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ProSilience

  • Projects and activities | 20 Oct 2021
Global Food and Nutrition Security

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As in many other African countries, the pathways for future agriculture and food systems in Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya and Madagascar can still be modelled to a certain extent. Amongst the many proposals, efforts need to sustain ecologically intact landscapes while carefully enhancing agricultural productivity, such as agroecological approaches including soil conservation and rehabilitation, climate-resilient and low carbon agriculture, agroforestry, permaculture, and ecological intensification.

In this context, agricultural research should consider farming systems in a socioecological context and contribute to innovations back-to-back with the farmers in a co-creative manner to boost the transformative changes. Measurable good practices, policy orientations, and mechanisms to foster broad-scale implementation on the ground are still insufficient. Further investigation is needed on the contextualisation of agroecological practices, their cost-benefit and impact on rural livelihoods, economy and ecology, including their respective adaptation and mitigation benefits.

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Geographic coverageBeninMadagascarKenyaEthiopia
Originally Published

20 Oct 2021

Knowledge service | MetadataGlobal Food and Nutrition Security | AgroecologyResearch and Innovation | Food systems transformationAgroforestryClimate-smart agriculturePermaculture
Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET)soil protectionadaptation to climate changeagricultural research
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