West Africa

A view of partners during a conference co-organised by WASCAL and CCAFS

Current Projects

Adaptation and Valorization of Entrepreneurship in Irrigated Agriculture (AVENIR)

Farmer from Kenya working in the field with his cattle

Building livelihoods and resilience to climate change in East and West Africa

Multispecies fodder bank as climate-smart option for an improved livestock nutrition in Northern Ghana

Food System Adaptation in Changing Environments in Africa (FACE-Africa)

Integrated soil-water-energy system as a climate-smart agro-sylvo-pastoral production model in Cinzana, Mali

Climate information services for increased resilience and productivity in Senegal

Upscaling climate information services and technologies through IT-led public-private-partnership

Standard assessment of agricultural mitigation potential and livelihoods (SAMPLES)

Advancing cowpea productivity in West Africa

Supporting improved policies and institutions

Participatory tools for gender and social inclusion research under climate change

Partnerships for scaling out climate-smart agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

Predictive technologies for climate-smart agriculture

Woman holding chart with collected measurments

Standard assessment of agricultural mitigation potential and livelihoods (SAMPLES)

The social impact of weather insurance for agriculture

Scaling up climate-smart agriculture technologies for improved food and nutrition security in Niger

Synthesis and support to climate-smart agriculture evidence building and scaling

Low-emissions opportunities in USAID agriculture and food security initiatives

Innovative finance for scaling up climate-smart agriculture

Enhanced climate information services and big data solutions to enhance smallholder production for value chains in West Africa

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Climate Food and Farming - Global Research Alliance Development Scholarships (CLIFF-GRADS)

Inclusive Climate Change Adaptation for a Sustainable Africa (ICCASA)

Partnerships for Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture (P4S)

Completed projects

CASCAID - Capacitating African Smallholders with Climate Advisories and Insurance Development

(ICRAF - WA) Building resilient agro-sylvo-pastoral systems in West Africa through participatory action research (BRAS-PAR).

Systemic Integrated Adaptation

Climate Change and Social Learning Initiative

Support the Scaling up of CSA approach in Cabo Verde, Guinea Bissau and the Seychelles

Scaling up climate-smart agriculture technologies and tools to benefit regional, national and community level end-users

Gender and climate change

Bridging the science-policy gap through climate exchange platforms in West Africa

Developing Climate-Smart Village models in West Africa

Small Holder Agriculture Monitoring and Baseline Assessment (SHAMBA)

Building climate-smart farming systems through integrated water storage and crop-livestock interventions

Climate services for Africa