AICCRA at COP28: Scaling CGIAR innovations in Africa through robust partnerships
Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA)
Together with our partners, we're scaling a climate-smart African future driven by science & innovation in agriculture.
As we approach the end of a busy year, AICCRA is set to have reached five million people across Africa with climate-smart agriculture technologies and climate information services. Robust partnerships with national and regional organizations in Africa, developed and strengthened through AICCRA support, are accelerating action to get CGIAR innovations off shelves, out of labs and into the hands of smallholder farmers.
With 世界银行 's recent commitment of an additional USD100 million to CGIAR for the AICCRA project in 2024-25, we're thrilled to be continuing this work to scale access to and use of CGIAR-led innovations in Africa.
The stories included here showcase our engagements at COP28, where we were able to share learnings and perspectives from AICCRA's work with our partners, and other recent highlights from our collaborative efforts to scale a climate-smart future for African agriculture.
There is much more to come next year and we're excited to continue building on the momentum and progress we've made together so far. Stay tuned!
World Bank commits $100 million at COP28 to CGIAR ‘climate-smart’ agriculture project in Africa
Through the AICCRA project, scientists, and researchers from across CGIAR support African national and regional partners with scientific and technical capacity development, with the aim of enhancing climate information services and validating packages of technologies, services or practices for agriculture that are validated to be ‘climate-smart’.
At COP28, World Bank Group Vice President for Sustainable Development Juergen Voegele announced that the Bank would make USD 100 million available to CGIAR in 2024-2025 and in his later remarks Martien van Nieuwkoop confirmed the funds would support AICCRA.
We spoke to Martien van Nieuwkoop at COP28:
Speaking after Martien’s comments, AICCRA’s Director Ana Maria Loboguerrero said:
"I am thrilled that the World Bank wishes to continue supporting AICCRA’s mission...AICCRA has made important progress in forging relationships of trust and collaboration between public and private sectors—and crucially farming communities too—enabling CGIAR scientific resources to be used in policy and practice. With additional finance, AICCRA will not only focus on broadening access to innovation, but also ensuring millions of farmers actually use such innovation in a meaningful and sustainable way.”
Scaling CGIAR innovation in Africa: Forging new collaborations for greater impact beyond COP28
CGIAR has played a critical role in global agricultural development for decades, promoting food security and raising living standards for smallholder farmers. In Africa, national and regional partners can and must play a critical role in delivering CGIAR-led innovations at scale.
At COP28, AICCRA hosted a debate on the future of CGIAR partnerships in Africa. Building on the conversation started at the inaugural Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi earlier this year, the purpose of AICCRA’s COP28 event was to collectively forge a new approach to collaboration between CGIAR research centers and African partners to accelerate and scale climate action in agriculture over the coming five years.
Playback the event:
AICCRA at COP28: Ready To Scale
During COP28, held in Dubai, UAE, the AICCRA team contributed to a range of events covering gender and data , finance , soil health , regional partnerships for scaling , the impacts of the?Climate Leadership Program ?with the African Group of Expert Negotiator Support (AGNES), livestock , climate education , bridging the gap between research and action in West Africa, and much more!
In other COP28 highlights, AICCRA and partners also:?
Phoebe Makueni , a Kenyan farmer, joined us at COP28 bringing an authentic farmer's voice to several events - connecting conversations in Dubai to the urgency of the need on the ground in places like Makueni County. In each event she spoke at, Phoebe urged those involved in the conversation to involve farmers more - from soil , to policy making, to financing .
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Hear directly from some of the AICCRA team who were present in Dubai: Ana Maria Loboguerrero , Dawit Solomon and Laura Cramer .
Enhancing agricultural practices: insights from Kenya AgriHack
Post-harvest losses pose a significant challenge to agriculture in Kenya, with statistics revealing their pervasive impact on various value chains. Emerging as an initiative from the Climate Smart Investment Plan (CSAIP) for Kenya and organized by AICCRA, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT , CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform (A4IP) (A4IP), in collaboration with The Rallying Cry , Kenya AgriHack aimed to address the critical issue of post-harvest losses , particularly in cereals, horticulture, and dairy value chains.
Kenya AgriHack not only sparked innovation but also fostered a collaborative ecosystem approach to addressing post-harvest losses in the agriculture sector. The event exemplified an alternative approach to developing solutions that are demand-led, inclusive, and sustainable.
Watch the video to see highlights and read more from the hackathon .
Climate education to strengthen agricultural support networks in Zambia
The farmer lies at the intersection of many economic, social, and environmental systems, and extension officers play a crucial role in connecting small-scale farmers to the climate information and data that will help them make informed decisions. But there are challenges and knowledge gaps in disseminating climate-related information in a way that makes it actionable for farmers.
Earlier this year, we gathered extension and advisory service providers in Zambia for validation and 'training of trainers' workshop on a new and first-of-its-kind Climate Risk Management in Agricultural Extension (CRMAE) curriculum developed by AICCRA in conjunction with key partners. Trainings like these contribute to scaling access to and the effective use of climate data.
In this video , hear from practitioners how the CRMAE curriculum will enable them to support farmers to better plan for, manage and respond to a changing climate.
In case you missed it: watch 'The Leaf Helping Yam Farmers Stop Pests'
Ghana’s response to the climate crisis in its agriculture sector has been brought to the attention of global audiences in a new series, The Climate and Us , presented by the Global Climate and Health Alliance Alliance, featuring films produced for CGIAR by BBC StoryWorks .?
Climate change has exacerbated pests and disease outbreaks worldwide, leading to 40 percent of food crops being destroyed annually. In Ghana, such ‘invasive alien species’ (as they are more technically known) cause food and agriculture-related losses valued at USD 50 million annually.
The AICCRA team in Ghana supports farmers in harnessing natural solutions for pest control through the science of Climate-Smart Integrated Pest and Disease Management.
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Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) is a project that helps deliver a climate-smart African future driven by science and innovation in agriculture. It is led by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and supported by a grant from the International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank.
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