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Simon Baty – Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN)
Lucy Mather – Knowledge Transfer Network
(KTN)
Pedro Carvalho – Knowledge Transfer Network
(KTN)
Kathryn Miller – Innovation Lead, Innovate UK
Welcome

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Aims of today’s event:
1) Better understand competition objectives, scope and rules
2) Opportunities to develop ideas and partnerships for the competition
- Learn lessons from previously funded projects
- Consortia building session – via meeting mojo and LinkedIn group
Overall – Help you be successful!
Event overview

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1) Questions
Type questions using the chat box on YouTube
Please only ask questions relevant to wider audience - we will answer some during the
event.
If your competition question is not addressed or for private questions, please contact:
support@innovateuk.ukri.org
How to participate today

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2) Meeting Mojo
Please register via https://agritech-catalyst-round10.meeting-mojo.com/ to ensure your
profile is available (you can use your LinkedIn profile if this saves time).
This tool allows you to connect with partners and facilitates introductions and online
conversations.
Please use the Capabilities Document we issued earlier this week, to identify people you
would like to connect with.
How to participate today cont’d

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3) LinkedIn group
Please feel free to register now for this LinkedIn group, as we will use it for consortia
building session (weblink also in the joining instructions email you were
sent): https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8766913/
How to participate today cont’d

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Agri-Tech Catalyst Round 10
Agriculture and food systems innovation: Food Systems and Nutrition

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Innovate UK

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We work with the government
to invest over £7 billion a year
in research and innovation by
partnering with academia and
industry to make the impossible,
possible. Through the UK’s nine
leading academic and industrial
funding councils, we create
knowledge with impact.

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Innovate UK drives productivity and
growth by supporting businesses to realise
the potential of new technologies, develop
ideas and make them a commercial
success.
Innovate UK
To stay competitive as an advanced
economy, we need to do things that
others cannot do, or to do things in
different and better ways.

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Competition scope

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Agri-Tech Strategy
• Launched 22 July 2013
• Aims to improve the translation of research
into practical application for agriculture and
related industries in UK and overseas
• £160M government investment over 5yrs:
• Agri-tech Catalyst (£70m)
• Centres for Agricultural Innovation (£90m) –
Agri-Tech Centres

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AgriTech Catalyst
• DFID has provided funding for the AgriTech
Catalyst since it was launched in 2013
• 58 projects over eight rounds, 53 of those in
Africa
• Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,
Nepal, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania,
Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• Since Round 7 the AgriTech Catalyst has been
focussed on Africa
• Round 10 funded through the GCRF
Photo Credit: CABI

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AgriTech Catalyst
Value addition Food safety
Non food uses of crops
Control of crop pests
Improving productivity Livestock disease Control of crop disease
Reducing food losses

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• £10m investment to support competitions including rounds 7 onwards
• £15m additional funding through GCRF from round 8 onwards
Timeline:
₋ Round 9 – 14 October 2019 – 8 January 2020
₋ Round 10 – 20 July – 21 October 2020 (this competition)
₋ Round 11 – To be confirmed, provisional open date March 2021
Latest funding available

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Key dates
Timeline Dates
Competition Open date 20th July 2020
Online Theme Specific Brokerage Events
9th July 2020
• Crop
• Livestock & Aquaculture
• Food Systems and Nutrition
Online Competition Briefing 28th July 2020
Submission Deadline 21st October 2020 – 11am
Applicants informed 18th December 2020
Projects to start April 2021

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- Projects must show the potential to deliver impact for poor people through the
uptake of agricultural and food systems technology and innovation
- Scope of the Catalyst includes:
- primary crop and livestock production including aquaculture
- non-food uses of crops, excluding ornamentals
- challenges in downstream food processing, distribution or storage and value
addition
- Improving availability and accessibility of safe, healthy and nutritious foods
- Your project’s innovations must:
- be sustainable in the context of environmental challenges such as climate
change and resource scarcity
- minimise negative effects such as pollution, food losses and waste
Agri-Tech Catalyst Round 10:
Scope

