GCRF-AFRICAP - Agricultural and Food-system Resilience: Increasing Capacity and Advising Policy
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leeds
Department Name: Sch of Biology
Abstract
Agricultural development is fundamental to achieving many of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Levels of undernourishment and malnutrition remain high across the region and current trends show a growing gap between the food needs of a growing population and agricultural productivity. Moreover, in a context of changing climates, and, in many areas, increased incidence of extreme and unprecedented events (notably drought and extreme heat, as well as increasingly extreme rainfall and crop pest infestations), the increased risk of crop failures is exacerbating this challenge. Across Africa, governments recognise that agricultural development and transformation needs to be an engine of economic growth and poverty alleviation, particularly where cycles of low productivity (and periodic crop failures), limited access to resources, and small land holdings lock rural households into cycles of poverty.
Agricultural practice must also contribute to the sustaining of soil, water, biodiversity and more, and is increasingly being targeted as a sector within which we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Achieving sustainable and resilient transformations of agriculture and food systems in Africa is a complex and multi-faceted challenge, which requires novel approaches to research and evidence and new policy and institutional enabling environments. This project sets out to collaboratively build the capacities required across research and policy to tackle this multi-faceted challenge, and help avoid the policy paralysis that in some countries led to little or no progress towards the Millennium Development goals.
The project team, which includes the University of Leeds, University of Aberdeen, the UK Met Office, the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) and Chatham House encompasses expertise in agriculture, climate, ecology, soils, water, post-harvest losses, land use, nutrition and health, rural livelihoods, and policy and institutional analysis. FANRPAN is a multi-stakeholder pan-African network whose mission is to build resilient food systems across Africa through the assessment and creation of food, agriculture and natural resources policies that are both evidence-based and developed in partnership with non-state actors.
We will address research and capacity growth under 3 broad themes: (1) how to make agriculture (and food systems) productive as well as resilient to extreme weather whilst minimising impacts on the environment and maximising its contributions to livelihoods, and food and nutrition (2) as the economic and food-security demands on agriculture change over the next decades, and at the same time weather and climate risks change, what are the feasible ways that agriculture can develop to become more productive in order to meet future needs? (3) how can policy be developed that enables potential sustainable, productive, climate-resilient pathways to be realised in the most inclusive way, thus maximising the contribution of agriculture to achieving the SDGs?
Work will be focused in four countries in SSA: Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia -which are low income countries with varied farming systems - and South Africa, which is an upper middle income country. In each country, research and policy capacity will be built through collaborative partnerships across academic institutions, non-governmental organisations, and policy makers. Through FANRPAN and Chatham House' s inter-governmental policy expertise and platforms, we aim to generate lessons learned from our case-study countries and disseminate them across Africa to contribute to capacity building and evidence-based agricultural transformation through the application of a similar model of evidence into policy in other African countries, and at the regional level.
Levels of undernourishment and malnutrition remain high across the region and current trends show a growing gap between the food needs of a growing population and agricultural productivity. Moreover, in a context of changing climates, and, in many areas, increased incidence of extreme and unprecedented events (notably drought and extreme heat, as well as increasingly extreme rainfall and crop pest infestations), the increased risk of crop failures is exacerbating this challenge. Across Africa, governments recognise that agricultural development and transformation needs to be an engine of economic growth and poverty alleviation, particularly where cycles of low productivity (and periodic crop failures), limited access to resources, and small land holdings lock rural households into cycles of poverty.
Agricultural practice must also contribute to the sustaining of soil, water, biodiversity and more, and is increasingly being targeted as a sector within which we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Achieving sustainable and resilient transformations of agriculture and food systems in Africa is a complex and multi-faceted challenge, which requires novel approaches to research and evidence and new policy and institutional enabling environments. This project sets out to collaboratively build the capacities required across research and policy to tackle this multi-faceted challenge, and help avoid the policy paralysis that in some countries led to little or no progress towards the Millennium Development goals.
The project team, which includes the University of Leeds, University of Aberdeen, the UK Met Office, the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) and Chatham House encompasses expertise in agriculture, climate, ecology, soils, water, post-harvest losses, land use, nutrition and health, rural livelihoods, and policy and institutional analysis. FANRPAN is a multi-stakeholder pan-African network whose mission is to build resilient food systems across Africa through the assessment and creation of food, agriculture and natural resources policies that are both evidence-based and developed in partnership with non-state actors.
We will address research and capacity growth under 3 broad themes: (1) how to make agriculture (and food systems) productive as well as resilient to extreme weather whilst minimising impacts on the environment and maximising its contributions to livelihoods, and food and nutrition (2) as the economic and food-security demands on agriculture change over the next decades, and at the same time weather and climate risks change, what are the feasible ways that agriculture can develop to become more productive in order to meet future needs? (3) how can policy be developed that enables potential sustainable, productive, climate-resilient pathways to be realised in the most inclusive way, thus maximising the contribution of agriculture to achieving the SDGs?
Work will be focused in four countries in SSA: Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia -which are low income countries with varied farming systems - and South Africa, which is an upper middle income country. In each country, research and policy capacity will be built through collaborative partnerships across academic institutions, non-governmental organisations, and policy makers. Through FANRPAN and Chatham House' s inter-governmental policy expertise and platforms, we aim to generate lessons learned from our case-study countries and disseminate them across Africa to contribute to capacity building and evidence-based agricultural transformation through the application of a similar model of evidence into policy in other African countries, and at the regional level.
Planned Impact
Our motivation in this grant is to make a positive difference towards ensuring the implementation of sustainable agricultural development pathways in the face of multiple, sometimes conflicting, needs: sustainability priorities for agriculture and food systems, the changing demands and pressures arising from climate change (and its mitigation and adaptation) and the need for productivity growth to support economic development in SSA. The Malabo declaration of the heads of state of the African Union reaffirmed the key principles of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) which include, among others: a) the pursuit of agriculture-led growth as a main strategy to achieve targets on food and nutrition security and shared prosperity; b) the exploitation of regional complementarities and cooperation to boost growth; c) the application of principles of evidence-based planning, policy efficiency, dialogue, review, and accountability; and (d) the need to build resilience in the face of climate change.
The project is designed to target the building of capacity for research and knowledge exchange to underpin policy and practice, through co-designed activities and research training across UK and African institutions in order to address critical gaps in understanding, within the project and beyond it. This will be achieved through new collaborations and integrated working across UK teams from Leeds (with expertise in food and nutrition security, climate and weather, agriculture, politics, livelihoods, environment), UK Met Office (climate and weather), Aberdeen (land use and climate change, nutrition), Chatham House (policies and governance). The UK teams will work closely in SSA, facilitated by FANRPAN, the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy and Analysis Network (research-into-policy expertise), as well as building on existing relationships of project partners in the four focal countries, for example between the UK Met Office and National Met Services; and between the University of Leeds and Liongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (Malawi), Sokoine University (Tanzania), University of Zambia and Stellenbosch University (SA).
