3rd Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance Forum
Implementing Climate-smart village (CSV) approach in West
Africa : Key achievements & lessons learned for CSA
upscaling
Presentation given by Dr. Mathieu Ouédraogo, CCAFS West Africa
The climate-smart village : a model developed by CCAFS program to improve the adaptive capacity of communities
Presented by Dr Robert Zougmoré, Regional Program Leader, CCAFS West Africa. Africa Agriculture Science Week 6, 15 July 2013, Accra, Ghana. http://ccafs.cgiar.org/events/15/jul/2013/africa-agriculture-science-week-2013
What practical steps can smallholder farmers take to adapt their agricultural practices to secure dependable food supplies and livelihoods? And can they do this while also decreasing greenhouse gas emissions or increasing carbon sequestration, thereby decreasing future climate change?
This is a poster displaying the various climate-smart innovations that have been adopted by farmers in the Nyando climate-smart villages in Western Kenya.
This document describes the climate-smart village model developed by CCAFS to improve smallholder farmers' ability to adapt to climate change. The model involves testing integrated agricultural interventions at learning sites with local communities and stakeholders. The goal is to boost farmers' resilience while improving livelihoods and reducing emissions where possible. Key activities include climate-resilient crops, insurance, climate information services, and local adaptation plans. The research evaluates improved practices and their gender impacts. The model is then scaled up through policy, the private sector, and major initiatives to mainstream successful approaches.
1. The document discusses climate-smart villages (CSVs), which aim to integrate technologies, practices, and services to address adoption barriers and farmer needs regarding climate change adaptation and mitigation.
2. It seeks to define a common vision for CSVs, reflect on lessons learned, identify opportunities for harmonizing methodologies, and respond to external evaluation recommendations for CSV projects.
3. The approach taken with CSVs uses a participatory method to understand adoption barriers, examines technologies within a broader ecosystem of approaches, and builds evidence for scaling up solutions while leveraging climate finance and services.
1. Climate-smart villages aim to provide integrated solutions that lead to higher incomes, resilience, adaptation, and mitigation through farmer participatory approaches.
2. Progress has been made in establishing climate-smart villages in South Asia, growing from 200 villages in 2011-2012 to over 1800 villages by the end of 2016.
3. Key considerations for climate-smart villages include addressing current climate variability and future climate change impacts, ensuring social inclusiveness, and developing robust evidence and business models for scaling out climate-smart solutions.
The climate-smart village : a model developed by CCAFS program to improve the adaptive capacity of communities
Presented by Dr Robert Zougmoré, Regional Program Leader, CCAFS West Africa. Africa Agriculture Science Week 6, 15 July 2013, Accra, Ghana. http://ccafs.cgiar.org/events/15/jul/2013/africa-agriculture-science-week-2013
What practical steps can smallholder farmers take to adapt their agricultural practices to secure dependable food supplies and livelihoods? And can they do this while also decreasing greenhouse gas emissions or increasing carbon sequestration, thereby decreasing future climate change?
This is a poster displaying the various climate-smart innovations that have been adopted by farmers in the Nyando climate-smart villages in Western Kenya.
This document describes the climate-smart village model developed by CCAFS to improve smallholder farmers' ability to adapt to climate change. The model involves testing integrated agricultural interventions at learning sites with local communities and stakeholders. The goal is to boost farmers' resilience while improving livelihoods and reducing emissions where possible. Key activities include climate-resilient crops, insurance, climate information services, and local adaptation plans. The research evaluates improved practices and their gender impacts. The model is then scaled up through policy, the private sector, and major initiatives to mainstream successful approaches.
1. The document discusses climate-smart villages (CSVs), which aim to integrate technologies, practices, and services to address adoption barriers and farmer needs regarding climate change adaptation and mitigation.
2. It seeks to define a common vision for CSVs, reflect on lessons learned, identify opportunities for harmonizing methodologies, and respond to external evaluation recommendations for CSV projects.
3. The approach taken with CSVs uses a participatory method to understand adoption barriers, examines technologies within a broader ecosystem of approaches, and builds evidence for scaling up solutions while leveraging climate finance and services.
1. Climate-smart villages aim to provide integrated solutions that lead to higher incomes, resilience, adaptation, and mitigation through farmer participatory approaches.
2. Progress has been made in establishing climate-smart villages in South Asia, growing from 200 villages in 2011-2012 to over 1800 villages by the end of 2016.
3. Key considerations for climate-smart villages include addressing current climate variability and future climate change impacts, ensuring social inclusiveness, and developing robust evidence and business models for scaling out climate-smart solutions.
