West and Central African Food Systems Transformation

Research activities: Integrating and validating gender-transformative scaling readiness

Researchers are rolling out integrated public-private sector partnerships and local extension services for scale and impact; leveraging financial services; deploying spatial analyses and advanced foresight and impact assessment to guide investments; and using monitoring, evaluation, learning, and impact assessment tools and platform feedback to refine innovations and improve impact.

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
• Developing sustainable landscape management plans and inclusive governance of agro-ecologies
• Catalyzing gender-responsive youth entrepreneurship and job creation