It further aims to build capacities for the management and implementation of ambitious, policy-oriented research (drawing particularly on expertise within the Leeds University Research Innovation Service and the FANRPAN operations team), strengthen mechanisms and forums for evidence-based policy implementation and upscaling, and use evidence to help design policies to deliver sustainable and Climate Smart Agrifood System development. The project represents an investment in a long term strategy for evidence to feed into policy across scales, from initial ' special agricultural zones' within each of the case study countries, into national and regional policy forums (a model with which Chatham House have experience).
This model, and its implementation, will draw in particular on the extensive policy networks and convening power, at a regional level, of FANRPAN and, at an international level, of Chatham House. This includes relationships with on-going initiatives, such as the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), the Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance (ACSAA) and the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA), as well as with the African Union/New Partnership for Africa's Development (AU/NEPAD), Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), and the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA).
The project is designed to target the building of capacity for research and knowledge exchange to underpin policy and practice, through co-designed activities and research training across UK and African institutions in order to address critical gaps in understanding, within the project and beyond it. This will be achieved through new collaborations and integrated working across UK teams from Leeds (with expertise in food and nutrition security, climate and weather, agriculture, politics, livelihoods, environment), UK Met Office (climate and weather), Aberdeen (land use and climate change, nutrition), Chatham House (policies and governance). The UK teams will work closely in SSA, facilitated by FANRPAN, the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy and Analysis Network (research-into-policy expertise), as well as building on existing relationships of project partners in the four focal countries, for example between the UK Met Office and National Met Services; and between the University of Leeds and Liongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (Malawi), Sokoine University (Tanzania), University of Zambia and Stellenbosch University (SA).
It further aims to build capacities for the management and implementation of ambitious, policy-oriented research (drawing particularly on expertise within the Leeds University Research Innovation Service and the FANRPAN operations team), strengthen mechanisms and forums for evidence-based policy implementation and upscaling, and use evidence to help design policies to deliver sustainable and Climate Smart Agrifood System development. The project represents an investment in a long term strategy for evidence to feed into policy across scales, from initial ' special agricultural zones' within each of the case study countries, into national and regional policy forums (a model with which Chatham House have experience).
This model, and its implementation, will draw in particular on the extensive policy networks and convening power, at a regional level, of FANRPAN and, at an international level, of Chatham House. This includes relationships with on-going initiatives, such as the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), the Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance (ACSAA) and the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA), as well as with the African Union/New Partnership for Africa's Development (AU/NEPAD), Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), and the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA).
Organisations
- University of Leeds (Lead Research Organisation)
- Natural Environment Research Council (Co-funder)
- Economic and Social Research Council (Co-funder)
- Sokoine University of Agriculture (Collaboration)
- Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) (Collaboration)
- Agricultural Research Council (ARC) (Collaboration)
- Tanzania Meteorology Agency (Collaboration)
- Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (Collaboration)
- Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services Malawi (Collaboration)
- Malawi Government (Collaboration)
- Government of Zambia (Collaboration)
- Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA (Collaboration)
- Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- Nelson Mandela African Institute for Science and Technology (Collaboration)
Publications
Beattie S
(2021)
How Does Nutrition Feature in Climate-Smart Agricultural Policy in Southern Africa? A Systematic Policy Review
in Sustainability
Benton T
(2019)
The paradox of productivity: agricultural productivity promotes food system inefficiency
in Global Sustainability
Benton, TG
(2019)
Using scenario analyses to address the future of food
Bradshaw C
(2022)
Unprecedented climate extremes in South Africa and implications for maize production
in Environmental Research Letters
Chapman S
(2020)
Impact of climate change on crop suitability in sub-Saharan Africa in parameterized and convection-permitting regional climate models
in Environmental Research Letters
Chapman S
(2023)
Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Rainfall in Eastern Africa in a Convection-Permitting Climate Model
in Journal of Climate
Chapman S
(2021)
Assessing the impact of climate change on soil erosion in East Africa using a convection-permitting climate model
in Environmental Research Letters
Chinseu E
(2019)
An Empirically Derived Conceptual Framework to Assess Dis-Adoption of Conservation Agriculture: Multiple Drivers and Institutional Deficiencies
in Journal of Sustainable Development
Coskeran, HM
(2021)
Effective project support for international research collaboration
Del Bianco M
(2018)
Building a future with root architecture.
in Journal of experimental botany
Dobson R
(2023)
dynamicSDM : An R package for species geographical distribution and abundance modelling at high spatiotemporal resolution
in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Dougill A
(2021)
Evaluating Climate-Smart Agriculture as Route to Building Climate Resilience in African Food Systems
in Sustainability
Eze S
(2022)
Assessing soil system changes under climate-smart agriculture via farmers' observations and conventional soil testing.
in Land degradation & development
Eze S
(2020)
Impacts of conservation agriculture on soil structure and hydraulic properties of Malawian agricultural systems.
in Soil & tillage research
Eze S
(2021)
Farmers' indicators of soil health in the African highlands.
in Catena
Field K
(2020)
Mycorrhizas for a changing world: Sustainability, conservation, and society
in PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET
Galani Y
(2021)
Contamination of Foods from Cameroon with Residues of 20 Halogenated Pesticides, and Health Risk of Adult Human Dietary Exposure
in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Galani YJH
(2022)
A review of micronutrient deficiencies and analysis of maize contribution to nutrient requirements of women and children in Eastern and Southern Africa.
in Critical reviews in food science and nutrition
Galani YJH
(2022)
Effects of combined abiotic stresses on nutrient content of European wheat and implications for nutritional security under climate change.
in Scientific reports
Galani YJH
(2021)
Conservation Agriculture Affects Grain and Nutrient Yields of Maize (Zea Mays L.) and Can Impact Food and Nutrition Security in Sub-Saharan Africa.
in Frontiers in nutrition
Gaworek-Michalczenia M
(2022)
Evaluating the impact of adaptation interventions on vulnerability and livelihood resilience
in Climate and Development
Gaworek-Michalczenia M
(2022)
Evaluating the impact of adaptation interventions on vulnerability and livelihood resilience
in Climate and Development
Hermans T
(2020)
Why we should rethink 'adoption' in agricultural innovation: Empirical insights from Malawi
in Land Degradation & Development
Hermans T
(2020)
Bridging the disciplinary gap in conservation agriculture research, in Malawi. A review
in Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Herrero M
(2020)
Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system
in Nature Food
Herrero M
(2021)
Articulating the effect of food systems innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals.
in The Lancet. Planetary health
Jennings S
(2022)
A New Integrated Assessment Framework for Climate-Smart Nutrition Security in sub-Saharan Africa: The Integrated Future Estimator for Emissions and Diets (iFEED)
in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Kapulu N
(2020)
An evaluation of changes to protein supply in Zambia between 1961 and 2013 shows consistent dominance of plant-based sources
in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
Ledo A
(2019)
A global, empirical, harmonised dataset of soil organic carbon changes under perennial crops.