Presented by Dr Abdoulaye Saley Moussa, Science Officer, CCAFS West Africa. Africa Agriculture Science Week 6, 15 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
http://ccafs.cgiar.org/events/15/jul/2013/africa-agriculture-science-week-2013
10 May 2021. Regenerative Agriculture vs. Agroecology: nomenclature hype or principle divergence?
(a) A decade of CSA: what are the achievements, the challenges and the bottlenecks? (b) What practical implications for smallholder farmers, agriculture and the environment?
Presentation by Bruce Campbell - Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
This document discusses strategies for creating "smart villages" through the use of innovative technologies. It outlines plans to empower communities to make smart decisions using communication technologies and by sharing best practices. It also discusses monitoring climate and agriculture through sensors, apps, and information services related to weather, water, crops and markets. The goal is to build capacity, facilitate learning, and help communities adapt to climate change through localized solutions.
What practical steps can smallholder farmers take to adapt their agriculture to secure the food supply? And might those mitigate emissions? In a search for answers the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is working with a vast range of partners to test an assortment of interventions in ‘climate-smart villages’. http://ccafs.cgiar.org/climate-smart-villages
Seoul | Jun-15 | Smart Villages Agenda & ConceptSmart Villages
Given by: Dr Terry van Gevelt
Our Seoul media workshop was a two-day residential event featuring a combination of background briefings from local and international experts and entrepreneurs on energy markets and developments in the South East Asian off-grid sector. The workshop offered an opportunity to explore the Smart Villages concept and study nascent Smart Village projects and relevant technologies from around the world.
This document outlines a vision for "Smart Villages" that empower communities through innovative technologies and information sharing. It proposes several stages: (1) knowledge sharing about what can be done; (2) using big data, AI, and decision support systems to determine what should be done. It then lists various proposed technologies and initiatives for smart villages, including tools for climate-smart agriculture, online education, apps to connect farmers and markets, water monitoring sensors, renewable energy solutions, and telemedicine. The overall goal is to build self-sufficient communities through access to information, communications, and smart technologies.
Anticipating impacts on smallholder farmers, fishers and pastoralists, and how to engage in the UNFCCC? 
Presentation by James Kinyangi, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), at the 21 October 2015 Webinar on Agriculture in the UNFCCC Negotiations . Watch: https://youtu.be/1Qo9ZQNjsCs
This two-hour webinar provided an overview of where and how agriculture is positioned in the UNFCCC climate negotiations, and it presents a series of resources for advocates and communicators to engage meaningfully in the UNFCCC process. It was aimed at climate change negotiators, their technical advisors and any agricultural organisation interested in food security and climate change.
The Smart Village project aims to develop a mobile phone application to provide smallholder farmers access to skills, information, markets, financing, and energy. This will help eradicate poverty and increase food security for the estimated 2 billion small farmers worldwide who supply 80% of global food but lack modern resources. The application connects various agricultural partners through a private-public-community partnership model. The goals are to have 1.2 million users in Zimbabwe within 2 years and 6 million subscribers across 4 African countries within 5 years, generating revenue through subscriptions, advertising, and commissions. A core team of 4 will oversee application development, business development, finance, and community partnerships.
Hyderabad | Sep-16 | What is a Smart Village?Smart Villages
This document discusses the Smart Villages Initiative, which aims to improve access to key services like education, healthcare, clean water, and renewable energy in rural villages. It does this by promoting connectivity through information and communication technologies, fostering entrepreneurship, and enabling participation in governance. The initiative is a partnership between universities in Cambridge and Oxford, and focuses on identifying policies and frameworks to support sustainable energy solutions and maximize social and economic benefits in rural communities. It has held numerous workshops in regions around the world to engage local stakeholders on overcoming barriers to energy access and development.
This document summarizes DAI's work on climate-smart agriculture projects. It discusses DAI's mission to improve people's lives through development work. It then outlines several of DAI's flagship projects that incorporate climate-smart agriculture programming, including projects in Central America, Kenya, Indonesia, and the Pacific region. The document discusses how climate change impacts agriculture through changing weather patterns. It presents a framework for assessing farm system stability and identifying factors that stabilize or destabilize systems. Finally, it introduces a Farm-Level Climate Smart Agriculture Assessment Tool that DAI is developing and seeking feedback on through further piloting.
Analytical Tools To Assist Climate-Smart Agriculture Policy MakingCGIAR
Presented by Mark W. Rosegrant at GFIA 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI
Mark highlighted that CSA forces us to shifts the emphasis from policies that aim at a single targets to policies that have multiple objectives. He went on to underline that CSA changes the planning time horizon - policies and analyses necessarily span long time periods of 20-30 years. And that therefore CSA requires the use of integrated modeling frameworks that work at multiple geographical scales. And that given its complexity, importantly, CSA requires an even closer collaboration between policy makers and research community.
