The African Nutrition Leadership Programme Fré Pepping, PhD

Nutrition, Food Technology, Agrobiotechnology and Health Sciences A cooperative endeavour of four universities: Wageningen, Maastricht, Nijmegen and Utrecht (and five research institutes): VLAG's two major tasks are: to provide its PhD students with a research and education programme of academic excellence to provide added value to its programme by funding research projects and by acquiring external funding for large-scale multidisciplinary research projects See

History-NLP’s st edition of European NLP at this moment 12 th edition going on target group final year PhD’s/young post docs ‘guests’ from LAmerica, Africa, Asia participated and established their own X-NLP (2006 guests from China/Iran)

History ANLP 4 editions 2002 – 2005, 80 participants, good geographical spread Organisation; North West University (RSA) Univ. of Venda (RSA) Wageningen University (NL)

Successful?? Azza Gohar (ANLP 2003) now director of Nutrition institute in Egypt Anna Lartey (ANLP 2002) elected in IUNS Council

Future 5 th edition 1 – 10 November th edition 18 – 28 March 2008 extra (shorter) edition prior to FANUS, Quarzazate, Morocco, 7-9 May

Not yet enough? Asia - Also 4 edition between participants - 50% Indonesia, 10% from Vietnam, Phillipines, Thailand and Malaysia, rest Lao PDR, Iran, Cambodia