in Scientific data
Lipper, L
(2020)
Mega-trends in the Southern African region. CCAFS Report
Liu Y
(2021)
Green extraction of polyphenols from citrus peel by-products and their antifungal activity against Aspergillus flavus.
in Food chemistry: X
Liu Y
(2020)
A review of postharvest approaches to reduce fungal and mycotoxin contamination of foods.
in Comprehensive reviews in food science and food safety
Milheiras S
(2022)
Agroecological practices increase farmers' well-being in an agricultural growth corridor in Tanzania
in Agronomy for Sustainable Development
Mittal N
(2021)
Co-designing Indices for Tailored Seasonal Climate Forecasts in Malawi
in Frontiers in Climate
Roychoudhry S
(2022)
Auxin in Root Development.
in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology
Sharma E
(2023)
Stress-induced F-Box protein-coding gene OsFBX257 modulates drought stress adaptations and ABA responses in rice.
in Plant, cell & environment
Shorinola O
(2019)
Genetic Screening for Mutants with Altered Seminal Root Numbers in Hexaploid Wheat Using a High-Throughput Root Phenotyping Platform.
in G3 (Bethesda, Md.)
Smith H
(2021)
Innovation systems and affordances in climate smart agriculture
in Journal of Rural Studies
Smith R
(2022)
Neoliberal ideologies and philanthrocapitalist agendas: what does a 'smart economics' discourse empower?
in Third World Quarterly
| Title | SABC Living Land documentary |
| Description | With support from AFRICAP partners the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) and Economic and Research Foundation (ESRF), the South African Broadcasting Corporation produced an episode of their Living Land documentary on that focused on AFRICAP's work in Tanzania. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | The documentary was screened on SABC 2 on Saturday 28 September and increased awareness among viewers of the programme's work. |
| Title | Tigwirane Manja |
| Description | A participatory documentary film in Mangochi, Malawi documenting local challenges and locally developed solutions. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Impact | Notable impacts are that the group who made the film are currently putting into practice the solutions that they came up with, working with the chiefs and wider community. There were also two main screenings of the film: one in the village in which it was made which was attended by 300-400 people and one in Lilongwe which was attended by 50+ people many of whom work in development for a variety of organisations: notably the head of USAID and several UN department heads. It has also been seen by lots of small groups of development workers, friends and residents of the neighbouring village in Malawi. There are also plans to set up a local cinema in the village where it was made so that the group can continue showing it and show new films. |
| Description | Baseline policy analysis work in our focal countries - which involved policy level interviews and document analysis - revealed that there is a strong emphasis on intensification, innovation and diversification in agriculture and food systems as a means to achieving food security, building climate resilience and achieving export commodity-based economic growth. At our in-country participatory scenarios workshops we engaged with approximately 200 stakeholders to identify the critical uncertainties that shaping future agricultural and food systems in each of our focal countries. While stakeholders in all four countries agreed that climate risk was one of the two most-important uncertainties that will shape the future, the second varied by country 1. Land tenure and reform (little versus radical) (South Africa); 2. Agricultural technology innovation and adoption (weak versus strong) (Tanzania) 3. Market access and functioning local to global (weak versus strong) (Zambia) 4. Policy aligned to deliver food systems outcomes (versus poorly aligned, silo-ed, policy) (Malawi) In the context of plausible alternative futures, we have set out to analyse the value of different policy pathways. This question has been the basis for developing an integrated model-based assessment framework, which combines climate, crop, land use and trade models and national food balance sheets. Our integrated modelling framework was developed in consultation with policy advocacy groups (e.g. the FANRPAN country node organisations) to explore a range of policy-relevant questions that align to our scenarios outcomes - e.g. about technology development, market integration, land use change and more. This highlighted some of the risks and trade-offs involved in pursuing different agricultural and food system strategies. Our analysis showed: • Nutritional deficiencies can be reduced by 2050, although this requires substantial increases to crop yields. Without these increases, nutritional improvements will require agricultural areas to expand and / or increased food imports. • Maize crop failure rates could increase by more than 50% by 2050 under the most optimistic future climate scenarios (RCP 2.6) and more than double under the worse-case scenarios (RCP 8.5). Average maize yields could fall by as much as a quarter under some scenarios. • Increases in precipitation intensities will likely increase soil erosion in Tanzania and Malawi, negatively impacting agricultural yields. Our analysis of climate model performance suggests that there are areas in our focal countries (such as northern and coastal Tanzania), for which rainfall is not well simulated, but that new high resolution convection permitting models (such as CP4 Africa) are improving our simulations and understanding of the distribution of extreme rainfall in the region. Climate model analysis demonstrates the potential for record-breaking extremes in the present-day which could significantly reduce food production, and the increasing probability/severity of climate extremes across southern Africa as the climate continues to warm. Our fieldwork activities have produced more contextualised information about different innovations and agricultural and rural development strategies represented in existing policy. For example, an evaluation of conservation agriculture (a widely promoted agricultural strategy across southern Africa) in on-farm and research station trials in Malawi shows an association with improved maize root structure and soil properties, notably soil structure, water holding capacity and available nitrogen. However, we also find programmatic and socio-economic challenges in encouraging uptake of conservation agriculture practices across countries, and sustaining the beneficial impacts of such practices. Collaborative research on seed systems has revealed strong focus on breeding drought-tolerant and early-maturing varieties of maize. However, our climate impacts analysis suggests that early maturing maize is likely to have sub-optimal biomass accumulation under future climates. Findings from studies of rural community resilience to shocks and extremes (including climate shocks, as well as pest outbreaks, and COVID-19) has shown a relationship between crop profiles and diversity and household nutrition, a relationship mediated by other socio-economic factors. |
| Exploitation Route | The outcomes from iFEED, the integrated assessment framework - for which we have had significant interest - will be used by policy- and decision-makers in the sphere of agri-food systems at both national and regional levels. The modelling results accompanied by qualitative descriptors will allow such stakeholders to consider the future impact of decisions made today on the pathways for agri-food systems in their countries, and how to make such systems more resilient to climate change. As such, these results will continue to inform the programme team's ongoing engagement with policymakers, civil society and other non-academic stakeholders as we move beyond the programme. Although we expect the outcomes to be of most interest in the agriculture, food and drink sector, the prioritisation of climate risk in all four focal countries suggests that the impacts could extend to those in the environmental sector considering the impact of climate variability and change and how to increase resilience to the associated impacts. In Tanzania interest in the outcomes from research conducted in Tanga Region has been expressed by the regional authority to feed into agricultural and development planning. Through the Muheza Learning Alliance there is also potential to feed research into a multi-directional learning process with local actors and co-create new demand-driven research. Beyond policy spheres, research findings may be used by early career academics and students in their research. The household survey data, for example, have been analysed by two University of Leeds Master's students, one in collaboration with a University of Zambia early career academic. Further dissemination of outcomes through channels such as the MOOC and seminar series could extend such opportunities to those outside of the direct GCRF-AFRICAP consortium. