Projects

This activity will cover the following aspects:

1. Multi-stakeholders engagements to inventorize promising climate smart crop-livestock-agroforestry practices and to prioritize practices for testing.
2. Assessment of needs to build the capacity of the stakeholders in adaptation planning to promote climate smart agriculture. 3. Analysis of promising crop, livestock and agro-forestry value chains.
4.Generate accurate and relevant climate information and assess the impact of its use in planning agricultural activities

1. Participatory design, testing and monitoring of transformative climate smart water and crop-livestock-tree gender sensitive and specific options (agroforestry, water harvesting, livestock nutrition).

2. Modelling response of integrated crop-livestock-agroforestry options under different climate change and socio-economic scenarios.

3. Feedback workshops on results from participatory action research.

4. Developing support tools, approaches (including strategic engagements and partnerships) and guidelines for climate smart agriculture targeting/prioritization and local adaptation and investment planning

1. Baseline and endline surveys to characterize changes in knowledge, attitude and skills of the farmers in the climate smart villages on adaptation planning and on integrated crop-livestock-agroforestry options to promote climate smart agriculture.

2. Assessment of the socio-economic and institutional conditions of success-optimization and failure to adoption of incremental climate smart water and crop-livestock-tree technological options

In the context of increasing climate variability and uncertainty, access to and use of reliable climate information to inform decisions in the agricultural sector are becoming instrumental to strengthen farmers’ resilience to climate shocks. Therefore this project will improve climate forecast information using historical climate records, satellite data to complement the weather station data (ENACTS) and predict crop yield (Earth-Audit and SARRA-H models). All these and other past experiences in the region will be capitalized and put into use in a participatory way to support farmers and local communities to plan their livelihood activities, which go beyond agriculture (crop, livestock, and tree). Moreover, the project will involve strong multi-actors’ partnership and the use of ICT to reach larger number of end users quicker and cheaper.