Sustainable intensification of food production through resilient farming systems in West & North Africa

Informations projet

SustInAfrica

N° de convention de subvention: 861924

DOI

10.3030/861924

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 28 Avril 2020

Date de début 1 Septembre 2020

Date de fin 31 Mai 2026

Financé au titre de

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy

Coût total

€ 6 997 318,70

Contribution de l’UE

€ 6 997 318,70

Coordonné par

LUONNONVARAKESKUS
Finland

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Livrables

Documents, reports (30)

Socioeconomic and environmental screening metrics

Agreed set of metrics and Standard Operating Procedures for collecting data to assess impact of methods technologies and solutions developed by SustInAfrica on the environment social and economic systems

Approved smart farming technologies

Benefits of approved and verified smart monitoring technologies for smallholder farming communities

Demonstration trials

Detailed information on coselected demonstration trials their agroecological specifications and related societal environment

Final smart monitoring concept

Smart monitoring concept for smallholder farmers

Analysis of ecosystems services

Open access database on quantitative elements and report on ecosystems services.

2nd revision of education and training concept

Revised target-oriented training programmes

Low-cost monitoring concept

Low-cost remote sensing monitoring concept for crops and greening infrastructure

Project management guidelines

General information on SustInAfricas structure partnerships resources and methodologies to plan monitor and evaluate project progress

Interims synthesis

Synthesis of data and assessment of targeted AEZs, farming system, and value chains.

Quality assurance

Standards and produces set up to monitor and evaluate project progress

Social, economic, and political analysis

Report with data collection methods and tools per farming system and country for field work as to institutional systems.

1st revision of education and training concept

Revised target-oriented training programmes.

Technology scores (readiness) 3

Analyse and score each technology for climate resilience, environmental, and social impact.

Farming practices overview

Open access database on sustainable farming practices and their efficacy and efficienc

Education and training concept

Target-oriented training programmes to integrate at FMP and to further implement per selected AEZ appropriate to inform and train the different stakeholders on recommended methods for sustainable intensification of agricultural farming systems in targeted AEZs and to ensure continuous transfer and uptake of suggest management practices.

Technology scores (readiness) 1

Analyse and score each technology for climate resilience environmental and social impact

Communication, exploitation, and dissemination strategy (DEC plan)

Includes goals for DEC activities target groups key messages channels timetables and responsibilities as well as standards and procedures for preparing writing and organising project deliverables reports and results for dissemination Includes a knowledge output table of expected and produced outputs

Final synthesis

Synthesis of data and assessment of targeted AEZs, farming system, and value chains.

Description of agri-food systems

Specific description of agri-food system with its components and boundaries, the context in which the innovations will be replicated and actors to be involved.

Replicability assessment

Report on replicability produced for each technology that has passed the socio-economic screening and posted on the dashboard.

Implementation guidelines

Instructions how to repeat and implement best agricultural practices and crops in similar AEZs

Academic curricula

Target-oriented academic programmes on recommended methods for sustainable intensification of agricultural farming systems in W. and N. African AEZs and to ensure continuous agricultural research and development.

Smart farming and monitoring technology overview

Report and database of recent research activities businesses research projects and initiatives and available technologies regarding the agricultural technology sector in Europe with relevance for sustainable intensification of smallholder farmers in Africa

Revised screening metrics

Revised metrics and Standard Operating Procedures for collecting data to assess impact of methods technologies and solutions developed by SustInAfrica on the environment social and economic systems

Effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services

Biodiversity and ecosystems services functions of favoured crop specific farming systems and practices evaluated

Replicability indicators

Set of replicability indicators for each of the proposed outcomes formulated

Exploitation routes

Recommended and approved exploitation routes for each technology that has passed the socio-economic, replicability, and scaling readiness screening posted on the dashboard.

IP Frameworks

Reports in IP frameworks in each SustInAfrica country available on the Dashboard

Technology scores (readiness) 2

Analyse and score each technology for climate resilience, environmental, and social impact.

