Transforming rural livelihoods in Africa: How can land and water management contribute to enhanced food security and address climate change adaptation and mitigation?

Theme

Transforming livelihoods in Africa through soils research and development by climate change adaptation/mitigation, enhanced food security ad market access.

Areas of focus

• Enhancing applications of adaptation and mitigation to climate variability and change
• Enhancing the status of human nutrition and food security in Africa through Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM), and small scale irrigation
• Exploring options for sustainable intensification and diversification of crop soil livestock systems
• Land use planning for sustainable food security and climate change adaptation in Africa
• Commercialization aspects in land and water management: Markets and private sector engagement
• Scaling, socio-economics and policy options in land and water management
• Capacity building in land and water management within the Agricultural Product Value Chains (APVC) approach.