Arusha | Jun-14 | John Holmes Smart Villages IntroductionSmart Villages
The document discusses the SmartVillages concept and initiative. It makes the following key points:
1. Over 1 billion people lack access to electricity, mainly in rural communities, and 3 billion rely on traditional fuels that cause indoor air pollution. The SmartVillages initiative aims to provide universal access to electricity by 2030 through mini-grids and home-based solutions.
2. Access to sustainable energy can catalyze development by enabling education, local businesses, health, welfare, food security, and democratic engagement.
3. The SmartVillages initiative is a partnership between science academies, expert organizations, and others to address rural energy challenges through workshops, policy advice, and identifying barriers and solutions.
4. Upcoming
Developing Climate-Smart village models through integrated participatory acti...ICRISAT
Climate-smart villages are evolving in five West African countries from Senegal to Niger thanks to integrated participatory action research aimed at protecting food security. Climate change creates new challenges for food security in the region. To overcome these threats, the CGIAR research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) developed among other tools and approaches, the Climate Smart Village (CSV) as a model for local action research to achieve food security, enhance livelihood, and improve environmental management, i.e., Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA).
CCAFS Country Programs and Partnerships to Deliver ResultsCGIAR
Presented by James Kinyangi at GFIA 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
CCAFS Regional Program Leader - East Africa
With Patric Brandt, Marko Kvakic, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl and Mariana Rufino.
James spoke on the Kenyan example of ‘targetCSA’- a decision support tool to target Climate-Smart Agriculture investments. The take homes from the presentation focused on: Problem structuring & complexity reduction; Spatial indices built on consensus & evidence; Transferability & flexibility. View the full presentation here
This document outlines the research component of the Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Farming Systems in Zambia (SIFAZ) project. The project will conduct adaptive research on sustainable intensification practices to increase yields without environmental degradation. It will focus on agronomic practices like diversification, cover crops, and climate-smart combinations. It will also research mechanization to reduce labor demands and promote youth employment. Socio-economic research will analyze adoption patterns, gender impacts, and approaches for promoting technologies. The project aims to work with partners to conduct integrated biophysical and socio-economic research and promote scaling of sustainable intensification practices to smallholders in Zambia.
An introduction to Africa RISING phase 2 Program-wide approachesafrica-rising
This document discusses approaches for the second phase of the Africa RISING program to maximize synergies and impact across projects. It outlines plans to establish common indicator frameworks, typologies for tailoring research, program-wide analyses, communities of practice for experts, coordinated capacity development strategies, and improved communication to enhance scaling and knowledge sharing. The goal is to better harmonize approaches while allowing for regional differences through increased collaboration.
The document discusses Madagascar's environment, socioeconomics, food security, and subnational integration. It describes the process of diagnosing Madagascar's food system with stakeholders from government, private sector, and civil society. Participants adapted to online consultations during COVID. The exercise revealed a growing consensus for a systems approach and advice on challenges like malnutrition and natural resource overuse. Lessons will inform ongoing programming and sharing with technical partners.
The document discusses challenges facing African agriculture such as population growth, poverty, climate change, and policies. It outlines Africa's development agenda through programs like CAADP which aim to increase food supply and reduce hunger. The CIAT Africa strategy aims to contribute to addressing complex problems in Africa through research where CIAT has comparative advantages. Through the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA), CIAT and other partners work collaboratively on projects focused on bean variety improvement, disease resistance, and nutrition to benefit small-scale farmers and improve food security.
The document discusses three new regional initiatives by IITA in West Africa:
1. The Cotonou Center for climate change and biotic stresses, a regional center in Benin for research and training.
2. IITA's Youth Agripreneurs program to train young graduates in entrepreneurial agriculture.
3. IITA's Business Incubation Platform (BIP) which helps transition research products like seed, inoculants, and biocontrol agents to the private sector.
Presented by Dr Abdoulaye Saley Moussa, Science Officer, CCAFS West Africa. Africa Agriculture Science Week 6, 15 July 2013, Accra, Ghana
http://ccafs.cgiar.org/events/15/jul/2013/africa-agriculture-science-week-2013
10 May 2021. Regenerative Agriculture vs. Agroecology: nomenclature hype or principle divergence?
(a) A decade of CSA: what are the achievements, the challenges and the bottlenecks? (b) What practical implications for smallholder farmers, agriculture and the environment?
Presentation by Bruce Campbell - Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
This document discusses strategies for creating "smart villages" through the use of innovative technologies. It outlines plans to empower communities to make smart decisions using communication technologies and by sharing best practices. It also discusses monitoring climate and agriculture through sensors, apps, and information services related to weather, water, crops and markets. The goal is to build capacity, facilitate learning, and help communities adapt to climate change through localized solutions.