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Education,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| URL | https://africap.info/category/news/ |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP has continued to work to achieve impact beyond academia through capacity-building activities both within and outside of the implementing team. External stakeholders that we engaged through our policy-focused activities, including the iFEED taskforces, have commented on our original approach and how this provides a unique perspective on policy processes in their respective countries. The impact of this future work is particularly clear in the recently launched Vision 2063, Malawi's long-term National Development Plan, which includes clear statements on the need to promote soil and water conservation, soil fertility improvement, conservation agriculture and improve area under agroforestry. In Tanzania, the skills training workshop targeted farmers and agriculture extension workers, strengthening capacity in measuring soil health indicators and awareness of crop pests and diseases which can be applied in production. The ensuing study tour with district officials shared knowledge in programme management, monitoring and evaluation as well as pathways to engaging in national policy processes. And the resulting Climate Smart Learning Alliance will ensure this capacity-building work continues to create legacy in the months and years to come. In South Africa, AFRICAP contributed to the National Adaption Strategy which was approved in 2020. There were numerous amendments and new insertions since the May 2019 draft, some of which were issues raised by the AFRICAP team as part of the public participation process in 2019. It is rewarding to see these being taken into account in the final version of the strategy. It is our hope that the iFEED champions we have engaged in each of our four focal countries and at the regional level will continue to disseminate outputs in this area. Within our team, capacity has been built in the administration and management of research projects of this scale. The results of the Partner Institutional Viability Assessment conducted in our four main partner organisations in January and February 2020 were used to create a capacity-building plan for the remainder of the programme, for which implementation has now been completed. The activities implemented as part of this programme have further increased those organisations' ability to attract and manage research grants of this nature in the future. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Other |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | ACF inputs on Zambia national budget |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Attendance by FANRPAN CEO at 15th partnership platform meeting for the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | CISANET - Malawi National Priorities Project |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | CISANET invited to join Malawi's National Resilience Strategy taskforce |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Contribution to "The Implementation Guidelines for the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Plan for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (CCAMP)", following invitation by The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) in South Africa. |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | FANRPAN CEO attendance at meeting of the African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA) |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | FANRPAN input to South African Development Community (SADC) revision of regional strategy |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Guidance on monitoring and evaluation framework for Balaka resilience strategy |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Membership of the BBSRC Horticultural Quality and Food Loss Network |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://foodlossnetwork.com/ |
| Description | NAMC participation in climate-proofing South Africa's National Agriculture Masterplan |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Participation of PI and Co-I in review of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.ipcc.ch/report/srccl/ |
| Description | Policy advisory note - Zambia |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Policy design and engagement meeting with the Tanzania Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance (TCSAA) |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | SADC Thematic Group on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Submission by AFRICAP Lead Partner and Country Node on the Draft National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy of South Africa |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Submission by AFRICAP Lead Partner and Country Node to the Director General of Environmental Affairs for the South African Climate Change bill |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Zambia oil seeds study |
| Geographic Reach | Africa |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | membership of UK Trade and Ag Commission Standards Working Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The Trade and Ag Commission was set up to offer independent advice to HMG about trade in agricultural goods. I was invited onto the committee to represent environmental sustainability and due to knowledge of the impacts of trade on low and middle income countries (to represent equitable outcomes for L and MICs), for which AFRICAP provided rich information. |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/trade-and-agriculture-commission-tac/trade-and-agricultur... |
| Description | membership of UK's Global Resource Initiative Taskforce on sustainable supply chains |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | The GRI Taskforce was an independent advisory committee to HMG about sustainable supply chains, particularly for agricultural commodities. It reported in March 2020, and its recommendations form part of COP26 Nature Campaign (the FACT dialogue) and an approach to due-diligence in ensuring forest-free supply chains. |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/global-resource-initiative-taskforce |
| Description | ARUA (African Research Universities Alliance)-UKRI Partnership Programme for Capacity Building research excellence call |
| Amount | £1,941,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | Agri-systems research to enhance livelihoods in developing countries |
| Amount | £520,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2019 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Allocation for Global Challenge Research - University of Leeds |
| Amount | £153,018 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2019 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | CHAMNHA Climate, heat and maternal and neonatal health in Africa |
| Amount | £80,788 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/T01363X/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | ClimBeR: Building Systemic Resilience Against Climate Variability and Extremes |
| Amount | £34,000,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | CGIAR |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | France |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 12/2025 |
| Description | Conference funding Agriculture & Land Use Planning Officer, Muheza District,Tanzania |
| Amount | £1,200 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Adaptation Futures Conference |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| Country | South Africa |
| Start | 06/2018 |
| End | 06/2018 |
| Description | Crop Residue Management Strategies for Climate-Smart Agriculture in West Africa |
| Amount | £74,766 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | FCG\R1\211025 |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | FCDO funding via the Food Foundation: COVID-19, supply chains and lower income countries |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2020 |
| End | 02/2021 |
| Description | GCRF Challenge Clusters - African Food Systems Transformation and Justice Challenge Cluster |
| Amount | £127,354 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T02397X/1 |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Description | GCRF Challenge Clusters - Scaling up biocontrol innovations in Africa |
| Amount | £127,663 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T024410/1 |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Description | GCRF Challenge Clusters Call: Bridging national strategy on sustainable development of water-energy-food systems to local needs in Malawi |
| Amount | £148,013 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T024887/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2020 |
| End | 04/2021 |
| Description | Improving Preparedness to Agro-Climatic Extremes in Malawi (IPACE-Malawi) |
| Amount | £252,820 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/S005900/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | Interdisciplinary PhDs: The Ethics of Climate Services |
| Amount | £51,650 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Department | Priestley International Centre for Climate |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | NERC Panorama Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship Award |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2022 |
| End | 03/2026 |
| Description | QR GCRF |
| Amount | £85,277 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Global Challenges Research Fund |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | SHEAR |
| Amount | £252,820 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/S005900/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | Smart integration of animals and crops to survive climate change in Africa |
