The project “Strengthening Evidence-Based Policy Practice for Sustainable Food Systems under the EU-AU Partnership” (StEPPFoS) supported by the African Union Commission and the European Commission aims to promote policy coherence and alignment across the Pan-African Network for economic Analysis of Policies (PANAP) and for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) to help minimise the fragmentation of agri-food policy initiatives at national and regional levels. The goal is to promote science-based decision-making processes and the exchange of experiences in support of agricultural, food and trade policies and the integrative sustainable transformation of agrifood systems in Africa.

The project is funded by the European Commission's Horizon Europe funding programme for the period 2024-2027 and is coordinated by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA).

The International Agricultural Trade and Food Security group (490b) of the University of Hohenheim participates in the StEPPFoS project together with seventeen other research institutes and organisations in Europe and Africa. The group leads/co-leads three work packages and several activities such as assessing barriers and facilitators of policy-research interaction, providing capacity building in computable general equilibrium modelling and analysis, supporting policy impact assessments and developing scenarios for agrifood system transformation in Africa.

https://steppfos.faraafrica.org/