• About CVH

    Creating change and positive impact through accessible and relevant digital learning

    CVH is providing you a digital learning experience focused on food system learning opportunities that address critical food and nutrition, climate change and agribusiness skills gaps in emerging markets

About the Community Virtual Hub

Community Virtual Hub is an e-learning platform funded by the European Union, and coordinated by Food Security for Peace and Nutrition Africa. It is Africa's best e-learning platform that offers a diverse range of free online courses tailored to all food system actors. We cater to individuals, as well as groups such as farmer organizations enrolling them in relevant courses.


Our platform provides a variety of free courses covering topics in Food systems (production, processing, distribution and marketing, nutrition & consumption), Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Agricultural Technology and Innovation, Agricultural Finance and Investment, Regional Agricultural Policy, Community Engagement.

Why the 
Community Virtual Hub?

Our Mission

To empower every actor with knowledge needed for a sustainable and resilient food system. Through these courses you gain the skills to improve livelihoods through sustainable and innovative food systems practices.

Our Target Audience

The Community Virtual Hub courses target youth and women actors in the food system, from farmers to consumers. Are you a smallholder farmer in crop, livestock & aquaculture sector, food vendor, processors, agribusiness startup & distributors, our platform has tailored content to help you contribute to a resilient food system as you gain skills to maximize productivity and profitability.

Primary Objective

Our primary objective is to empower all actors across the food system to collaboratively work towards creating a sustainable and resilient food system that aligns with achievement of Sustainable Development Goals.

Who We Work With

At the Community Virtual Hub, we collaborate with over 41 partners globally to develop, co-create, and review our courses, ensuring they are comprehensive, backed by expert knowledge and accredited courses. Our partners come from a diverse range of specialties across the food system, including research and development, community education and empowerment, livestock and fisheries, human nutrition, insect production, food system policies, crop cultivation, and food safety & quality assurance etc. Are you a food system expert? Collaborate with us to co-create and deliver impactful learning experiences.

Our Projects

HealthyDiets4Africa Project

Healthydiets4Africa is an EU funded project focusing on the diversification of the food system to combat the triple burden of malnutrition while minimizing its environmental footprint in eight African countries. Capacity building and community empowerment is a key component of the project activities. Community Virtual Hub will host food safety and quality control courses tailored to all food value chain players in Kenya.

INNOECOFOOD Project

INNOECOFOOD Project is an EU funded project aims to establish innovative production/ business ECOHUBS, living lab cages and improve local aquaculture farms using AI and IoT in six African countries; Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Egypt, Namibia & Ghana. One of the project objectives is to empower youth and women in the selected project area in the countries to enhance sustainable development and employment. Youth and women will be trained on sustainable methods for production, processing, consumption & marketing of fish, spirulina & insects.

Our Courses

Empowering you with Knowledge for a Sustainable Future

Our courses are connected to the following food system components: Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Regional Agricultural Policies, Agricultural Technology and Innovations, Agricultural Finance and Investment, Community Engagement, and Food Systems.

Courses are offered in a variety of formats, including videos, text-based modules, pictorials, interactive sessions with instructors, learner forums, scheduled webinars, and live classes led by our expert instructors. Each course is structured with modules and quizzes, and a digital certificate is awarded upon successful completion.