What practical steps can smallholder farmers take to adapt their agriculture to secure the food supply? And might those mitigate emissions? In a search for answers the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is working with a vast range of partners to test an assortment of interventions in ‘climate-smart villages’. http://ccafs.cgiar.org/climate-smart-villages
Seoul | Jun-15 | Smart Villages Agenda & ConceptSmart Villages
Given by: Dr Terry van Gevelt
Our Seoul media workshop was a two-day residential event featuring a combination of background briefings from local and international experts and entrepreneurs on energy markets and developments in the South East Asian off-grid sector. The workshop offered an opportunity to explore the Smart Villages concept and study nascent Smart Village projects and relevant technologies from around the world.
This document outlines a vision for "Smart Villages" that empower communities through innovative technologies and information sharing. It proposes several stages: (1) knowledge sharing about what can be done; (2) using big data, AI, and decision support systems to determine what should be done. It then lists various proposed technologies and initiatives for smart villages, including tools for climate-smart agriculture, online education, apps to connect farmers and markets, water monitoring sensors, renewable energy solutions, and telemedicine. The overall goal is to build self-sufficient communities through access to information, communications, and smart technologies.
Anticipating impacts on smallholder farmers, fishers and pastoralists, and how to engage in the UNFCCC? 
Presentation by James Kinyangi, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), at the 21 October 2015 Webinar on Agriculture in the UNFCCC Negotiations . Watch: https://youtu.be/1Qo9ZQNjsCs
This two-hour webinar provided an overview of where and how agriculture is positioned in the UNFCCC climate negotiations, and it presents a series of resources for advocates and communicators to engage meaningfully in the UNFCCC process. It was aimed at climate change negotiators, their technical advisors and any agricultural organisation interested in food security and climate change.
The Smart Village project aims to develop a mobile phone application to provide smallholder farmers access to skills, information, markets, financing, and energy. This will help eradicate poverty and increase food security for the estimated 2 billion small farmers worldwide who supply 80% of global food but lack modern resources. The application connects various agricultural partners through a private-public-community partnership model. The goals are to have 1.2 million users in Zimbabwe within 2 years and 6 million subscribers across 4 African countries within 5 years, generating revenue through subscriptions, advertising, and commissions. A core team of 4 will oversee application development, business development, finance, and community partnerships.
Hyderabad | Sep-16 | What is a Smart Village?Smart Villages
This document discusses the Smart Villages Initiative, which aims to improve access to key services like education, healthcare, clean water, and renewable energy in rural villages. It does this by promoting connectivity through information and communication technologies, fostering entrepreneurship, and enabling participation in governance. The initiative is a partnership between universities in Cambridge and Oxford, and focuses on identifying policies and frameworks to support sustainable energy solutions and maximize social and economic benefits in rural communities. It has held numerous workshops in regions around the world to engage local stakeholders on overcoming barriers to energy access and development.
This document summarizes DAI's work on climate-smart agriculture projects. It discusses DAI's mission to improve people's lives through development work. It then outlines several of DAI's flagship projects that incorporate climate-smart agriculture programming, including projects in Central America, Kenya, Indonesia, and the Pacific region. The document discusses how climate change impacts agriculture through changing weather patterns. It presents a framework for assessing farm system stability and identifying factors that stabilize or destabilize systems. Finally, it introduces a Farm-Level Climate Smart Agriculture Assessment Tool that DAI is developing and seeking feedback on through further piloting.
Analytical Tools To Assist Climate-Smart Agriculture Policy MakingCGIAR
Presented by Mark W. Rosegrant at GFIA 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI
Mark highlighted that CSA forces us to shifts the emphasis from policies that aim at a single targets to policies that have multiple objectives. He went on to underline that CSA changes the planning time horizon - policies and analyses necessarily span long time periods of 20-30 years. And that therefore CSA requires the use of integrated modeling frameworks that work at multiple geographical scales. And that given its complexity, importantly, CSA requires an even closer collaboration between policy makers and research community.
Arusha | Jun-14 | John Holmes Smart Villages IntroductionSmart Villages
The document discusses the SmartVillages concept and initiative. It makes the following key points:
1. Over 1 billion people lack access to electricity, mainly in rural communities, and 3 billion rely on traditional fuels that cause indoor air pollution. The SmartVillages initiative aims to provide universal access to electricity by 2030 through mini-grids and home-based solutions.
2. Access to sustainable energy can catalyze development by enabling education, local businesses, health, welfare, food security, and democratic engagement.
3. The SmartVillages initiative is a partnership between science academies, expert organizations, and others to address rural energy challenges through workshops, policy advice, and identifying barriers and solutions.
4. Upcoming
Developing Climate-Smart village models through integrated participatory acti...ICRISAT
Climate-smart villages are evolving in five West African countries from Senegal to Niger thanks to integrated participatory action research aimed at protecting food security. Climate change creates new challenges for food security in the region. To overcome these threats, the CGIAR research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) developed among other tools and approaches, the Climate Smart Village (CSV) as a model for local action research to achieve food security, enhance livelihood, and improve environmental management, i.e., Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA).
