The general objective is to help reduce poverty, as well as food and nutritional insecurity in rural communities in the central highlands of Madagascar. The specific objective is to help reduce the vulnerability of Family-operated Farms in the Central Highlands to the effects of climatic and environmental changes via the promotion of efficient, better suited, sustainable production systems based on agro-ecological practices.

The main activities of the DINAAMICC project are:

(i) inventory of the constraints suffered by farmers as a result of climate change and environmental disruption;

(ii) analysis of the adaptation practices;

(iii) improving knowledge and agro-ecological practices for pest control;

(iv) identifying and promoting a diversity of varieties to improve resilience and food supply;

(v) improving integration of agriculture, livestock and agro-forestry, as well as water conservation and distribution practices

(vi) multi-criteria and multi-scale assessment framework for the promotion of agro-ecological practices;

(vii) dissemination of knowledge concerning agro-ecological practices;

(viii) raising awareness of improved nutrition via the diversification and enhancement of production;

(ix) strengthening the physical infrastructure of the national weather service and cooperatively improving its information services for farmers;

(x) developing farmers' seed multiplication and distribution systems; and

(xi) strengthening the operational capacities of farmers' own organisations.