Risk management plan

Methods and processes for identifying and mitigating risks

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (14)

Methodology workshop

Data and information for systematic reviews andor metaanalyses that are relevant for WPs 1 4 5

Policy briefs

Set of agreed policy briefs to address barriers to adoption posted on the Dashboard.

Final seminar

Open meeting to closing the SustInAfrica and to meet decision-makers and international donors for a workshop (WP4).

Education and training web-platform

The platform aims to provide a personalised learning experience using text, images, audio, video, and illustrations presented in an engaging way

SustInAfrica webpage

Public project website including news outputs project info contact info and relevant links

SustInAfrica Academic and Policy Events

Organising and promoting SustInAfrica academic and policy events.

Verification workshops in Africa

Verification of in WPs 1, 4 & 5 gathered, prepared, and required data/information and its assessment for each country (n=5) and their AEZs (n=13) to prepare and coordinate site-specific verification activities with relevant actors (approx. 20 people) at each sample area, conducted by the local teams that are methodologically guided and compiled by task leader.

Smart farming workshops in Africa

Introduction of in WP2 gathered, approved, and developed smart farming technologies. Identification of barriers to adoption and commercialisation of in SustInAfrica developed and introduced technologies (WP5). One workshop for each country (n=5) to prepare and coordinate site-specific implementation with relevant actors (approx. 20 people) to be conducted by the local teams that are methodologically guided by task leader.

Investor briefs

Short briefs on each technology for interested agencies, donors and investors.

Academic framework online workshop

Finalising multi- and interdisciplinary MSc and PhD courses and programmes for African universities and research organisation with an aim to support WP4.

2nd in-person training

Training of professionals, service providers, and teachers

4th in-person training

Training of professionals, service providers, and teachers

1st in-person training

Training of professionals service providers and teachers

3rd in-person training

Training of professionals, service providers, and teachers

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data management plan (DMP)

Standards and procedures on data management and IPR

Other (6)

Smart farming tool box

Smart monitoring tools and applications made available and kept operational at FMP

Communication tool kit

Templates and tools eg templates ICT tools appropriate to ensure consistency and proper reference

Survey and assessment tool box for data collection

Methodological approaches and tools for data collection and assessment of African farming systems

Monitoring tool box

Monitoring and evaluation approaches and tools for impact assessment of SustInAfrica’s interventions on African farming system

Farming systems database

Open access database on quantitative key elements of farming systems per region and country

Baseline workshops in Africa

A baseline workshop per African country (n=5) integrating specific thematic experts is organised to support local partners to serve WPs 1, 4 & 5.

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

InsectaMon

Smart AI-based tool for insect monitoring

Publications

Conference proceedings (8)

From waste to wonder? Scaling the off-farm production of organic and biofertilisers in Africa: A scoping study 

Auteurs: Pierre Ellssel, Fortunate Nyakanda, Stéphanie Saussure, Hamada Abdelrahman, Nadege Amizero, Fatimah Von Abubakari, Esther Koopmanschap, Ioannis Dimitriou, Helena Posthumus, Bernhard Freyer
Publié dans: """Competing pathways for equitable food systems transformation: trade-offs and synergies""", 2023
Éditeur: Eric Tielkes (Ed.)

Drought monitoring and prediction using remotely-sensed data and SSP climate change scenarios in a Tunisian olive orchard

Auteurs: Zare, M.; Hobart, M.; Boussadia, O.; Ben-Hamouda, A.; Chaieb, N; Ellssel, P.; Schirrmann, M.
Publié dans: """Competing pathways for equitable food systems transformation: trade-offs and synergies""", 2023
Éditeur: Eric Tielkes (Ed.)

No-tillage and cover crop practices for the agroecological transition of rainfed Tunisian olive groves.