CCAFS Country Programs and Partnerships to Deliver ResultsCGIAR
Presented by James Kinyangi at GFIA 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
CCAFS Regional Program Leader - East Africa
With Patric Brandt, Marko Kvakic, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl and Mariana Rufino.
James spoke on the Kenyan example of ‘targetCSA’- a decision support tool to target Climate-Smart Agriculture investments. The take homes from the presentation focused on: Problem structuring & complexity reduction; Spatial indices built on consensus & evidence; Transferability & flexibility. View the full presentation here
This document outlines the research component of the Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Farming Systems in Zambia (SIFAZ) project. The project will conduct adaptive research on sustainable intensification practices to increase yields without environmental degradation. It will focus on agronomic practices like diversification, cover crops, and climate-smart combinations. It will also research mechanization to reduce labor demands and promote youth employment. Socio-economic research will analyze adoption patterns, gender impacts, and approaches for promoting technologies. The project aims to work with partners to conduct integrated biophysical and socio-economic research and promote scaling of sustainable intensification practices to smallholders in Zambia.
An introduction to Africa RISING phase 2 Program-wide approachesafrica-rising
This document discusses approaches for the second phase of the Africa RISING program to maximize synergies and impact across projects. It outlines plans to establish common indicator frameworks, typologies for tailoring research, program-wide analyses, communities of practice for experts, coordinated capacity development strategies, and improved communication to enhance scaling and knowledge sharing. The goal is to better harmonize approaches while allowing for regional differences through increased collaboration.
The document discusses Madagascar's environment, socioeconomics, food security, and subnational integration. It describes the process of diagnosing Madagascar's food system with stakeholders from government, private sector, and civil society. Participants adapted to online consultations during COVID. The exercise revealed a growing consensus for a systems approach and advice on challenges like malnutrition and natural resource overuse. Lessons will inform ongoing programming and sharing with technical partners.
The document discusses challenges facing African agriculture such as population growth, poverty, climate change, and policies. It outlines Africa's development agenda through programs like CAADP which aim to increase food supply and reduce hunger. The CIAT Africa strategy aims to contribute to addressing complex problems in Africa through research where CIAT has comparative advantages. Through the Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA), CIAT and other partners work collaboratively on projects focused on bean variety improvement, disease resistance, and nutrition to benefit small-scale farmers and improve food security.
The document discusses three new regional initiatives by IITA in West Africa:
1. The Cotonou Center for climate change and biotic stresses, a regional center in Benin for research and training.
2. IITA's Youth Agripreneurs program to train young graduates in entrepreneurial agriculture.
3. IITA's Business Incubation Platform (BIP) which helps transition research products like seed, inoculants, and biocontrol agents to the private sector.
The climate-smart village : a model developed by CCAFS program to improve the adaptive capacity of communities
Presented by Dr Jules Bayala, World Agroforestry Centre at Africa Agriculture Science Week 6, 15 July 2013, Accra, Ghana. http://ccafs.cgiar.org/events/15/jul/2013/africa-agriculture-science-week-2013
This document summarizes the challenges of food security and climate change in Africa and introduces conservation agriculture as a solution. It discusses two projects - CA SARD and SCAP - that have promoted conservation agriculture to smallholder farmers in East and West Africa. It outlines the principles and techniques of conservation agriculture being taught, and summarizes the achievements and lessons learned, including increased yields and food security, reduced labor, and farmer adoption of the practices. Challenges and the need to further scale up conservation agriculture in Africa are also discussed.
Buruchara - Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D): An Appr...CIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
Developing climate-smart village models through integrated participatory acti...ICRISAT
In West Africa, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change,Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has been working since 2011 with various local partners to develop Climate-Smart Village (CSV) models in its pilot sites in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Senegal. The CSV models is an approach where CCAFS in partnership with rural communities and other stakeholders (NARS, NGOs, local authorities, …), tests & validates in an integrated manner, several agricultural interventions. The idea is to integrate Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) into village development plans, using local knowledge and expertise and supported by local institutions.
The document summarizes the PAEPARD II program, which aims to build more equitable and demand-driven partnerships between African and European stakeholders in agricultural research for development. It discusses problems with previous approaches and solutions PAEPARD II will bring, such as more inclusive partnerships across sectors and countries. The objectives are outlined, and achievements so far include multi-stakeholder consultations and launching partnership calls. Selected consortia covering topics like livestock, aquaculture, and aflatoxins are presented for different African regions. Progress updates are provided for partnerships utilizing a new user-led process to identify research priorities.
The document summarizes the achievements and perspectives of the SARD-SC rice value chain project in Africa. The project has:
1) Tested over 50 agricultural innovations to address rice production constraints and close yield gaps across Africa. This includes weeders, seeders, decision support tools, and improved rice processing technologies.
