Henning Knipschild, biologist by training with expertise on funding, research management, international policies, knowledge management and development cooperation. He works in the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), an institution directly subordinated to the German Government and empowered to conduct business on behalf of the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).

Henning Knipschild has been working in international cooperation most of his work life. He worked as a Project Manager in Knowledge Management within the field of food security and currently works as a funding manager for international agricultural research programmes, as well as a programme manager in digital transformation within the digitisation programme of the German governmental institutions. He has been working in different European-African networks/projects, such as ERA-ARD, LEAP-Agri, LEAP4FNSSA and also in development cooperation in Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Henning Knipschild regularly represents the Ministry BMEL in the FNSSA Working Group.

Plans for the near future: invite FNSSA funders at regular basis to stay in contact keep updated.
Email: Henning.Knipschild@ble.de

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