Welcome to 2026! We offer heartfelt best wishes to our partners and  supporters,across Africa, the diaspora and Europe. Thank you for being part of our journey to build fair, resilient and culturally rooted food systems.

Looking Back: 2025, a year of  strong  partnerships and impact: The past year was marked by collaboration and action. Together, we:

• Organized another successful edition of the African Diaspora Agrofood Forum (ADAF25)

• Strengthened cross-cultural exchanges and inter-generational culinary knowledge transfer through Vyakulani Africa II

• Advanced the reach of the collective action on forgotten and underutilized foods, focusing on food security, nutrition, entrepreneurship, economic empowerment and community resilience

• Shared care and support for vulnerable families through the Food Santa initiative

• Amplified community voices through storytelling, workshops and partnerships

Each initiative reaffirmed our belief that food is culture, medicine, livelihood, and a powerful bridge between people..

Looking ahead and working towards more positive impacts: In the year ahead, The Food Bridge vzw will strenghten its strategies and focus on building on last year's momentum by:

• Supporting women and youth-led agrofood entrepreneurs

• Promoting nutritious indigenous foods, food innovations and food as medicine

• Scaling work on forgotten foods and African food culture

• Strengthening Africa–diaspora–global market connections

None of this is possible without you—our partners, advisors, volunteers, funders and community members. Your belief in our mission boosts everything we do.

As we begin this new year, we invite you to continue bridging cultures, continents and communities through food .Here’s to a year of collaboration, nourishment and transformative impact. Happy New Year from all of us at The Food Bridge!

Join Us in 2025

We invite you to be part of our storyin 2026—whether as a partner, supporter, collaborator or advocate. Get involved; Partner with us. Support our work.