Description

Madagascar, the 4th poorest country in the world, is facing major climatic changes (global warming, decrease and increased variability of rainfall, more intense cyclones) and anthropogenic degradation (unsustainable agricultural practices, heavy use of wood). In the Central Highlands, the project's intervention zone, the increasingly continuous exploitation of cultivated soils, with little organic matter restored, is altering their potential while biotic constraints are exploding.

It is therefore necessary to look for adaptation solutions that allow for sufficient, resilient and sustainable production together with environmental preservation, and to promote an agro-ecological transition for a sustainable food security and the compliance with the country's mitigation commitments.

To achieve this, DINAAMICC is built around 4 components: (a) knowledge enhancement on certain constraints and situations; (b) co-development of agroecological practices (AE) adapted to resolve acute constraints and to improve the range of solutions that can make family farms (FF) more resilient and sustainable; (c) large dissemination of AE practices (already deemed to be of interest) ; and (d) enhancement of the operational capacities of farmers’ organizations (FO) and development actors and their ability to understand and cope with the complexity of situations, particularly through interaction with research. The project will contribute to food security through the improvement (diversity, quantity and quality) of agricultural production.

DINAAMICC project will adopt an integrated and participatory approach, based on exchanges between farmers, FOs, NGOs and agricultural research organizations, which will co-construct a common minimum analysis framework of practices and situations, considering the FF as a whole within their environment.

Different scientific skills will be mobilized to work alongside the FFs and NGOs on common experimental systems installed in the farming environment. The correct implementation of scientific activities and their interactions will be supervised by thematic leaders (biotic constraints, agroforestry, agriculture-livestock integration, water management and fish farming, climatic impacts, food). Collaborations will allow for mutual enrichment in terms of understanding the complexity of realities, the (often 'vital') 'priorities and emergencies' of farmers and the 'long term' imperatives of research.