AICCRA Validating Climate-Smart Agriculture Innovations through Piloting (Component 3)

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    Building women’s climate resilience through smart groundnut socio-technical innovation bundle in Ghana
    (Brief, 2024-11) Obeng Adomaa, Faustina
    Interventions aimed at building climate resilient communities require a mixture of instruments that speak to the peculiar realities of women, youth, and other vulnerable groups. Building of learnings from 2021-2023, this InfoNote presents a social technical innovation bundle for smart groundnut production that brings together technical solutions and institutional arrangements to address the primary challenges that women groundnut farmers in northern Ghana face. The Info Note also presents pathway for scaling this smart groundnut socio-technical innovation bundle.
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    Initial Training of New Platforms on Climate Change - Climate-Smart Agriculture - Positioning of Multistakeholder Platforms within the AICCRA System
    (Report, 2024-02) Sidibe, Mahamadou
    This report summarizes the initial training of two newly established multi-stakeholder platforms under the Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) project, in partnership with AfricaRice and the Office du Niger. The training aimed to enhance the capacity of the Synergie des Exploitants Agricoles de l’Office du Niger (SEXAGON) and the Collective of Women Farmers of the Office du Niger (CFEON) to disseminate climate-resilient and nature-positive solutions. The objectives were to provide participants with knowledge about the AICCRA project, climate change, and Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), and to develop their skills for scaling up smart agricultural technologies. The training covered key topics, including the concept of CSA, climate change adaptation and mitigation, change management, and communication strategies for social and behavioral transformation. The report highlights the methodological approach, training content, and participant engagement, emphasizing the role of platforms in fostering sustainable agricultural practices and climate resilience. Outcomes included improved understanding of CSA, enhanced dissemination skills, and actionable plans for integrating these solutions into local farming systems. Gender considerations and participant feedback were also addressed to ensure inclusivity and relevance. This initiative contributes to AICCRA’s goals of improving climate resilience, food security, and sustainable agricultural practices in Africa.
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    Ethiopia Climate-Smart Agriculture Investments Summary
    (Brief, 2023-01) Tesfaye, Lidya; Barale, Kelsey; Alemayehu, Sintayehu; Nowak, Andreea C.; Jaquet, Stéphanie
    In Ethiopia, a group of stakeholders, including representatives from local governments, research institutions, the Ministry of Agriculture, farmers' unions, the private sector, and NGOs, developed the planning framework that formed the basis for Ethiopia's Climate-Smart Agriculture Investment Plan (CSAIP). The CSAIP outlines seven priority investments identified by stakeholders to meet the goals of productivity, adaptation, and mitigation. This Info Note briefly summarizes these prioritized investments, key considerations for success, and the monitoring and evaluation plan.
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    Sorghum Value Chain Business Case Development
    (Report, 2022-09) Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa; Financial Access Consulting Services
    Sorghum production is vital to the country’s food security and can play a major role in improving the livelihoods of farmers in arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL). Being a drought resistant crop that can tolerate extreme temperatures and flooding conditions, it offers farmers in ASAL regions a better alternative to generate higher incomes compared to other staples such as maize and wheat. Despite this, uptake of sorghum farming has been slow with production lagging demand nationally. Most farmers have yet to adopt the good agricultural practices (GAP) necessary to boost production. 84.4% of sorghum farmers in Makueni utilize uncertified seeds from their own stored sources while 30.9% of them grow the crop without any fertilizer. The AICCRA project seeks to remedy this by developing a climate-smart lending business case that will encourage financial institutions to lend to these farmers. The business case shall facilitate the formulation of a pilot lending scheme involving a Partner Financial Institution (PFI) covering the semi-arid counties of Kitui and Makueni in Lower Eastern Kenya.