Background

The Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) in collaboration with Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA), is implementing a project to showcase best practice examples of farmer-led adaptation in managing the negative impacts of climate change on agriculture. These studies will be selected from diverse regions across Africa. The final project output will be a compendium of farmer-led best practice case studies that demonstrate innovative local activities and methods to enhance agricultural adaptation and ultimately promote resilience.

At the project launch, EAFF and AICCRA announced the call for farmer-led best practice case studies that demonstrate innovative local activities and methods to enhance agricultural adaptation and ultimately promote resilience. You can submit your case study by 19 May.

Call for local case studies

EAFF and AICCRA are working towards developing a compendium of farmer-led best practice case studies that demonstrate innovative local activities and methods to enhance agricultural adaptation and ultimately promote resilience across the continent.

Case studies selection

Case studies will be selected from:

• All the geographical regions across Africa
• Will vary in their scale, focus and level of amition

Innovations will be identified and selected in collaboration with local partners, including regional farmer organisations, local communities, NGOs and other appropriate partnners.

Once identified, EAFF and AICCRA will collaborate directly with the grassroots level innovators to document their specific activities and best practices of each project in each unique locality. This includes information that:

• Captures the details of each innovation and describe how it effectively responds to a changing climate;
• Describes the lived reality of each context;
• Defines key challenges and enabling factors for the project's successes and difficulties;
• Gives valuable insights and "key takeaways";
• Provides recommendations on their suitability and potential application in other areas, with the hope to replicate and scale best practices in different regional areas across the continent.

What is required from our partner organisations:

• Assistance to identify farmers, farmer organisations, local agro-businesses in your particular region that are currently demonstrating leadership and good practices in agricultural adaptation to climate change;
• A motivation as to why this particular project demonstrates leadership and innovation;
• A brief introduction of the project to EAFF and AICCRA staff and the sharing of innovator or project contact details;
• Additional information and images that can help describe the innovation or practice.

Further information

If you'd like to know more about the submissions or the project itself, please contact:

Norbert Tuyishime - EAFF Project Officer - norbert.tuyishime@gmail.com

Romy Chevallier - AICCRA Policy and Engagement Consultant - r.chevallier@cgiar.org

About the launch workshop

Objectives:

• Introduce the project, its key objectives and timelines;
• Describe locally led farmer adaptation and provide examples of innovative practices;
• Launch a collaborative call for regional African farmer-led adaptation case studies; and
• Describe the case study selection process and request your support to identify farmers, farmer organisations and local agro-businesses that are demonstrating leadership and good practices in agricultural climate adaptation.

Presentations