CLEMATIS: CoLEarning with Models to Assess diversificaTIon Services

Assessing the contribution of crop diversification to ecosystems services: co-learning with models to integrate farmers’ and researchers’ knowledge

Date de début de projet

01/10/2021

Date de fin du projet

30/09/2023

Objectives

The overall objective is to co-design innovative farming systems, including legumes and contributing to crop-livestock integration, to improve the resilience and adaptation to climate change of smallholder farmers in the semi-arid zone of West Africa. Participatory and bottom-up approaches with local farmers will enable a co-learning process. Crop models will be used as a frontier object to share knowledge and bridge the gap between different scales, disciplines and actors.

Location

West Africa 

Description

The specific objectives are:
1.            To identify, in a participatory manner, key criteria and indicators for assessing farm performance and resilience to form the basis of co-learning cycles.
2.            Co-design innovative farming systems through participatory model-based explorations of the contribution of diversification with legumes and crop-livestock integration to various ecosystem services.
3.            Engage with researchers from various disciplines (agronomy, economics) and farmers (from various farm types) in effective dialogues on system redesign, based on a common understanding of the synthesized results (what works, where, how and for whom).

Partnership

CIRAD – WUR- AMSP-INERA

Team

Phenotyping and Modeling of Plants in their Agro-climatic ENvironment (PhenoMEn)

Fundings

Agropolis – WUR-PSS(Co-Funding)

117k including 67k financed by agropolis and 40k by WUR

Crop modeling, participatory approaches, system diversification, legumes