Gaining Ground

This GRA CSA side event took place during the Africa Science and Partnership for Agriculture Conference (SPAC) in September 2022 in Accra, Ghana, and was co-hosted by NZAGRC and ILRI.
The side event titled “Gaining Ground: A Workshop to Strengthen collaborations to advance Climate-Smart Agriculture” sought to showcase science-based practices that illustrate pathways to climate-smart, low-emission agricultural development and to identify steps needed to improve global and regional collaboration for long-term climate-smart agriculture (CSA) transformation.
Participants reported the training and experience exchanges were very useful for improving the design of CSA practices. Insights emerged related to illustrating adaptation and mitigation co-benefits, enhancing collaboration between research institutions and governments, scaling viable CSA technologies, efficient communication channels, robust data collection/information management systems, and that local adoption requires demonstrating the efficacy of CSA interventions in each national context.
Speakers at the side event included:
• Dr Claudia Arndt, Senior Scientist and Co-leader, Mazingira Centre ILRI, Kenya
• Dr Ackim Mwape, Africa Programme Lead NZAGRC, New Zealand
• Dr Wilhelmina Quaye, Director CSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Ghana
• Dr Kofi Konadu Boateng, Program Associate for Agriculture, Global Methane Hub (GMH)