3rd Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance Forum Implementing Climate-smart village (CSV) approach in West Africa : Key achievements & lessons learned for CSA upscaling Presentation given by Dr. Mathieu Ouédraogo, CCAFS West Africa

1. Implementing Climate-smart village (CSV) approach in West
Africa : Key achievements & lessons learned for CSA
upscaling
Africa Climate-Smart Agriculture Alliance Forum Dakar, Senegal 27 – 28 March 2019
Mathieu Ouédraogo, Samuel T. Partey & Robert Zougmoré
CCAFS WA / ICRISAT - Mali

2. Key partners
Contact :
- ICRISAT : Robert Zougmoré CCAFS Regional Program Leader (r.zougmoré@cigar.org)
Mathieu Ouedraogo, Regional CSV Coordinator (m.ouedraogo@cgiar.org )
- ICRAF: Jules Bayala (ICRAF), Project Leader (j.Bayala@cigar.org )
- INERA : André Babou Bationo, CSV Focal point - Burkina Faso
- CSIR/SARI: Saaka Buah, CSV Focal point - Ghana
- IER: Kalifa Traoré, CSV Focal point - Mail
- INRAN: Abasse Tougiani, CSV Focal point - Niger
- ISRA: Diaminatou Sanogo, CSV Focal point - Senegal
See: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/regions/west-africa

3. Introduction
• Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is proposed as a solution
to transform and reorient agricultural systems to support
food security under the new realities of climate change.
• For this perspective, actions are needed to ensure a wider
diffusion and adoption of CSA options.
• Climate-Smart village approach addresses the need
for proven and effective CSA options in a real-life
setting and facilitates co-development of scaling
mechanisms towards landscapes, subnational and
national levels.

4. CSV - AR4D approach
• Learning sites
• Multiple partners
• Capacity building
Approach where CCAFS in partnership with rural communities and other
stakeholders (NARES, NGOs, local authorities…), tests & validates in an integrated
manner, several agricultural interventions (technological and institutional options) for
dealing with climate change (addressing the productivity, adaptation and mitigation
pillars, their synergies and trade-offs)
Scaling up
• Policy
• Private sector
• Mainstream successes
via major initiatives
Scaling out and up the
appropriate options
(addressing financial /
incentives mechanisms
and barriers)
Drawing lessons for
policy makers from local
to global levels

5. How to set up a Climate-smart village ?

6. Climate-Smart Villages in World
 36 CSV sites in 21
countries
 10 CSV sites in WA

7. Climate-smart villages in West Africa :
Doggoh (Ghana), Tibtenga (Burkina),
Kaffrine (Senegal), Cinzana (Mali),
Kampa Zarma (Niger )
• Baseline studies at site (HH, VBS and OBS)
• Development of local adaptation plans through
participatory planning (using TOP-SECAC and gender tools)
• Development of local multi-disciplinary and
multi-organizational partnership frameworks (IP,
MWGs, Partnership for CI dissemination)
• Test of CSA technologies and practices by and
with communities
• Iterative sharing of results & planning next steps
• Gender mainstreaming in activities.

8. Ground testing of CSA technologies and
practices with communities
 22 CSA options tested in 2016 :
 6 with mitigation potential,
 4 with gender impact known.

9. Activities Burkina Faso Ghana Mali Niger Senegal
Soil and water
conservation
techniques
Zaï, Half-moons,
Stone bunds, Manure
/ Micro-dosing,
Compost, FMNR
Ties ridges, Minimum
tillage-Rotation-ISFM
Compost, Mulching
Contour ridge
tillage
Micro-dosing
Compost
Zaï, Half-moon, FMNR FMNR
Localized
application of
fertilizers
Vegetation
rehabilitation
Tree planting: wood,
fruit (Adansonia
digitata) and
vegetables (Moringa
oleifera)
Tree planting:
woodlots (Cassia
siemea, Tectona
grandis), fruits
(Anacardium
occidentale, Mangifera
indica), leafy vegetable
(Moringa oleifera)
Tree planting:
fertilizer
(Gliricidia
sepium), fruit
(Adansonia
digitata) and
leafy vegetable
(Moringa
oleifera)
Tree planting: drought
tolerant tree species
(Piliostigma reticula-tum,
Bauhinia rufes-cens,
Ziziphus spina Christi,
Balanites aegyptiaca,
Leptadenia hastata) for
fodder, fruit and leaf
vegetable
Tree planting:
grafted and non-
grafted fruit trees
(Adansonia digitata,
Annona muricata,
Psidium guajava,
Tamarindus indica,
and Ziziphus
mauritiana) ,
Protected area
Drought
tolerant and
short cycle
varieties
millet, cowpea, and
sesame, biofortified
varieties of millet and
sweet potato
maize sorghum, millet. Millet, Sorghum,
groundnut, cowpea,
Sesame, Bambara
groundnut; Okra,
Maize, Millet
Gender specific
activities
(women)
Introduction of
Moringa oleifera
Off season
gardening
Nutrition education
Soybeans recipes
Gardening,
Fonio
Sesame
Vegetables Gardening, tree
planting, baobab
fruit powder
processing ,
Mitigation FMNR, Tree planting Tree planting
Jatropha curcas
based farming
system
Tree planting
Jatropha curcas
based farming
system
FMNR
Tree planting
FMNR, Tree
planting
Developing CSA portfolios in WA CSVs

10. Developing CSA portfolios in WA CSVs
Half-moons-Burkina FMNR - NigerImproved varieties - Niger
Baobab fruit
processing- Senegal
Gardening-Mali
Nutrition education,
soybeans recipes-Ghana

11. Scientific evidence of CSA portfolios
in CSVs- West Africa

12. Conclusion
Improvement of diffusion and adoption of CSA options (SWC
techniques, improved varieties, FMNR, CIS)
Improvement of famers livelihoods (income, food security,
reduction of migration of youth)
Lack of sustained investment into climate adaptation and
resilience constitutes a barrier for the scaling up of validated
options.
Development of partnership around CSVs to support the
local development.
 Mainstreaming of CSA into the development plan at all
scale (local, national and regional) in order to benefit from
development initiatives.

13. Key partners
Contact :
- ICRISAT : Robert Zougmoré CCAFS Regional Program Leader (r.zougmoré@cigar.org)
Mathieu Ouedraogo, Regional CSV Coordinator (m.ouedraogo@cgiar.org )
- ICRAF: Jules Bayala (ICRAF), Project Leader (j.Bayala@cigar.org )
- INERA : André Babou Bationo, CSV Focal point - Burkina Faso
- CSIR/SARI: Saaka Buah, CSV Focal point - Ghana
- IER: Kalifa Traoré, CSV Focal point - Mail
- INRAN: Abasse Tougiani, CSV Focal point - Niger
- ISRA: Diaminatou Sanogo, CSV Focal point - Senegal
See: https://ccafs.cgiar.org/regions/west-africa