Youth and Innovation Summit: Sustainable Solutions towards ZERO Hunger in Africa

25-26 October 2018, University of Nairobi, Republic of Kenya

The Regional workshop for Food Security Center, University of Nairobi on “Youth and Innovation Summit: Sustainable Solutions towards ZERO Hunger in Africa” was held on 25th-26th October, 2018 at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies in the University of Nairobi.

The summit was organized by the University of Nairobi as a strategic partner and sponsored through grants from DAAD under the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany in conjunction with the Food Security Centre of the University of Hohenheim in Germany with the theme of the summit was centered on SDG 2; Sustainable solutions towards zero hunger in Africa and SDG 1: No poverty. The aim of the regional summit was to aggregate all innovations and technologies developed by young scientists especially targeting the youth for agriculture (#CoolAgriculture) that can be used to address food insecurity which will later be disseminated for up take by households and farmers.