Across the world, food systems are changing in nearly all of their facets. Climate and environmental pressures, demographic changes, shifting diets, and the demand for resilient supply chains require food systems transformation at all levels. The Rwanda Food Innovation Partnership is a platform driven to find solutions to the food systems challenges, today and tomorrow. We're looking to envision, design, commercialize, and scale innovations across African food systems that:
The Rwanda Food Innovation Partnership is a platform that can turn fragmented effort into coordinated action, advancing food systems innovation across Africa and beyond, with Rwanda as the launch pad.
Rwanda Food Innovation
Partnership
Rwanda Food Innovation Partnership (RFIP) serves as a multi-stakeholder platform to envision, design, commercialize, and scale innovations across African food systems. RFIP connects Rwanda's research institutions, regulatory bodies, and private sector vehicles into one navigable pathway, so innovations move from development to market, and from Rwanda to the African continent. RFIP drives Rwanda's vision to become Africa's leading food systems innovation destination by 2035, delivering improved food security and nutrition, dignified jobs, and economic transformation.
Four accelerators, one ecosystem
A predictable pathway to market
Design of the Food Innovation Regulatory Sandbox, support to Government on policy reform for food innovation, and capacitybuilding for regulators and practitioners.Target: under 60 days from complete dossier to decision and 50+ pilots in the sandbox by 2035.
The most enabling place in the region to test global food innovation
Providing dedicated facilitation to the private sector. Mobilising 50+ agri-food companies to invest in testing, adapting and scaling innovations in Rwanda and across the continent. Connecting projects to financiers and co-investors.
Rwanda's next generation of food innovators
Venture support scaling to 25+ ventures per year, raising cammercialisation and startup survival rates.
Building the talent the economy requires
A specialised skills pipeline delivering 500+ graduates and 200+ trained regulators and professionals per year by 2035, partnerships with global universities and institutes, and research and development infrastructure.
Organizations across research, regulation, and businesses collaborating through the RFIP Partners Group.
Join research, regulatory, business, and industry partners building Africa's food future.
Answers to common questions about RFIP, partnership, and the innovation pathway.
RFIP is a government-mandated, multi-stakeholder platform that connects research institutions, regulatory bodies, and businesses into one navigable pathway for food innovation.
