Goals

The goal of this project is to co-create participatory experimental modelling networks in Ghana and Nigeria that enable farmers and scientists to jointly evaluate, optimize, and scale climate-smart agronomic practices particularly for VACS-priority crops to improve productivity, equity, resilience, and sustainability under current and future climate conditions.

 Expected results

1. Co-creation and development of participatory experimental-modelling networks in Ghana and Nigeria.
2. Evaluation and testing of VACS-priority crops, including Bambara groundnut and pigeon pea, across diverse farmer typologies and soil conditions.
3. Integration of equity and system metrics, statistical design principles, legacy soil data, and stakeholder preferences into experimental design.
4. Assessment of rotational and co-cropping interventions on productivity, equity (including for women and youth), water and nutrient use efficiency, soil health, crop nutritional quality, and carbon footprints.
5. Evaluation of wider socio-economic impacts, including access to new value chains.
6. Integration of modelling studies (including with AgMIP) for ex ante assessment of climate-smart interventions at scale.
7. Dissemination of knowledge and recruitment of new partners through the co-developed network.

Provision of an exemplar participatory action research model for scaling climate-smart agronomic practices.