The Food Bridge vzw in collaboration with Gemeente Elsene Brussel, BigPicnic Project, FAAB vzw, GC De Platoo and other associations, invites you to the 'Food Talks' event.

The concept of the “ Food Talks” is to use cultural tools for community building in an urban space. Food is one commonality in every society with the ability to convey and reinforce group identity. At the same time, food is flexible enough as a tool of cultural engagement and interaction. This is a feat that is not achievable with politics or religion in the current urban space.

At the event, we invite people to cook together, share a meal, recipes or food stories. Interested participants can bring a dish or bread that is unique to their food culture.

We also have interesting activities for children. This will be an ideal summer fun for families too.

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On the 25th of April 2018 at the Bouchout Castle Meise, 30 selected African Diaspora Entrepreneurs took part in the African Diaspora Agro Food Forum. This event was organized by The Food Bridge vzw in partnership with the BigPicnic Project, Africe Europe Faith and Justice Network, Paepard and the Meise Botanic Garden Belgium.

The participants had insightful discussions about the potentials and challenges for African Entrepreneurs in the Agro Food sector.  The themes discussed in the panels were African Diaspora Food Market, African Diaspora Investment in the agro food sector and scientific innovations for the agro food sector. A full report of the event will be out soon.

Our partners Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs, organized the grand finale of the 2018 African Diaspora Projects Initiative - Sustech4Africa competition. We thank all the African Diasporans who participated in this year's call for projects, bootcamp and training. 

We are happy to announce the winners-

Project of the year is from Zilipa Nyirabyago - a circular economy based social project in Rwanda, supporting rural farmers to grow mushrooms on coffee waste and using the waste from mushrooms as compost for farming.

Oceane Vildeuil of LUM ARTEMISSA is second, with a project supporting local communities in RDC to grow Artemissa for consumption against malaria. She also won the public vote.

Orban de Xivry and his team from Solarly have the third project chosen. Their project supplying green energy to rural communities in Cameroun impressed the judges.

A cross section of the audience (below) at OH business lounge Leuven Belgium