Description

The Crop diversity for food security in West Africa project is a pilot that started in October 2021 with a focus on seed system resilience in insecure areas of Mali and Nigeria where there is a compounding crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and insecurity. The program facilitates smallholder farmers’ access to agrobiodiversity and livelihood opportunities, and ultimately food and nutrition security, through seed systems resilience building.

The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach is used to facilitate learning, empowerment and social coherence. The FFS on participatory variety selection, where farmer plant seeds by selecting specific traits they choose, provide climate risk mitigation and adaptation strategies while the FFS on seed production and marketing strengthen community seed availability and access. The FFS are being implemented in 13 communities in the Segou and Mopti regions of Mali and in 20 communities in the Bauchi and Jigawa states in Northern Nigeria.

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Upcoming: Conference in Nigeria.