West and Central African Food Systems Transformation

Research activities: Enabling sustainable intensification and diversification of food production

Researchers aim to achieve this by pursuing demand-creation to promote nutritious foods; co-designing cost-effective, diverse, and sustainable production systems; promoting good agricultural practices (including integrated management of water, soil fertility, pests, and diseases); developing business models in sustainable seed system development; and disseminating approaches to diversified and intensified farming systems.

Read about the Initiative’s other focus areas:

• Building resilience and reducing climatic risks in smallholder systems
• 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