| Amount | £125,719 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T024356/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 05/2021 |
| Description | Social innovations for equitable and climate resilient landscapes in Africa |
| Amount | £174,773 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/V003208/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | UK-China-Global Education Partnership Fund (previously the UK-China-BRI Countries Partnership Fund) |
| Amount | £71,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2019 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | WUN Research Development Fund |
| Amount | £22,240 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Worldwide Universities Network |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2019 |
| End | 11/2019 |
| Description | What to plant, when and where? - designing integrated forest-agricultural landscapes to enhance multiple livelihood benefits to and from agriculture |
| Amount | £576,529 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BB/S014586/1 |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2019 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) CCAFS funds - Climate Smart Agriculture Compendium |
| Amount | £78,079 (GBP) |
| Organisation | World Agroforestry Centre |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | Kenya |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2019 |
| Title | Climate forecast analysis manuals |
| Description | University of Leeds and UK Met Office, in collaboration with the Malawi Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services, the Zambia Meteorological Department, and the Tanzania Meteorology Agency, have developed three manuals for running analysis of agricultural variables within climate model data. These cover the following: o Reading in on-station observation data (for purposes of model skill testing) o Evaluating CORDEX data skill o Climate scenario analysis of agro-climatic varibales |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | These are being used to guide ongoing capacity building activities with the Met Agency partners in Zambia, Tanzania, and Malawi, which will include a training workshop in March 2020. |
| Title | Cradle-to-Grave research management toolkit |
| Description | The Cradle-to-Grave toolkit was created under the International Research Management Staff Development Programme with the AFRICAP Programme Manager as co-PI. Forty participants from across the world were invited to attend the workshops and share knowledge and best practice in the above areas. The team then used the workshop contents to create a toolkit containing templates for research management professionals to use throughout the programme life cycle. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This creates a central resource for research managers across the globe and shares best practice learning from a range of global challenges programmes, including AFRICAP. |
| URL | https://arma.ac.uk/cradle-to-grave-a-research-and-programme-management-knowledge-sharing-series/ |
| Title | Household survey |
| Description | The household survey has resulted from a tool owned by FANRPAN known as the Household Assets and Vulnerability Assessment. Building on this, GCRF-AFRICAP team members from FANRPAN, University of Leeds and the University of Aberdeen have contributed to the design of a new survey which aims to capture baseline data for the study to allow outcomes to be measured at programme end and beyond. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The survey is expansive as it captures information on: household demographics; agriculture land holding; crop cultivation systems; fertiliser inputs; irrigation inputs; land management techniques; livestock systems; household wellbeing and assets; household nutrition and dietary diversity; the presence of aflatoxins; and resilience to shocks. |
| Title | Seed systems survey |
| Description | As part of conducting research on climate resilient seed systems, a short survey was designed to collect data responses from those involved in seed system activity (e.g. gene/seed banks, crop breeders, regulators, seed companies, agrodealers, extension officers, farmers) across Africa. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | 234 responses were received which will allow a database of information on this area to be created. |
| URL | https://leeds.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/gcrf-africap-seed-systems-survey |
| Title | Soil binding assay |
| Description | Allows users to determine capacity of root exudates to bind soil, form aggregates etc. |
| Type Of Material | Biological samples |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Publication: Akhtar J, Galloway AF, Nikolopoulos G, Field KJ, Knox JP. (2018) A quantitative method for the high throughput screening for the soil adhesion properties of plant and microbial polysaccharides and exudates. Plant and Soil 1-2: 57-65 doi: 10.1007/s11104-018-3670-1 |
| Title | iFEED integrated assessment framework |
| Description | We developed a novel integrated assessment framework that combines models with in-country knowledge and expert academic judgement to identify and explore climate-smart and nutrition-secure food system futures: the integrated Future Estimator for Emissions and Diets (iFEED). iFEED has been applied in Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. The iFEED process begins with a participatory scenario workshop. In-country stakeholders identify two key drivers of food system change, and from these, four possible scenarios are defined. These scenarios provide the underlying narratives of change to the food system. Integrated modelling of climate change, food production and greenhouse gas emissions is then used to explore nutrition security and climate-smart agriculture outcomes for each scenario. Model results are summarised using calibrated statements - quantitative statements of model outcomes and our confidence in them. These include statements about the way in which different trade futures interact with climate change and domestic production in determining nutrition security at the national level. To understand what the model results mean for food systems, the calibrated statements are then expanded upon using implication statements. The implications rely on input from a wide range of academic experts - including agro-ecologists and social scientists. A series of workshops are used to incorporate in-country expertise, identifying any gaps in knowledge and summarising information for country-level recommendations. iFEED stakeholder champions help throughout by providing in-country expertise and disseminating knowledge to policy makers. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | iFEED provides information to support evidence-based decisions for a climate-smart and nutrition-secure future. Modelling outputs include projections of food production, greenhouse gas emissions and soil organic carbon, and assessments of nutrition security for contrasting scenario. Implications are on topics including pests and diseases, water use, aflatoxins and the food system social content. In particular, iFEED: i. employs novel and inclusive reporting of model results and associated in-country food system activities, with comprehensive reporting of uncertainty; ii. includes climate change mitigation alongside adaptation measures; and iii. quantifies future population-level nutrition security, as opposed to simply assessing future production and food security implications. The iFEED website is used as a platform to disseminate iFEED results, making these available for policy-makers in each AFRICAP country. |
| URL | https://ifeed.leeds.ac.uk/ |
| Title | Estimated energy, macronutrient and micronutrient supply for Zambia 1961 to 2013 - Raw data |
| Description | The dataset contains Zambia's per capita nutrient supply data for dietary energy, protein, fat, carbohydrate, fibre, vitamin B12, vitamin A, vitamin C, thiamine, niacin, folate, riboflavin, zinc, iron and calcium from 1961 to 2013. The data are based on estimated supply data from the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) food balance sheets, which was linked to food items from the West African and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) food composition tables, and adjusted for regional household food waste data, including household food expenditure from a 2015 Living Conditions and Monitoring Survey, and a Zambian price index. The dataset contains information on nutrient supplies for individual food items and food commodity groups per capita. Columns are organised according to food commodity groups as they appear in FAO food balance sheets. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://archive.researchdata.leeds.ac.uk/1025/ |
| Title | Household survey database |
| Description | In 2019, the AFRICAP household vulnerability survey was conducted in our four focal countries - Malawi (404 households), South Africa (398), Tanzania (428) and Zambia (401). In each country, households were surveyed on a range of topics including: access to land and condition of land; household farming systems including crop and livestock cultivation; household well-being, income and assets; responses to unexpected weather events; and household nutrition. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This database is being used by a range of researchers across the AFRICAP team to produce papers on the topics covered. These publications will be used in the policy engagement and derisking activities that the team is implementing in the four focal countries. |
