West and central african food systems transformation

Research activities: Building resilience and reducing climatic risks in smallholder systems

This area of work focuses on scaling inclusive climate-smart agricultural practices and technologies, bundled with accessible and gender-targeted digital climate/agricultural/nutrition advice, finance and agronomic inputs, building on and complementing public and private sector schemes/partners to reach millions of farmers and value chain actors.

Read about the Initiative’s other focus areas:

• Enabling sustainable intensification and diversification of food production
• Developing sustainable landscape management plans and inclusive governance of agro-ecologies
• Catalyzing gender-responsive youth entrepreneurship and job creation
• Integrating and validating gender-transformative scaling readiness