RUNRES: The rural-urban nexus: Establishing a nutrient loop to improve city region food systems.
Implemented by the Institute for sustainable Agroecosystems of ETHZ, RUNRES will seek to improve the resilience and sustainability of food systems in four different rural-urban regions across Africa. It will encourage nutrient & waste recycling by installing and redirecting the byproducts of innovative, ecological, hygienically safe sanitation solutions. The organic matter may then serve as an input for smallholder producers to generate a circular flow of nutrients in agriculture, reinvigorating thus regional food systems.
| Land/Region | Thema | Periode | Budget |
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Weltweit |
Landwirtschaft und Ernährungssicherheit Wasser Beschäftigung & Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Landwirtschaftliche Entwicklung
Landwirtschaftliche Forschung Landwirtschaftspolitik Wasserhygiene Städtische Entwicklung |
01.04.2018
- 30.04.2023 |
CHF 4’903’000
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- Direct beneficiaries : Private entreprises, local municipalities, local organisations,
- End beneficiaries: smallholder farmers and urban underserved communities.
- Improved control of nutrient flows and recycling of nutrients across the rural-urban nexus.
- The development of locally suitable solutions- private enterprise, public investment, public/private partnerships, and civic science that will enable sustainable sanitation and waste-recycling innovations.
- Increased access and use of locally sources soil amendments that will improve sustainable local agriculture.
- Facilitate an enabling policy environment for the scaling of ad diffuse selected innovations in partnership with policymakers and practitioners as well as beyond the RUNRES focus regions.
- Waste collection, transport, and processing is improved.
- Pathways are established to increase local agricultural production with waste-recycled input products.
- Best practices and knowledge are defined and scaling partners are engaged to diffuse them at local and regional level.
- A network among agri-food system actors is established to implement food value chain innovations.
- Beratungsgruppe für internationale Agrarforschung
- ETHZ Zürich
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Sektor nach Kategorisierung des Entwicklungshilfeekomitees der OECD LANDWIRTSCHAFT
WASSERVERSORGUNG & SIEDLUNGSHYGIENE
LANDWIRTSCHAFT
WASSERVERSORGUNG & SIEDLUNGSHYGIENE
OTHER MULTISECTOR
Sub-Sektor nach Kategorisierung des Entwicklungshilfeekomitees der OECD Förderung der Landwirtschaft
Landwirtschaftliche Forschung
Sanitärversorgung
Politik und Verwaltung in der Landwirtschaft
Sanitärversorgung
Stadtentwicklung und -verwaltung
Querschnittsthemen Projekt fördert die Biodiversität.
Projekt unterstützt auch Verbesserungen in der Partnerorganisation
Unterstützungsform Auftrag mit treuhänderischer Mittelverwaltung
Projekt- und Programmbeitrag
Projektnummer 7F09521
| Hintergrund | Unprecedented urban growth is placing enormous burdens on governments across Africa. Demand for infrastructure, services, and basic needs such as housing, sanitation, and food security is growing. The underserved communities in informal settlements rarely have access to running water or municipal sanitation services and suffer from chronic food insecurity. At the moment, the two critical development challenges are seen as disparate problems whose solutions are unrelated to each other. However, developing synergy between the two is not only possible, but necessary. |
| Ziele | The main objective of RUNRES is to co-design, test, implement and scale safe, (cost-) efficient and socially acceptable innovations to valorize urban and rural waste resources and improve food value chains in order to enhance circular economies and thereby improve the resilience of city region food systems. |
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| Resultate |
Erwartete Resultate: Resultate von früheren Phasen: The implementation of a transdisciplinary process requires the co-development of activities and outputs with relevant stakeholders in each of the four city region food systems. As such baselines for the first phase will be developed during the first year of the project implementation. |
| Verantwortliche Direktion/Bundesamt |
DEZA |
| Kreditbereich |
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit |
| Projektpartner |
Vertragspartner Ausländische Hochschul- und Forschungsinstitution Schweizerische Hochschul- und Forschungsinstitution |
| Koordination mit anderen Projekten und Akteuren | The project will work and coordinate with a large network of different actors in the respective countries. It will also coordinate with FAO, Forum of Agriculture Research in Africa (FARA), the African Union, Cities alliance, Eawag - Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology. |
| Budget | Laufende Phase Schweizer Beitrag CHF 4’903’000 Bereits ausgegebenes Schweizer Budget CHF 4’793’326 Projekttotal seit Anfangsphase Schweizer Beitrag CHF 119’900 Budget inklusive Projektpartner CHF 9’150’000 |
| Projektphasen |
Phase 1 01.04.2018 - 31.12.2023 (Completed) |