2) Disseminated improved technologies and best practices through rice sector hubs, reaching over 250,000 farmers. This has increased yields, incomes, and market access for smallholders.
3) Built the capacity of over 450 African researchers and stakeholders through training programs. This has strengthened national agricultural research and innovation systems.
4) Effectively managed project implementation through monitoring and evaluation
ICRISAT 2013 activities: Dryland Systems CRPafrica-rising
1. ICRISAT conducted various activities in 2013 related to the Dryland Systems CRP including collecting baseline household and farm data, mapping resources, testing intensification options, and building capacity.
2. Data collection involved household surveys, yield mapping, and full biomass assessments to understand current practices and variability.
3. Testing of options included ISFM trials of varieties, dual-purpose crops, and water management techniques.
4. Capacity building activities included developing gender-smart media tools, training curricula, and disseminating information through forums.
5. Plans for 2014 include leveraging results, improving integrated assessment models and decision tools, and strengthening multi-stakeholder engagement platforms.
The document discusses conservation agriculture (CA) in Africa and the work of the African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT) to promote CA. It provides an overview of ACT as an organization, outlines the principles of CA (minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil cover, crop rotations), and describes various projects and partnerships ACT has used to disseminate CA practices to farmers across Africa. Challenges to adopting CA include managing crop residues and cover crops, weed control during the transition to CA, and compacted soil layers left by previous tillage practices.
The document describes processes for developing investment proposals to scale climate-smart agriculture (CSA) innovations in Southern Africa. It discusses conducting climate risk assessments, piloting CSA practices, prioritizing best practices, developing feasibility studies, and creating investment proposals. Several investment proposals have been developed on maize-legume systems, sorghum production, and livestock value chains. The process builds evidence, capacity, and teams to independently develop future proposals. Knowledge is shared through online platforms.
Initiating sustainable agricultural systems through CA in Mozambique: prelimi...Joanna Hicks
The document summarizes preliminary experiences from implementing conservation agriculture trials in Mozambique through the Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Systems for Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA) initiative. Key findings from the first season include:
1) Trials were established in 6 communities across 3 provinces with varying levels of success. Implementation challenges included lack of crop residues, termite infestation, and weed management issues.
2) Farmer selection, gender participation, and functionality of research committees differed across sites. Lessons from the first season will inform improving gender inclusion and community engagement.
3) Extension support quality impacted trial outcomes. Better training and resources for extension agents are
Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume Cropping Systems for Food Securit...FMNR Hub
SIMLESA is a project aimed at sustainably intensifying maize and legume production in Eastern and Southern Africa through conservation agriculture practices and improved varieties. Over its first 5 years, SIMLESA worked with national agricultural research partners in 5 countries to test promising cropping systems, increase the availability of improved seeds, and build regional innovation systems. Key lessons included the need to link smallholder farms to domestic and international value chains, engage agribusiness, and integrate value chain, technology, capacity building and policy work through innovation platforms. Sustainable intensification requires systems research, innovation systems bridging research and scaling, attention to policies and partnerships, and strong monitoring and evaluation of impact.
Presentation by Silvanus Mruma about the peculiarities of NAFAKA phase II project. This presentation was made at the the annual review and planning meeting for the Africa RISING - NAFAKA project on 26 - 27 June 2018.
Planning, implementing and evaluating Climate-Smart Agriculture in smallholde...FAO
http://www.fao.org/in-action/micca/
This presentation by Janie Rioux, FAO, outlines the experience of the Mitigation of Climate Change in Agriculture (MICCA) pilot projects in Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania.
Coherence between research projects and Agricultural research policies in We...Francois Stepman
6 to 8 August 2014. Yaounde. Regional consultation between farmers organisations, and research actors in Central Africa: "Agricultural Research for development and capacity building of stakeholders."
Organized by the Sub-Regional Platform of Farmers Organizations of Central Africa (PROPAC) the workshop included thirty participants from producer organizations, national institutes and regional research centers, ministries, RECs (CEMAC and ECCAS).
Maren Radeny is the Regional Program Coordinator for CCAFS in East Africa. CCAFS works in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to develop climate-smart agricultural practices and policies. It has six sites across the four countries. Research includes testing crop varieties resilient to drought and diseases, soil/water management, and use of climate information. Policy work includes integrating agriculture into climate negotiations and developing climate-smart agriculture plans in Kenya and Uganda. The overall aim is to address challenges smallholders face from climate variability and change and increase food security.
