The programme will build, strengthen and scale up the resilience and adaptive capacities of smallholder farmers and rural communities of seven least developed countries (LDCs) in this region. It will...
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The Food Systems Integrated Program (FSIP), led by FAO and IFAD, will direct $252 million in project financing and $2.2 billion in co-financing to 32 countries. The FSIP...
TRANSITIONS seeks to facilitate agroecological transitions that are informed by climate considerations among farmers in low- and medium-income countries (LMICs). This will be achieved by creating comprehensive...
Description: This EU-funded programme - 23.2 M EUR, including EUR 18.2 million from the EU and EUR 5.0 million from Belgium - has the objective to enable...
This Initiative aims to use an end-to-end approach to increase fruit and vegetable intake and in turn improve diet quality, nutrition and health outcomes while also improving livelihoods...
The CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology is a transdisciplinary, participatory, and action-oriented approach aimed at enhancing food system resilience, equity, and sustainability.
Farmers Organisations Leading Research & Innovation on agroecology for sustainable food systems Resilient, productive and sustainable agroecological agri-food systems secured through farmer-led innovation...
The Hand-in-Hand Initiative aims at facilitating partnerships and investments to accelerate the transformation of agrifood systems in the region.
This CGIAR initiative aims to re-imagine, co-create, and implement nature-positive solutions-based agrifood systems that equitably support food and livelihoods on the ground, while simultaneously ensuring that agriculture is a net...
Scope and objectives The activities will primarily support IDPs and their host communities in the border regions of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. They will target those...
The general objective is to create the conditions for small producers in the Sahel to set up innovative technical systems of agro ecological intensification (AEI), allowing them a more efficient and sustainable...
The EWA-BELT project aims to sustainably intensify agricultural production in organic, agroforestry, mixed-crop and livestock farming systems in 38 study areas across six countries in East...
As citizens of the world, we are all facing an extraordinary challenge. In the year 2050, an estimated 9 billion people need to be fed. Every single day...
The overall objective of CDAIS is to make agricultural innovation systems more efficient and sustainable in meeting the demands of farmers, agri-business and consumers. CDAIS operates in eight pilot countries...
VCA4D responds to the need for quantitative data and evidence-based indicators to inform decision-makers. These elements are often lacking. It provides a detailed assessment of a VC’s operation...
The general objective of LEAP4FNSSA is to establish a sustainable structure, or ‘Platform’, for the efficient and coherent implementation of the AU-EU Research and Innovation Partnership as described in the FNSSA Roadmap. Under the aegis of the HLPD...
Aflasafe is a safe natural solution to the problem of aflatoxin, homegrown in Africa with help from partners in the USA and Europe. It works from the plot to your plate to stop contamination from reaching...
ECOAGRIS est un acronyme qui signifie « Système Régional Intégré d’Information Agricole de la CEDEAO ». Il a été conçu pour...
The overall aim of SERVInnov is to strengthen, multiply and promulgate innovations which have significant positive impacts on food and nutrition security through improvement of agriculture and agrifood systems...
This project, aims to explore the advantages of traditional fermentations methods of whole grain consumption and current knowledge of cereal bioprocessing in order to develop affordable and acceptable cereal fibre-rich...
The crucial challenge for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa is feeding a growing population while preserving the natural resource base of the agricultural system. In future, this challenge will be...
The development of irrigated and improved lowland agriculture in Western Africa (WA) has not resulted in a significant increase in food security or in a motor for economic growth, in spite of its...
WAHARA will take a transdisciplinary approach to develop innovative, locally adapted water harvesting solutions with wider relevance for rainfed Africa. Water harvesting technologies play...
Agroforestry is a form of agriculture “alternative” to conventional one, which provides multi-functional environmental, agronomic, economic and social benefits able to support sustainable improvement of food, nutrition...
Heartwater, caused by Ehrlichia ruminantium (ER) , constitute a major threat to ruminant production in Africa, affecting mainly small ruminants. Although a commercial vaccine is available...
A long neglected small-grain cereal, fonio plays an important role in the food security of rural families in a region of West Africa stretching from Senegal to Lake Tchad. Traditional...
SESASA aims at developing a "system of systems (SoS)" for assessing agricultural land-use-and-management-change scenarios and provide adaptive feed-back. SESASA will connect farmer responses to social, economic...
Today in Africa, demand for dairy products is rising. However, dairies have difficulties to source local milk in terms of volume, regularity and quality.Sustainability of dairy production, contribution...
Suboptimal folate intake is common not only in developing countries but also in many industrialized countries. Cereal products contribute markedly to folate intake. Thus, especially...