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Areas of interest
Livestock
• genetic improvement for productivity/disease resistance
• development and access to livestock vaccines and medicines
• control of livestock pests and diseases including penside
diagnostics
• increasing the value of production to smallholders
Crops
• speeding up the development of new varieties for current and future
conditions.
• reducing post harvest loss on farm and through the value chain
• control of crop pests, weeds and diseases
• increasing the value of production to smallholder
Food Systems
• downstream food processing,
distribution or storage and value
addition
• innovation that supports food
systems to deliver nutritious,
healthy and safe food
• meeting quality standards and
improving productivity
• addressing food safety issues
through the value chain
• new food technologies and data-
driven food systems, including for
urban areas
• Cross-cutting issues:
big data, AI, providing information to farmers, integrating smallholders into supply chains

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Official Development Assistance
and Research
- Official Development Assistance (ODA) is defined as flows to countries and territories
on the DAC List of ODA Recipients
- Only research directly and primarily relevant to the problems of developing countries
may be counted as ODA
- Applications must clearly demonstrate that they propose work that will benefit
agriculture and food systems in Africa and how they will deliver this benefit.
- During the lifetime of a project, it may not impact large numbers of people, but
proposals must show how a project will build a pathway to future development impact.
- There can be benefits to the UK – companies/researchers – but this must be secondary
in nature.
- Activities in the UK must clearly be for challenges in Africa, not for the UK market.

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Eligibility Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria
Project Eligibility
• must be collaborative
• must include a partner from an eligible African country, who can be the technical
lead
• must include a UK-based administrative lead
• must be carried out in the UK or an eligible African country or both
• must include at least one business in the consortium
Project costs
• Early stage feasibility studies: £100,000 to £500,000, 12 to 18 months.
• Mid stage industrial research: £250,000 to £1 million, up to 3 years.
• Late stage experimental development: £150,000 to £800,000, up to 18 months.
Projects must start by 1 April 2021

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Angola
Benin
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African
Republic
Chad
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo, Democratic
Republic of
Côte d'Ivoire
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gambia, The
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mozambique
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Eligible Countries

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For Early Stage feasibility studies and industrial research awards, you
could get up to:
• 70% of eligible project costs for micro or small business
• 60% for medium-sized business
• 50% for large business
For experimental development projects which are nearer to market, you
could get up to:
• 45% of eligible project costs for micro or small business
• 35% for medium-sized business
• 25% for large business
Grant intervention rates for business

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• For early-stage feasibility studies and mid stage industrial research
projects the total costs for your research partners must not exceed 50%
of the total project costs
• If your consortium contains more than one research organisation, this
maximum will be shared between them
• For late stage experimental development projects: research base
partners cannot claim funding but can participate as subcontractors.
• Universities can claim 100% (80% of Full Economic Costs)
• Other research organisations can claim 100% of their project costs
• Public Sector Organisation or Charity can claim 100% of their project
costs
Research partner participation rules

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Application Process

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Search for a funding competition and review
criteria

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• Project Summary
• Short summary and objectives of the project including what is innovative about it
• Public Description
• Description of your project which will be published if you are successful
• Scope
• How does your project align with the scope of this competition?
• If your project is not in scope, it will be ineligible for funding
Q1 – Equality, Diversity and Inclusion data – EDI survey
Q2 – Consortium – List all organisations in your project
Project Details – not scored

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Application Questions
Application form
Question 3 Business opportunity
Question 4 Market opportunity
Question 5 Project results
Question 6 Official development assistance (ODA)
Question 7 International development (gender equality)
act
Question 8 Technical approach
Question 9 Innovation
Question 10 Risk
Question 11 Project team
Question 12 Financial commitment
Question 13 Added value
Appendix Q8
Appendix Q11
Appendix Q10
Appendix Q6
Detailed Guidance
Available on IFS

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To find out more about the Agri-Tech Catalyst, including the competition brief:
Early stage: https://apply-for-innovation-
funding.service.gov.uk/competition/659/overview#summary
Mid stage: https://apply-for-innovation-
funding.service.gov.uk/competition/661/overview
Late stage: https://apply-for-innovation-
funding.service.gov.uk/competition/660/overview
Further Information

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Customer Support Services:
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support@innovateuk.ukri.org
Knowledge Transfer Network: www.ktn-uk.co.uk
Innovate UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk
Contact Us

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@InnovateUK Innovate UKInnovate UK

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Agri-Tech Catalyst Round 10
Agriculture and food systems innovation: Food Systems and Nutrition Webinar
Case Study

