West Africa

Current Projects

Farmer from Kenya working in the field with his cattle

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

Enabling institutions and policies for sustainable climate change governance in agriculture

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)

Climate information services for increased resilience and productivity in Senegal

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

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

The social impact of weather insurance for agriculture

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

Supporting improved policies and institutions

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

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Standard assessment of agricultural mitigation potential and livelihoods (SAMPLES)

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

Inclusive Climate Change Adaptation for a Sustainable Africa (ICCASA)

Standard assessment of agricultural mitigation potential and livelihoods (SAMPLES)

Advancing cowpea productivity in West Africa

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

Participatory tools for gender and social inclusion research under climate change

Partnerships for Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture (P4S)

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

Predictive technologies for climate-smart agriculture

Completed projects

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

CASCAID - Capacitating African Smallholders with Climate Advisories and Insurance Development

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

African Agriculture and Climate Change books

Analyzing the science-policy-practice interface in climate change adaptation work

Certified supply chains and impact investment

Collaboration for rigorous, low-cost emissions estimates

Enhancing the incomes and productivity of West African farmers through climate-smart agriculture

Mitigation Options Tool for agriculture (CCAFS-MOT)

Agricultural model intercomparison and improvement project (AgMIP)