan an ‘Impulse-Talk’ by an African representative from Basel University, presentations by Project Managers from Kenya and Rwanda, and a discussion with the audience.