The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) is the national research council of the Netherlands. NWO funds thousands of top researchers at universities and institutes and steers the course of Dutch science by means of subsidies and research programmes.
NWO promotes quality and innovation in science. Collaborating with SPARK for the first time in 2019, NWO aims to improve smallholder farmer’s crop yields in sub-Saharan Africa through researching crop varieties with resistance to disease and trialing different models of agribusiness seed systems.