Auteurs: Olfa Boussadia, Hatem Zgallai, Amel Ben Hamouda, Marius Hobart, Pierre Ellssel, Stéphanie Saussure
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Eric Tielkes (Ed.)
DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.12420.95364

PHOTOGRAMMETRICALLY ASSESSED SMALLHOLDER PINEAPPLE FIELDS IN GHANA USING SMALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS

Auteurs: """Marius Hobart, Eugene Anin-Adjei, Emmanuel Hanyabui, Godwin Badu-Marfo, Nina Schiller, Michael Schirrmann"""
Publié dans: """PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2nd African Conference on Precision Agriculture (AfCPA)""", 2022
Éditeur: African Plant Nutrition Institute

Fully Hyperbolic Convolutional Neural Networks for Computer Vision

Auteurs: Ahmad Bdeir, Kristian Schwethelm, Niels Landwehr
Publié dans: ICLR 2024, 2024
Éditeur: International Conference on Learning Representations
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2303.15919

Convergence and divergence of smart and precision farming technologies, agroecological principles and smallholder agriculture in Africa

Auteurs: Pierre Ellssel, Marius Hobart, Bernhard Freyer, Michael Schirrmann, Stephanie Saussure, Nils Borchard
Publié dans: Can agroecological farming feed the world? Farmers' and academia's views, 2022
Éditeur: Eric Tielkes (Ed.)
DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.27858.84167

Optimising Soil Health in Africa - A holistic approach to fertilizer management using in situ and ex situ resources -

Auteurs: Pierre Ellssel, Frank Place, Fortunate Nyakanda, Stephanie Saussure, Helena Posthumus, Sieg Snapp, Cargele Masso, William Burke, Bernhard Freyer
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Eric Tielkes (Ed.)
DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.20396.68480

The impact of soil management, agroecological zone, and season on ground-dwelling insects in Tunisian olive groves

Auteurs: Amel Ben Hamouda, Olfa Boussadia, Pierre Ellssel, Marius Hobart, Stéphanie Saussure
Publié dans: 2024
Éditeur: Eric Tielkes (Ed.)
DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.19131.84009

Peer reviewed articles (13)

Performance and Sustainability of Organic and Conventional Cotton Farming Systems in Egypt: An Environmental and Energy Assessment

Auteurs: Andi Mehmeti, Ahmed Abdelwahab M. Abdelhafez, Pierre Ellssel, Mladen Todorovic, Generosa Calabrese
Publié dans: Sustainability, Numéro 16, 2024, Page(s) 6637, ISSN 2071-1050
Éditeur: MDPI Open Access Publishing
DOI: 10.3390/su16156637

Building a solid foundation: advancing evidence synthesis in agri-food systems science

Auteurs: Pierre Ellssel, Georg Küstner, Magdalena Kaczorowska-Dolowy, Eduardo Vázquez, Claudia Di Bene, Honghong Li, Diego Brizuela-Torres, Elansurya Elangovan Vennila, José Luis Vicente-Vicente, Daniel Itzamna Avila-Ortega
Publié dans: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Numéro 8, 2024, ISSN 2571-581X
Éditeur: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1410205

A review of the direct and indirect effects of African agroforestry trees

Auteurs: Moussa Massaoudou, Larwanou Mahamane
Publié dans: Discover Forests, Numéro 1, 2025, ISSN 3059-2666
Éditeur: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s44415-025-00028-x

Species inventory and morphological measurements of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) and ants (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Formicidae) collected in northern Ghana

Auteurs: Veikko Yrjölä, Luís Crespo, Stephanie Saussure, Francis Asamoah, Arttu Soukainen, Benjamin Badii, Pasi Sihvonen, Pedro Cardoso
Publié dans: Biodiversity Data Journal, Numéro 14, 2026, ISSN 1314-2828
Éditeur: Pensoft Publishers
DOI: 10.3897/bdj.14.e163267

Ecosystem services provided by spiders

Auteurs: Pedro Cardoso, Stano Pekar, Klaus Birkhofer, Angela Chuang, Caroline Sayuri Fukushima, Eileen A Hebets, Yann Henaut, Thomas Hesselberg, Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte, Ondřej Michálek, Radek Michalko, Catherine Scott, Jonas Wolff, Stefano Mammola
Publié dans: natural hazards, 2026, ISSN 1573-0840
Éditeur: Springer
DOI: 10.22541/au.172538631.11011603/v1