| Description | Accession agreement of Country Node organisations |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) |
| Country | Tanzania, United Republic of |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | University of Leeds staff engage directly with Country Node organisations on co-design and delivery of research and management and logistics of programme events. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Country Node organisations lead processes regarding focal crops and locations for in-country research and identifying and recruiting relevant stakeholders. |
| Impact | This collaboration has resulted in: - 'Submission by AFRICAP Lead Partner and Country Node to the Director General of Environmental Affairs for the South African Climate Change bill (2018)'; - 'Zambia meeting with stakeholders' - 'Press coverage of Malawi kick-off event' - 'Stakeholder workshop (Lilongwe, Malawi)' - 'Stakeholder workshop (Bloemfontein, South Africa)' - 'Stakeholder workshop (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)' - 'Stakeholder workshop (Lusaka, Zambia)' - 'High-level breakfast (Lilongwe, Malawi)' - 'Participatory scenarios workshop (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)' - 'Participatory scenarios workshop (Lusaka, Zambia)'. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Agricultural Research Council (ARC) - South Africa |
| Organisation | Agricultural Research Council (ARC) |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Agricultural Research Council, South Africa is a premier science institution that conducts research with partners, develops human capital and fosters innovation to support and develop the agricultural sector. The AFRICAP PDRA Ecology, Ecosystem Services visited ARC's facilities in October 2019 to initiate partnership discussions. Following this visit the Co-I WP #6 (also the AFRICAP Country Coordinator for South Africa) and the AFRICAP PDRA Ecology, Ecosystem Services approved ARC as a suitable collaborating partner. The £11,162 budget is allocated from the overall WP #6 budget. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ARC are contributing to project objective: Farming Systems (Theme A) Work Package #6 'Ecological and economic flows between commercial and smallholder agriculture in South Africa'. ARC's project activities include insect biomonitoring in a Free State agro-ecological zone, South Africa. The research objective is to establish the biodiversity of insects as impacted upon by agricultural practices and climate change. |
| Impact | The summary Terms of Reference for ARC are as follows: • ARC-SGI to carry out this study through 4 field surveys from 2020. Each field survey will be for a period of 4-6 weeks starting as per the below given schedule: January 2020 March 2020 May 2020 July 2020 • The surveys will be carried out by 2 teams consisting of 2 Research Assistants (RAs) each. Both teams will be supervised by Dr. Astrid Jankielsohn (AJ) who will accompany the teams in the field for 5 days during each survey period. For the tasks in lab, AJ will be monitor the progress of teams throughout. • During each field survey the two teams will carry out (i) visual assays of crop growth stage, pests and diseases, (ii) installation and retrieval of pitfall and sticky traps, and (iii) sample processing and first level morpho sorting. • Between two surveys (2-3 weeks), the team will carry out (i) second level sample processing - identification or morpho species, and (ii) restocking the required equipment and consumables. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CCAFS/ILRI |
| Organisation | Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Developing a climate risk analysis for the South African Development Community (SADC) region |
| Collaborator Contribution | Using AFRICAP scenarios activity and other work to inform the development of scenarios work at the regional level (SADC) |
| Impact | To date, the AFRICAP co-I acting as consultant for this collaboration has engaged with ILRI, CCAFS and other stakeholders involved in the African Climate Change for Rural Areas (ACCRA) initiative to find connections between AFRICAP results and SADC and partner needs. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Learning Platform |
| Organisation | Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | CGIAR is The Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) generates evidence and supports adoption of climate-smart agricultural policies, practices, and services that alleviate poverty, increase gender equity, and support sustainable landscapes. In November 2018, a cross-section of AFRICAP research scientists and social scientist hosted the first meeting of the CCAFS Learning Platform to explore scaling up climate-smart agriculture: challenges and opportunities. The event, to launch a new "learning platform" at the Priestley International Centre for Climate with CCAFS, saw experts from different disciplines and organisations coming together to discuss scaling up climate-smart agriculture and establish priorities for action. |
| Collaborator Contribution | David Howlett, the chair of AFRICAP's Strategic Advisory Board is actively involved with CCAFS and participated as a panel member in the panel discussions at the Nov'18 event. CCAFS passed due diligence with University of Leeds in October 2018, opening up opportunity for AFRICAP to engage with new downstream partners under the CCAFS umbrella, including the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), which provides AFRICAP researchers with access to the 'Climate Smart Village', a significant CSA initiative over the last 10 years in Tanga region, Tanzania. AFRICAP is facilitated in Tanzania by the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), which is networking and strengthening longer term links with ILRI to coordinate scaling up of CSA activities. |
| Impact | The CCAFS Learning Platform seeks to improve the understanding of challenges and opportunities to scale up CSA. The Learning Platform is the central mechanism for cohesion at national, regional and global levels; and manages global and continental-wide partnerships and impact pathways for climate change policy. The Learning Platform will be hosted at the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, and priority actions are decided by an action group exploring further collaborations in: - policy engagement, e.g. a policy brief on "The missing middle - a key institutional challenge for Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) policy implementation and upscaling" - fundraising - outcome and impact assessment A number of AFRICAP research academics are part of the CCAFS Learning Platform action group. Quality Related research QR GCRF funding award September 2019, £54k, collaboration between CCAFS, UoL and FANRPAN. Title: Harnessing computational engineering expertise to develop online tools to translate state-of-the-science climate and diets information for the benefit of African users. Abstract: The GCRF AFRICAP programme is undertaking state-of-the-science diets, impacts and mitigation in Sub-Saharan Africa. This work combines quantitative data on climate risk, crop production and land use with qualitative data from trade analysis. The QR GCRF award covers the development and trialling of a user interface to allow stakeholders to interact with scenarios depicting different climate smart agriculture futures. The outcome will be a tool that policy makers will use to influence policies for developing sustainable climate smart agriculture. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Learning Platform |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Department | School of Earth and Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CGIAR is The Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers. The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) generates evidence and supports adoption of climate-smart agricultural policies, practices, and services that alleviate poverty, increase gender equity, and support sustainable landscapes. In November 2018, a cross-section of AFRICAP research scientists and social scientist hosted the first meeting of the CCAFS Learning Platform to explore scaling up climate-smart agriculture: challenges and opportunities. The event, to launch a new "learning platform" at the Priestley International Centre for Climate with CCAFS, saw experts from different disciplines and organisations coming together to discuss scaling up climate-smart agriculture and establish priorities for action. |
| Collaborator Contribution | David Howlett, the chair of AFRICAP's Strategic Advisory Board is actively involved with CCAFS and participated as a panel member in the panel discussions at the Nov'18 event. CCAFS passed due diligence with University of Leeds in October 2018, opening up opportunity for AFRICAP to engage with new downstream partners under the CCAFS umbrella, including the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), which provides AFRICAP researchers with access to the 'Climate Smart Village', a significant CSA initiative over the last 10 years in Tanga region, Tanzania. AFRICAP is facilitated in Tanzania by the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), which is networking and strengthening longer term links with ILRI to coordinate scaling up of CSA activities. |
