West and Central African Food Systems Transformation

Research activities: Developing sustainable landscape management plans and inclusive governance of agro-ecologies

Activities in this area include developing community-engaged participatory approaches targeting soil health, water resources and waste management; validating One Health approaches; pursuing gender equity in resource access; investigating circular economy chains for waste reuse; and promoting use of sustainable agronomic practices to minimize negative impacts at landscape level.

Read about the Initiative’s other focus areas:

• Enabling sustainable intensification and diversification of food production
• Building resilience and reducing climatic risks in smallholder systems
• Catalyzing gender-responsive youth entrepreneurship and job creation
• Integrating and validating gender-transformative scaling readiness