Linking drivers of food insecurity and ecosystem services in Africa

Auteurs: Gregory Ayitey Aryee, Idalina Dias Sardinha, Cristina Branquinho
Publié dans: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Numéro 8, 2024, ISSN 2571-581X
Éditeur: Journal: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, section Land, Livelihoods and Food Security
DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1272332

Assessment of Damage of the Fall Armyworm, <i>Spodoptera </i><i>frugiperda</i> J. E. Smith., 1797 (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) on Maize and Millet in Maradi, Niger

Auteurs: Oumar Farouk, Idriss Hamidou Leyo, Souleymane Laminou, Ibrahim Kasso A. Rahamane, Moussa Massaoudou, Dan Dano Na Inna A. Aziz, Yakouba Alzouma Yanoussa, Larwanou Mahamane, Ousmane Zakari Moussa
Publié dans: Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, Numéro 16, 2026, Page(s) 207-220, ISSN 2156-8456
Éditeur: Scientific Research Publishing, Inc.
DOI: 10.4236/abb.2025.165013

Exploring the state of ex situ organic fertilizer and soil amendment production: an innovation systems analysis across eleven African countries

Auteurs: Pierre Ellssel, Bernhard Freyer, Helena Posthumus, Marius Hobart, Fortunate Nyakanda, Nadege Amizero, Fatimah von Abubakari, Stéphanie Saussure
Publié dans: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Numéro 10, 2026, ISSN 2571-581X
Éditeur: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2026.1656284

Ecosystem services provided by spiders

Auteurs: Pedro Cardoso, Stano Pekár, Klaus Birkhofer, Angela Chuang, Caroline Sayuri Fukushima, Eileen A. Hebets, Yann Henaut, Thomas Hesselberg, Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte, Ondřej Michálek, Radek Michalko, Catherine Scott, Jonas Wolff, Stefano Mammola
Publié dans: Biological Reviews, Numéro 100, 2025, Page(s) 2217-2236, ISSN 1464-7931
Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/brv.70044

Assessing agricultural drought risk under CMIP6 scenarios using hybrid AI models and satellite-derived TVDI

Auteurs: Mohammad Zare, Marius Hobart, Michael Schirrmann
Publié dans: npj Natural Hazards, Numéro 3, 2026, ISSN 2948-2100
Éditeur: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44304-026-00199-3

Estimating Canopy Structure Parameters and Leaf Nitrogen in Olive Orchards Using UAV Imagery Across Two Agro-Ecological Zones in Tunisia

Auteurs: Marius Hobart, Olfa Boussadia, Amel Ben Hamouda, Antje Giebel, Pierre Ellssel, Cornelia Weltzien, Michael Schirrmann
Publié dans: Remote Sensing, Numéro 18, 2026, Page(s) 1300, ISSN 2072-4292
Éditeur: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs18091300

Toward sustainable oliviculture: Effects of replacing mineral with organic nitrogen on floral behaviour, fruit quality and yield

Auteurs: null null, Hamed H. Hamed, Ahmed A Abdelhafez, null null, Ahmed A. Rashedy, null null, Sameh Shaddad, null null
Publié dans: Journal of Applied Horticulture, 2025, ISSN 0972-1045
Éditeur: Society for Adancement of Horticulture
DOI: 10.37855/jah.2025.v27i03.90

Drought Monitoring and Prediction in Agriculture: Employing Earth Observation Data, Climate Scenarios and Data Driven Methods; a Case Study: Mango Orchard in Tamale, Ghana

Auteurs: Marius Hobart, Michael Schirrmann, Abdul-Halim Abubakari, Godwin Badu-Marfo, Simone Kraatz, Mohammad Zare
Publié dans: Remote Sensing, Numéro 16, 2024, Page(s) 1942, ISSN 2072-4292
Éditeur: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs16111942