| Impact | The CCAFS Learning Platform seeks to improve the understanding of challenges and opportunities to scale up CSA. The Learning Platform is the central mechanism for cohesion at national, regional and global levels; and manages global and continental-wide partnerships and impact pathways for climate change policy. The Learning Platform will be hosted at the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, and priority actions are decided by an action group exploring further collaborations in: - policy engagement, e.g. a policy brief on "The missing middle - a key institutional challenge for Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) policy implementation and upscaling" - fundraising - outcome and impact assessment A number of AFRICAP research academics are part of the CCAFS Learning Platform action group. Quality Related research QR GCRF funding award September 2019, £54k, collaboration between CCAFS, UoL and FANRPAN. Title: Harnessing computational engineering expertise to develop online tools to translate state-of-the-science climate and diets information for the benefit of African users. Abstract: The GCRF AFRICAP programme is undertaking state-of-the-science diets, impacts and mitigation in Sub-Saharan Africa. This work combines quantitative data on climate risk, crop production and land use with qualitative data from trade analysis. The QR GCRF award covers the development and trialling of a user interface to allow stakeholders to interact with scenarios depicting different climate smart agriculture futures. The outcome will be a tool that policy makers will use to influence policies for developing sustainable climate smart agriculture. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Collaboration agreement signed by four UK partners and FANRPAN |
| Organisation | Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | University of Leeds leads the GCRF-AFRICAP consortium and has to date contributed the following: - Establishing programme support team (programme executive officer and programme support officer) to work with PI and researchers at all partner organisations on programme administration, management and logistics; - Theme Leads and Country Coordinators are based at Leeds and have led on the co-design and delivery of research work in Themes A and B; the organisation of kick-off meetings and participatory scenarios workshops in Theme C; and cross-programme training and capacity-building in Theme D. |
| Collaborator Contribution | - FANRPAN hosts the project co-lead (CEO) and Regional Policy Officer (part of the programme support team). The Monitoring and Evaluation Officer works with the Leeds-based Programme Support Officer on M&E activities and research methodology experts collaborate on survey design and implementation. The Policy Advocacy & Partnerships Manager has contributed to the website design and launch; - Four colleagues at University of Aberdeen have contributed to household survey design and the Theme B modelling work; - Three colleagues at Chatham House have contributed to the scenarios work; - Three colleagues at UK Met Office have led discussions with met offices in the four focal countries on research areas of mutual interest and two have attended the participatory scenarios workshops. |
| Impact | This is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between two universities and three other research organisations. At UoL, academics involved in the programme come from five Faculties: Biological Sciences; Education, Social Sciences and Law (ESSL); Engineering; Environment; and Maths and Physical Sciences (MAPS). At UoA, experts involved in GCRF-AFRICAP include health and nutrition researchers based in the Institute of Applied Health Sciences and plant and soil science researchers based in the Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences. At UK Met Office, researchers include climate science and international development experts. At FANRPAN, experts on policy and research methods are involved. Outputs of these collaborations specifically to date include 'Household survey' (in 'Research tools and methods'); 'Design and launch of GCRF-AFRICAP programme website' (see 'Engagement activities'); and 'Cheney Fellowship (2018)' (see 'Awards and recognition'). |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Cross-country Met Agency partnership |
| Organisation | Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services Malawi |
| Country | Malawi |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We have contributed to a training programme on the analysis of climate and weather forecast model skill, this has involved the co-development and running of scripts to analyse historical and forecast data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of the partnering agencies have participated in the identification of key climate variables for analysis, shared input data from their meteorological station networks, and run and adapted the scripts. We have co-organised a workshop that will take place in March 2020. |
| Impact | We have developed three manuals for: (1) Reading in on-station observation data (for purposes of model skill testing); (2) Evaluating CORDEX data skill; and (3) Climate scenario analysis. These are listed under 'Research Tools and Methods' |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Cross-country Met Agency partnership |
| Organisation | Government of Zambia |
| Department | Zambian Meteorological Department |
| Country | Zambia |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We have contributed to a training programme on the analysis of climate and weather forecast model skill, this has involved the co-development and running of scripts to analyse historical and forecast data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of the partnering agencies have participated in the identification of key climate variables for analysis, shared input data from their meteorological station networks, and run and adapted the scripts. We have co-organised a workshop that will take place in March 2020. |
| Impact | We have developed three manuals for: (1) Reading in on-station observation data (for purposes of model skill testing); (2) Evaluating CORDEX data skill; and (3) Climate scenario analysis. These are listed under 'Research Tools and Methods' |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Cross-country Met Agency partnership |
| Organisation | Tanzania Meteorology Agency |
| Country | Tanzania, United Republic of |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | We have contributed to a training programme on the analysis of climate and weather forecast model skill, this has involved the co-development and running of scripts to analyse historical and forecast data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Each of the partnering agencies have participated in the identification of key climate variables for analysis, shared input data from their meteorological station networks, and run and adapted the scripts. We have co-organised a workshop that will take place in March 2020. |
| Impact | We have developed three manuals for: (1) Reading in on-station observation data (for purposes of model skill testing); (2) Evaluating CORDEX data skill; and (3) Climate scenario analysis. These are listed under 'Research Tools and Methods' |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Department for Agricultural Research Services (DARS), Malawi |
| Organisation | Government of Malawi |
| Department | Department of Agricultural Research Services |
| Country | Malawi |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | GCRF-AFRICAP researchers with a focus on Malawi interact regularly with DARS staff members on the running of the trial while Country Node CISANET provides on-the-ground support. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Department for Agricultural Research Services has been contracted to run a three-year conservation agriculture trial at the Chitedze Research Station in Malawi. Staff members also attended and participated in the country-kick off meeting in July 2018. |
| Impact | Field trial results. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Food Systems Research Network for Africa |
| Organisation | University of Pretoria |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Co-investigator and part of the core academic leadership team for the research network. |
| Collaborator Contribution | I am responsible for the research leadership training elements of the FS-Net Fellowship programme and actively mentor one of the 20 FSNet Fellows. |
| Impact | New multi- and trans-disciplinary research network with formal partners in 10 African Universities. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Links to South Africa's Agricultural Research Council |
| Organisation | Agricultural Research Council (ARC) |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Our team developed protocols, organized field surveys and co-supervised field staff. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided farmer contacts, recruited field staff, co-supervised their activities, and supervised specimen identification. |
| Impact | Networks of farmer contacts, agronomic expertise, Taxonomic expertise: allowed successful assays of Conservation Agriculture impacts on soils, crop pests and insect biodiversity. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) - Tanzania |
