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19/07/2026

🌍 CALL FOR EXHIBITORS & SIDE EVENTS | ADAF26

Join the African Diaspora Agrofood Exhibition & Marketplace on 24 October 2026 in Brussels, Belgium, as part of the 10th African Diaspora Agrofood Forum (ADAF26)!
We're inviting African diaspora entrepreneurs, food businesses, cooperatives, innovators, NGOs, researchers, investors and development organisations from across Europe to showcase their products, services and innovations.
✨ Highlights include:
🛍️ Exhibition & Marketplace
🎓 Workshops & Masterclasses
💡 Information Sessions
🤝 Networking & Partnership Opportunities
🎤 Side Events & Live Demonstrations
Have a great idea? Host your own workshop, info session, panel, tasting, demonstration or interactive activity!
Whether you're working in indigenous foods, agribusiness, food innovation, food technology, trade, investment, research, youth entrepreneurship, climate-smart agriculture or diaspora engagement, this is your opportunity to connect with Europe's leading African agrofood ecosystem.
📅 24 October 2026
📍 Brussels, Belgium
📣 Exhibitors and side event organisers are welcome from across Europe.
📩 Apply or express your interest:
[email protected] | [email protected]

Showcase your work. Build partnerships. Shape the future of global food systems.


Soliris.brussels
Association of Kenyan Diaspora in Belgium and Luxembourg
KIYODEL Uganda
Gents Afrika Platform
Jean-Philippe Movez Vézina
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IOM Belgium and Luxembourg
COLEAD.link
Colead Linking
Africa Centre Ireland
Afro Brussels City
Afrika in Vlaanderen
Association des Femmes Entrepreneures de Guinée
Enabel
Alefa Diaspora asbl
DiasporaVote
FORIM

16/07/2026

🌍🍽️ Let's Help Bring EDIBLE! to Life 🎨✨

At The Food Bridge, we are proud to support our friend and partner Jashan Sippy and Sugar & Space as they prepare to launch EDIBLE!—an exciting new event in Antwerp that places food at the heart of culture, creativity, heritage, identity, and social change.

Through exhibitions, tastings, workshops, performances, and debates, EDIBLE! will inspire new ways of thinking about food and its role in shaping our communities and our future.

💚 This inspiring initiative is now crowdfunding, and every donation—big or small—will help bring this vision to life.

👉 Please support the campaign here: Donate to EDIBLE!
https://growfunding.be/en/projects/edible

Together, let's help make EDIBLE! a reality and celebrate the power of food to connect, inspire, and transform. Please share in your network.




Association of Kenyan Diaspora in Belgium and Luxembourg
Expats in Brussels (English)
Bright Expats Brussels
Belgian Smaak
Brussels Women's Club
Internationaal Comité Vzw

Van 14 tot 16 oktober 2026 organiseren we in Antwerpen een nieuw event rond voedsel: EDIBLE. Dit is geen foodfestival. We nodigen kunstenaar ... omen.

16/07/2026

On October 26 2026, Wageningen University & Research will be organizing a symposium on the role and potential of neglected and underutilized species for healthy and sustainable diets globally.
The event includes presentations from experts throughout the food system, from leading researchers in seed systems, political economy, nutrition, biodiversity of diets, and ethnobotany to famous chefs and journalists.

Key note speakers :

Dan Saladino, BBC journalist and author of “Eating to extinction”
Emile van der Staak, chef of Michelin star restaurant De Nieuwe Winkel in Nijmegen, the Netherlands & Wouter van Eck, food forest pioneer
Wisdom Abiro, Head chef at Ghana Food Movement, Ghana
Dr. Mercy Lung’aho, Program Lead for Food Security, Nutrition and Health at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria
Prof. Baukje de Roos, Chair of Nutrition, Health & Sustainable Food Systems of University of Aberdeen, U.K.
Dr. Patrick Maundu, ethnobotanist at the National Museums of Kenya (Kenya Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge – KENRIK), Kenya
Dr. Wanjiku Gichohi, Public Health Nutritionist and Food Systems Researcher at World Fish, Malaysia
Dr. Emily Ouma, Senior Scientist, Agricultural Economist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Uganda
Dr. Mathieu Ayenan, Associate Scientist – Vegetable Breeder, World Vegetable Center, Benin
Followed by reception with snacks and drinks. Omnia building, Wageningen University Campus, the Netherlands
Free entrance after registration for everyone.
Registration: link to form

Neglected & Underutilized species Do they deserve a place at every table?

15/07/2026

🌍We are going to the World Social Forum 2026!

From 4–8 August, the Collective Action on Forgotten Foods (CAFF) will be at the World Social Forum with an exhibition stand and an exciting side event.

🌱 Side Event: Growing the Food Future: Youth, Innovation and Indigenous Food Systems
Come and discover how indigenous crops and forgotten foods can transform nutrition, biodiversity, climate resilience, and livelihoods

Have a better understanding of how young people are leading this movement through innovation ,entrepreneurship and community actions.

🤝 Visit our stand, meet our partners, share your ideas and join the global conversation on the future of food systems.

📍 World Social Forum

🗓️ 4–8 August 2026

We look forward to meeting you!

The Collective Action on Forgotten Foods is a program of the Global Forum on Agricultural Innovation and Research (GFAiR), coordinated by The Food Bridge VZW, funded by the European Union, with technical support from IFAD.