CCAFS works in East Africa to promote climate-smart agriculture. It has six research sites across Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. CCAFS aims to improve food security, reduce poverty, and improve natural resources through innovative technologies, policies, and investments that promote climate-smart agriculture. Online discussions focused on engaging youth in climate-smart agriculture and agribusiness. CCAFS works with youth groups in East Africa on activities like greenhouse production, irrigation, aquaculture, livestock, agroforestry, and using climate information services. Activities at the global level include analyzing data to benefit youth, improving youth engagement in policy, identifying climate-smart options for young farmers, using ICT technologies,
A journey towards meeting African farmers’ needs, the IBP perspective.pptxssuser5893431
The International Breeding Platform (IBP) aims to optimize crop breeding programs through expertise and software like the Breeding Management System (BMS). The IBP connects people, knowledge and resources across public, private and academic organizations to strengthen food crop delivery in targeted regions. Its goals are breeding programs that meet demand-led objectives considering agro-ecological, production and consumer needs. So far the IBP has enabled national programs through technologies, materials and data access in the BMS. It also facilitates data sharing, analysis and institutional memory through tools like the BMS. The IBP seeks to further digitalize African breeding and coordinate modernization by building on its network and supporting data integration along crop value chains.
Presentation by Catherine Mungai, CCAFS East Africa Partnerships and Policy Specialist, at the African Youth Consultative Workshop on Inter-Generational Justice on the sidelines of the Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA7) Conference.
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The Accelerating Impact of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project works to deliver a climate-smart African future driven by science and innovation in agriculture.
AICCRA does this by enhancing access to climate information services and climate-smart agricultural technology to millions of smallholder farmers in Africa.
With better access to climate technology and advisory services—linked to information about effective response measures—farmers can better anticipate climate-related events and take preventative action that help communities better safeguard their livelihoods and the environment.
AICCRA is supported by a grant from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank, which is used to enhance research and capacity-building activities by the CGIAR centers and initiatives as well as their partners in Africa.
About IDA: IDA helps the world’s poorest countries by providing grants and low to zero-interest loans for projects and programmes that boost economic growth, reduce poverty, and improve poor people’s lives.
IDA is one of the largest sources of assistance for the world’s 76 poorest countries, 39 of which are in Africa.
Annual IDA commitments have averaged about $21 billion over circa 2017-2020, with approximately 61 percent going to Africa.
This presentation was given on 27 October 2021 by Mengpin Ge, Global Climate Program Associate at WRI, during the webinar "Achieving NDC Ambition in Agriculture" organized by CCAFS, FAO and WRI.
Find the recording and more information here: https://bit.ly/AchievingNDCs
This presentation was given on 27 October 2021 by Sabrina Rose, Policy Consultant at CCAFS, during the webinar "Achieving NDC Ambition in Agriculture" organized by CCAFS, FAO and WRI.
Find the recording and more information here: https://bit.ly/AchievingNDCs
This presentation was given on 27 October 2021 by Krystal Crumpler, Climate Change and Agricultural Specialist at FAO, during the webinar "Achieving NDC Ambition in Agriculture" organized by CCAFS, FAO and WRI.
Find the recording and more information here: https://bit.ly/AchievingNDCs
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The multilevel CSA monitoring set of standard core uptake and outcome indicators + expanded indicators linked to a rapid and reliable ICT based data collection instrument to systematically
assess and monitor:
- CSA Adoption/ Access to CIS
- CSA effects on food security and livelihoods household level)
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1. Implementing Climate-smart village (CSV) approach in West
Africa : Key achievements & lessons learned for CSA
upscaling
Africa Climate-Smart Agriculture Alliance Forum Dakar, Senegal 27 – 28 March 2019
Mathieu Ouédraogo, Samuel T. Partey & Robert Zougmoré
CCAFS WA / ICRISAT - Mali
2. Key partners
Contact :
- ICRISAT : Robert Zougmoré CCAFS Regional Program Leader (r.zougmoré@cigar.org)
Mathieu Ouedraogo, Regional CSV Coordinator (m.ouedraogo@cgiar.org )
- ICRAF: Jules Bayala (ICRAF), Project Leader (j.Bayala@cigar.org )
- INERA : André Babou Bationo, CSV Focal point - Burkina Faso
- CSIR/SARI: Saaka Buah, CSV Focal point - Ghana
- IER: Kalifa Traoré, CSV Focal point - Mail
- INRAN: Abasse Tougiani, CSV Focal point - Niger
- ISRA: Diaminatou Sanogo, CSV Focal point - Senegal
See: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/regions/west-africa
3. Introduction
• Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is proposed as a solution
to transform and reorient agricultural systems to support
food security under the new realities of climate change.
• For this perspective, actions are needed to ensure a wider
diffusion and adoption of CSA options.
• Climate-Smart village approach addresses the need
for proven and effective CSA options in a real-life
setting and facilitates co-development of scaling
mechanisms towards landscapes, subnational and
national levels.
