GCRF-AFRICAP Agricultural and food system resilience: Increasing capacity and advising policy

The project this publication refers to has developed an evidence base for climate-smart food systems through three related strands – scenario planning workshops, cross-disciplinary research and integrated assessment framework, iFEED. GCRF-AFRICAP’s vision is for agriculture and food systems in southern Africa to be resilient to climate change and contribute towards meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Working in Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia, we have made progress towards this vision through building actionable evidence around climate-resilient pathways and transformations, and building capacities for the translation of this evidence into both policy and practice.

Achieving food systems that are resilient and sustainable under a range of plausible futures requires them to be ‘climate-smart’: able to adapt to climate change, reduce emissions and increase production; and to support nutrition and livelihood security. This necessitates holistic and integrated policymaking and implementation at many scales.