10/07/2026

🚀 APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!
🌍 Are you an African diaspora agrofood entrepreneur living in Europe? Are you creating impact through agriculture, food, agribusiness and food innovation in Africa, Europe or the Caribbean?
Your enterprise could be featured in the 2026 Compendium of African Diaspora Agrofood Entrepreneurs—a flagship publication celebrating visionary entrepreneurs connecting continents through food, innovation and investment.
✨ Gain international visibility.
🤝 Connect with partners and investors.
🌱 Inspire the next generation of diaspora entrepreneurs.
📅 Applications close: 15 August 2026
🇬🇧 Apply in English:
https://lnkd.in/ekC4YkqQ
🇫🇷 Postulez en français :
https://lnkd.in/eErg2qGt
Help us showcase the innovators transforming food systems across continents.

02/07/2026

Are you an African Diasporan in Belgium with an interesting African food project or research? You can showcase your work at the Roots and Recipes Fair, an activity for the 2026 European Researchers Night .
Soliris.brussels
KIYODEL Uganda
Association of Kenyan Diaspora in Belgium and Luxembourg

Gents Afrika Platform
Alefa Diaspora asbl
Afrika in Vlaanderen

30/06/2026

Are you part of the African diaspora living in Belgium?

We invite you to participate in a new study exploring the African diaspora food market in Belgium. The survey aims to generate data that can support policymakers, entrepreneurs, researchers, advocates, and consumers in strengthening African food systems, businesses, and market opportunities.
📝 Complete the survey here in French or English :
https://forms.gle/BmviefAYEmYaaLtbA

This study is also relevant to the future of global food systems, as diaspora communities play an important role in shaping demand for diverse, nutritious, climate-resilient, and culturally meaningful foods.

📝 Complete the survey here:
https://forms.gle/BmviefAYEmYaaLtbA

Your voice matters. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey and share it with your family, friends, and networks across Belgium.

Together, we can help shape inclusive, sustainable, and resilient food systems in Belgium, Africa, and beyond.




Soliris.brussels
Behind Marygift Walls Foundation
AfroMedica
Association of Kenyan Diaspora in Belgium and Luxembourg
KIYODEL Uganda
Alefa Diaspora asbl
Afro Brussels City
Gents Afrika Platform
Radio Campus Bruxelles

Vous êtes invité à participer à une enquête visant à mieux comprendre le marché alimentaire de la diaspora Africaine en Belgique . L'objectif est de comprendre les préférences des consommateurs, les défis, les opportunités et les influences culturelles liés aux aliments africains. Grâce...

29/06/2026

🌱 Are you a youth or woman working with forgotten foods? We want to hear from you!

Do you grow, process, market or promote indigenous and forgotten foods such as fonio, bambara groundnut, millet, yam, tiger nuts, indigenous vegetables, traditional fruits, herbs or other local crops?

The Collective Action on Forgotten Foods (CAFF) is mapping youth and women entrepreneurs, farmers, processors and marketers across Africa to better understand their work and identify the support they need to grow.

📝 Complete our short survey and tell us:
✅ Which forgotten foods you work with
✅ The challenges you face
✅ The support you need to access better markets, finance, training and partnerships

Your input will help shape future programmes, investment opportunities and market access initiatives for forgotten foods across Africa. Together, we can build stronger, more resilient and inclusive food systems.

📋 Survey Links
🇬🇧 English: https://forms.gle/j1HjV81cBUV1bCgA9

🇫🇷 Français : https://forms.gle/ojn5RWfyEETeiAun8

📢 Please share this post with entrepreneurs, farmers, cooperatives, women's groups and youth networks working with forgotten foods.

Africa Faith & Justice Network COLEAD.link fans
Nigerian Food Channel Oxfam in Nigeria European Union in Nigeria GhanaWeb TV3 Ghana KIYODEL Uganda Suzy Farms Home Gardening, Ghana (Garden For All) Pan African Farmers Organisation Nigerian Farmers Club Nigerian Food Channel Cameroon Tribune Association des étudiants Congolais Bomoko -Ancien CEC LLN-

Partout en Afrique, des milliers de jeunes et de femmes préservent, produisent, transforment et commercialisent des aliments oubliés et autochtones susceptibles d’améliorer la nutrition, de créer des emplois décents, de renforcer les économies locales et de mettre en place des systèmes alim...

08/06/2026

🌍 SAVE THE DATE | ADAF26

The Food Bridge is pleased to announce the 10th African Diaspora Agrofood Forum (ADAF26), will take place from the 23rd to 24th of October 2026 in Brussels, Belgium.
🎯 Theme:
Reimagining Remittances: Mobilizing Diaspora Wealth for Inclusive Agrofood Entrepreneurship & Food Systems Transformation.

As African diasporas in Europe continue to contribute billions of euros in remittances annually, ADAF26 will explore how diaspora capital, knowledge, innovation, and networks can be leveraged to drive agrofood entrepreneurship, strengthen sustainable food systems, create jobs, and accelerate economic transformation across Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe.

🎤 Call for Speakers
🤝 Call for Partners
🌟 Call for Sponsors

Join entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, researchers, development partners, and food innovators from Africa, Europe, and the global diaspora as we celebrate 10 years of connecting people, ideas, and opportunities in the agrofood sector.

📅 23–24 October 2026
📍 Brussels, Belgium
📧 [email protected]




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Soliris.brussels
COLEAD.link
Caribbean Chamber of Commerce - Europe
Afro Brussels City
Streaming EU Africa
Enabel
Africa Faith & Justice Network
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Association of Kenyan Diaspora in Belgium and Luxembourg
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