4. CSV - AR4D approach
• Learning sites
• Multiple partners
• Capacity building
Approach where CCAFS in partnership with rural communities and other
stakeholders (NARES, NGOs, local authorities…), tests & validates in an integrated
manner, several agricultural interventions (technological and institutional options) for
dealing with climate change (addressing the productivity, adaptation and mitigation
pillars, their synergies and trade-offs)
Scaling up
• Policy
• Private sector
• Mainstream successes
via major initiatives
Scaling out and up the
appropriate options
(addressing financial /
incentives mechanisms
and barriers)
Drawing lessons for
policy makers from local
to global levels
7. Climate-smart villages in West Africa :
Doggoh (Ghana), Tibtenga (Burkina),
Kaffrine (Senegal), Cinzana (Mali),
Kampa Zarma (Niger )
• Baseline studies at site (HH, VBS and OBS)
• Development of local adaptation plans through
participatory planning (using TOP-SECAC and gender tools)
• Development of local multi-disciplinary and
multi-organizational partnership frameworks (IP,
MWGs, Partnership for CI dissemination)
• Test of CSA technologies and practices by and
with communities
• Iterative sharing of results & planning next steps
• Gender mainstreaming in activities.
8. Ground testing of CSA technologies and
practices with communities
22 CSA options tested in 2016 :
6 with mitigation potential,
4 with gender impact known.
9. Activities Burkina Faso Ghana Mali Niger Senegal
Soil and water
conservation
techniques
Zaï, Half-moons,
Stone bunds, Manure
/ Micro-dosing,
Compost, FMNR
Ties ridges, Minimum
tillage-Rotation-ISFM
Compost, Mulching
Contour ridge
tillage
Micro-dosing
Compost
Zaï, Half-moon, FMNR FMNR
Localized
application of
fertilizers
Vegetation
rehabilitation
Tree planting: wood,
fruit (Adansonia
digitata) and
vegetables (Moringa
oleifera)
Tree planting:
woodlots (Cassia
siemea, Tectona
grandis), fruits
(Anacardium
occidentale, Mangifera
indica), leafy vegetable
(Moringa oleifera)
Tree planting:
fertilizer
(Gliricidia
sepium), fruit
(Adansonia
digitata) and
leafy vegetable
(Moringa
oleifera)
Tree planting: drought
tolerant tree species
(Piliostigma reticula-tum,
Bauhinia rufes-cens,
Ziziphus spina Christi,
Balanites aegyptiaca,
Leptadenia hastata) for
fodder, fruit and leaf
vegetable
Tree planting:
grafted and non-
grafted fruit trees
(Adansonia digitata,
Annona muricata,
Psidium guajava,
Tamarindus indica,
and Ziziphus
mauritiana) ,
Protected area
Drought
tolerant and
short cycle
varieties
millet, cowpea, and
sesame, biofortified
varieties of millet and
sweet potato
maize sorghum, millet. Millet, Sorghum,
groundnut, cowpea,
Sesame, Bambara
groundnut; Okra,
Maize, Millet
Gender specific
activities
(women)
Introduction of
Moringa oleifera
Off season
gardening
Nutrition education
Soybeans recipes
Gardening,
Fonio
Sesame
Vegetables Gardening, tree
planting, baobab
fruit powder
processing ,
Mitigation FMNR, Tree planting Tree planting
Jatropha curcas
based farming
system
Tree planting
Jatropha curcas
based farming
system
FMNR
Tree planting
FMNR, Tree
planting
Developing CSA portfolios in WA CSVs
10. Developing CSA portfolios in WA CSVs
Half-moons-Burkina FMNR - NigerImproved varieties - Niger
Baobab fruit
processing- Senegal
Gardening-Mali
Nutrition education,
soybeans recipes-Ghana
12. Conclusion
Improvement of diffusion and adoption of CSA options (SWC
techniques, improved varieties, FMNR, CIS)
Improvement of famers livelihoods (income, food security,
reduction of migration of youth)
Lack of sustained investment into climate adaptation and
resilience constitutes a barrier for the scaling up of validated
options.
Development of partnership around CSVs to support the
local development.
Mainstreaming of CSA into the development plan at all
scale (local, national and regional) in order to benefit from
development initiatives.
13. Key partners
Contact :
- ICRISAT : Robert Zougmoré CCAFS Regional Program Leader (r.zougmoré@cigar.org)
Mathieu Ouedraogo, Regional CSV Coordinator (m.ouedraogo@cgiar.org )
- ICRAF: Jules Bayala (ICRAF), Project Leader (j.Bayala@cigar.org )
- INERA : André Babou Bationo, CSV Focal point - Burkina Faso
- CSIR/SARI: Saaka Buah, CSV Focal point - Ghana
- IER: Kalifa Traoré, CSV Focal point - Mail
- INRAN: Abasse Tougiani, CSV Focal point - Niger
- ISRA: Diaminatou Sanogo, CSV Focal point - Senegal
See: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/regions/west-africa