Project description
Agroforestry solutions for resilient agro-pastoral systems in Africa
Agroforestry solutions can enhance agricultural practices, household resilience, and climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts, thereby improving biodiversity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The EU-funded GALILEO project will co-develop people-centred agroforestry innovations in agro-pastoral systems across SSA. Using genuine Multi-Actor Approaches (MAA), the project will establish eight Living Labs (LLs) and four national and one regional Innovation Platform (IP) in four African Union SSA countries. The LLs, located in semi-arid zones of Senegal and Kenya and drought-prone areas of Ghana and Cameroon, will facilitate the collaborative development of adoptable scenarios. These scenarios will be assessed and compared in pilot plots. The innovations will help farmers and stakeholders diversify their incomes through new agroforestry value chains.
Objective
The overall objective of GALILEO is to rely on genuine Multi-Actor Approaches (MAA) to co-develop context-specific, people-centered agroforestry innovations in representative agro-pastoral, agroforestry, and agro-silvo-pastoral systems from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The aim is to promote agroforestry as leverage to significantly improve agricultural, household, and climate change adaptation and mitigation performances and to enhance biodiversity in SSA.
We build upon 8 agroforestry Living Labs (LLs: local scale and actors), 4 national and 1 regional Innovation Platforms (IPs), set up across 4 AU SSA countries. Our LLs are set in semi-arid zones of Senegal and Kenya and normally humid but drought-prone zones of Ghana and Cameroon thus comparing and covering a large range of SSA conditions.
Through MMA, we co-construct potentially adoptable scenarios ex-ante with Innovator, Target, and Control actors in our LLs, then implement, assess, and compare performances in their pilot plots during the whole project. We use field observations also to calibrate process models, able to simulate under future CC scenarios. After full multi-criteria and trade-off analysis, we finally co-select the most effective scenarios ex-post. We thus rely on transdisciplinary research, providing qualitative and quantitative data on the biophysical, socio-economic, and environmental performances.
Such adoptable agroforestry innovations will also enable farmers/pastoralists and stakeholders to diversify their incomes from new agroforestry value chains, of which 2 are GALILEO-original. They will also benefit from carbon farming and payment for ecosystem services opportunities.
Through our IPs, we also engage in solid MAA collaborations and policy dialogues to first identify bottlenecks and second elaborate guidelines, and policy recommendations, helping towards strengthening their local innovation ecosystems, under a favorable institutional and policy framework.
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Participants (22)
55133 KALAMARIA, THESSALONIKI
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
13572 Marseille
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75007 Paris
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85100 Potenza
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6708 PB Wageningen
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1165 Kobenhavn
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69001 Lyon
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92000 NANTERRE
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59360 LANDRECIES
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3120 Dakar
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15 532 Dakar
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Dakar
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23000 MBOUR
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60100 Embu
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0100 Nairobi
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EC1N 8SJ LONDON
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N/A LEGON ACCRA
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200001 Ibadan
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Accra
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KUMASI
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2123 Yaounde
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237 YAOUNDE
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
5070 Frick
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