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

Brief me

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.