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10/07/2020
High Protein Shelf Stable Expanded Snacks: Based on
Arthropods and Local Carbohydrate Sources
Agri-tech Catalyst round 8: agriculture and food systems innovation
Number 105674

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10/07/2020
Why this project and why now?
Global View
• Sustainable agriculture
• Income generation to rural
communities
• Economically viable foods for
urban poor
• Stable foodstuffs for nutritionally
challenged
• Better utilisation of protein
sources
Consortium IP
Using interesting, but not necessary very
expensive processing procedures we could
make:
• Product a bit like a rice cake
• Can use a range of starchy materials as a
base
• Can get over 40% protein into product
• Crispy to eat
• Easy and safe storage
?

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10/07/2020
Use of insects
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations proposed a global
initiative to increase use of insects as food and feed to ensure future food security
Insect consumption promoted for three major
reasons:
vnutritional value
venvironmental benefits
vlivelihood improvement (social and
economic factors)
If insects can be used with minimum processing
the higher the utilisation criteria

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10/07/2020
Product as a vehicle for insect consumption
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Product Specification:
Use of whole insect- sustainable resource
Minimum process- but must be safe
Form a product that is easy to store, provide major
nutritive benefits
Can be eaten without further heating

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10/07/2020
Defining project
Feasibility study: High Protein Shelf Stable Expanded Snacks: Based on
Arthropods and Local Carbohydrate Sources (18 months)
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Grow the
starchy
materials
Breed insects
Process
together
Locally sourced materials
local product
snacks –high
value
product for the
nutritionally
challenged
Total food product
Sustainable and safe
Started November 2019

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10/07/2020
The consortium
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Biopolymer Solutions Ltd; SME –interest in starchy materials and processing
Sandra Hill, Anne Clothilde Guyot, Val Street
Real World Business Solutions Ltd; SME -fast experience of
processing and how business works
John Beech
University of Nottingham; Division of Food, Nutrition and
Dietetics. Protein / insect expertise and conscience of the group
Jo Gould
Federal Polytechnic Oko; Department of Food Technology,
Networked across Anambra State
Mary Okpala
Jo
Mary
me

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Work packages
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Management6Choose
some
materials
Chemically
and
functionally
assess the
materials
Make
Product
prototypes Assess
prototypes
How can this be made
commercially viable?

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10/07/2020
Milestone One:
Choice of materials and
their supply
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Starchy material ready
to be sent to UK
Target starch materials:
Maize
Cassava
Millet
Sorghum
Bambara
Pigeon pea
Cowpea
Target insects:
Palm weevil
Grass Hopper
Cricket

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10/07/2020
Review : Check : Standardise : Plan
Keeping going
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• Regular meeting at the same time each week
• An agenda for each meeting
• List of action points for each meeting
q Understand and establish what we need for a
supply chain for insects
q Design and commission modifications to
capital equipment to ease its use for making
the product
q Create a knowledge base of food products,
both in Nigeria and UK/EU
q Build our contacts

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Review and understand Insect farming in
a controlled environment
EXTINCTION
ALLERGENICITY
MICROBIOLOGICAL
SAFETYANTI-NUTRIENTS
ATAXIC SYNDROME
PESTICIDES /
INSECTICIDES
HEAVY METALS
……..depends on insect species, diet and habitat10
Safety aspects
Known traceable supply chain
Consistent quality
Predictable supply
Scaleable operations
Known and controlled:
environmental impact
threats to local fauna and flora

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10/07/2020
Local knowledge of Palm weevil collection
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Palm weevil collection is interwoven with palm wine farming
The dead/wounded raffia palm tree are the natural habitat of palm weevil

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10/07/2020
Preparing for creation of our own
cricket farm
with the help of Dr Ikechukwu Onah (University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) in Enugu State )
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1. Check on availability of farmed insects for human
consumption
2. Major review of what were best choices for the
exemplar farm
3. Agreements for costs and objectives
4. Creation of HACCP plan for insect supply

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10/07/2020
Review : Check : Standardise : Plan
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q Understand and establish what we need for a
supply chain for insects
q Design and commission modifications to
capital equipment to ease its use for making
the product
q Create a knowledge base of food products,
both in Nigeria and UK/EU
q Build our contacts
q Plan the prototypes
q Devise consumer testing
Is it safe,
is it sustainable,
is it sensible?