| Organisation | Sokoine University of Agriculture |
| Country | Tanzania, United Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | During the March 2019 Scoping Visit to Tanzania, two of the three AFRICAP UoL researchers visited SUA with the Tanzania Country Coordinator to meet corresponding academic staff at SUA and commence discussion on collaborating in AFRICAP field research. The AFRICAP Soil Science PDRA visited SUA in August 2019. Following these visits the Co-I WP #3 and three AFRICAP UoL researchers approved SUA as a suitable collaborating partner. The £29,150 budget is allocated from the overall WP #3 budget. |
| Collaborator Contribution | SUA are contributing to project objective: Farming Systems (Theme A) Work Package #3 'Assessment of models of Climate Smart Agricultural Food System (CSAFS) innovation and intervention in Tanzania'. SUA is the leading university in Tanzania contributing to the national, regional and global developmental agenda in areas of agriculture, forestry, natural resources, animal and public health, nutrition and environment. Their research policy priorities are focused on finding sustainable solutions and advancing knowledge to address national, African regional and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) related to food security and agriculture, forestry, natural resource management, animal and public health, agribusiness, market and entrepreneurship, education and information technology. SUA are keen to develop strong collaborative research linkages with the UoLeeds in the fields of food, agriculture, climate change and sustainability. |
| Impact | Three researchers from University of Leeds (UoL) have developed their AFRICAP research plans in collaboration with academic personnel at the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), as follows. 1. (AFRICAP Co-I, Lecturer in Animal Production Science, School of Biology): An assessment of climate-smart smallholder dairy production in the Tanga Region of Tanzania. Summary terms of reference: • To manage and ensure the proficient analysis of the livestock samples, namely forage, maize bran and milk samples. • To provide the results of these analyses in a timely manner. • To offer advice on the livestock work. 2. (AFRICAP PDRA Ecology, Ecosystem Services): Climate Smart Agriculture in East Usambara Mountains: Implications for crop pests and diseases, and trade-offs with biodiversity. Summary terms of reference: • Lab work support: to characterise colonization density of fungal and nematode communities and preservation and curation of insect specimens. • Selection of two Graduate-level Research Assistants for field sampling of pest and biocontrol species and root mycorrhiza in 80 farms in Tanzania (August and November 2019, January, March, May, and July 2020). • Logistical support: The two Research Assistants (RAs) will support in carrying out the following tasks: Establish sampling station in 80 fields in East Usambara (August 2019); collect the ecological data at sampling station in fields to analyse pest and biocontrol species and root samples; carry out farm structure and pest perception surveys; and collect information about farming practices. 3. (AFRICAP Soil Science PDRA): Climate-Smart Agriculture and Soil Health in Tanzanian Mountain Systems: Empirical Evidence and Farmers' Perceptions. Summary terms of reference: • A student from SUA will be trained to replicate the soil work in other upland sites in Tanzania. • The soil samples collected by the student will be analysed at the Soil laboratory in Sokoine University for pH, organic carbon, total nitrogen, available phosphorus and nitrogen, exchangeable cations, texture, bulk density and aggregate stability. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) - Mlingano - Tanzania |
| Organisation | Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute |
| Department | TARI-Mlingano |
| Country | Tanzania, United Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | In March 2019, a team of 9 UoLeeds academics from a range of disciplines conducted a scoping visit to Tanzania to focus on partnership development, capacity building of attendees and research co-design achieved through field visits and research co-design workshops. The AFRICAP Co-I leading Work Package (WP) #2 (also Executive Dean of Faculty of Environment and Professor of Environmental Sustainability - including soil science) visited TARI Mlingano to explore and initiate partnership for soils research. Following this visit the Co-I WP #2 and AFRICAP Soil Science PDRA approved TARI Mlingano as a suitable collaborating partner. The £4.5k budget is allocated from the overall WP #2 budget. |
| Collaborator Contribution | TARI Mlingano are contributing to project objective: Farming Systems (Theme A) Work Package #2 'Evaluating Conservation Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania', which is a study of conservation agriculture practices and their impacts on key soil characteristics that determine maize production in Malawi and Tanzania. TARI Mlingano are supporting field research in Tanzania by the AFRICAP Soil Science PDRA and the summary Terms of Reference (ToR) are as follows: The Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) was established by the Parliamentary Act No. 10 of 2016 to enhance the strengthening of agricultural research system in Tanzania. TARI as a semi-autonomous body under the Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for all agricultural research activities conducted by the National Agricultural Research System (NARS) in the country. TARI Mlingano is one of TARI's 8 Centres and 10 sub-centres located in different agro-ecological zones. |
| Impact | • A research assistant (RA) with basic knowledge of soil science will be selected from TARI Mlingano. The RA will help with soil sampling and interpretations during soil interviews and discussions with farmers. • Soil samples collected from Farmer Field School (FFS) plots will be analysed for pH, organic carbon, total nitrogen, available phosphorus and nitrogen, exchangeable cations, texture, bulk density and aggregate stability at TARI Mlingano Soil laboratory. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) - Tanzania |
| Organisation | Nelson Mandela African Institute for Science and Technology |
| Country | Tanzania, United Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The AFRICAP Co-I of work package #4 (also Professor, School of Food Science and Nutrition) has approved NM-AIST as a suitable collaborating partner, through building on existing academic research relationship with NM-AIST from a previous HEFCE funded project in 2018 entitled 'Assessment of aflatoxin exposure in infants and children of Tanzania'. The £6,555 budget is allocated from the overall WP #4 budget. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology NM-AIST are contributing to project objective: Farming Systems (Theme A) Work Package #1 'Household Survey' and work package #4 'Evaluation of the ecological, environmental and agronomical determinants of aflatoxin contamination and nutrient content of Maize in Tanzania and Malawi'. NM-AIST are carrying out the second household survey in Tanga region, Tanzania. The research objective is to understand the seasonal and annual variation of aflatoxin/nutrition and diet in the selected locations in Tanzania. This mini household survey will be done as part of Work package (WP) A.1. GCRF-AFRICAP carried out its first big household survey in July 2019 in Tanga region, Tanzania. This second survey plans to cover 100 households from the districts of Muheza-Tongwe, Korogwe-Kerenge and Lushoto-Kwemakame. NM-AIST has worked on food safety projects focusing on mycotoxins specifically aflatoxins and fumonisins. NM-AIST has experience in conducting surveys, including major surveys in Singida region under the Singida Nutrition and Agroecology Project (SNAP) over the past 4years. NM-AIST is also involved in the Mycotoxin Mitigation Trial (MMT) project, currently going on in Dodoma, Tanzania. |
| Impact | A summary of the Terms of Reference is as follows: 1) NM-AIST to carry out preparation activities: (i) tools preparation for survey and sample collection (Dr Haikael Martin and Dr Neema Kassim), (ii) training of 3 Research Assistants (RAs) on how to carry out the Food Frequency Questionnaire (Dr Haikael Martin), and (iii) training of 3 RAs on sample collection for mycotoxin analysis (Dr Neema Kassim). 2) NM-AIST to carry out a survey of 100 households using a Food Frequency Questionnaire to assess the dietary intake of maize based foods. The households will be selected in conjunction with the University of Leeds (UoL) from households surveyed in the first survey in July 2019 in the districts of Muheza-Tongwe (33 households), Korogwe-Kerenge (33 households) and Lushoto-Kwemakame (34 households), Tanga region, Tanzania. 3) NM-AIST to collect the following samples from the same households: 1. between 100 - 120 maize samples 2. 50 milk samples 3. 50 maize bran samples 4. 50 leaf samples 4) The surveys will be carried out by a team of 3 Research Assistants (RAs) supervised by Dr. Haikael D. Martin who will accompany the team in the field for the 2 weeks duration of the survey. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Title | Extreme Value Analysis |
| Description | R code to perform extreme value analysis on weather station observations, incorporating the effect of regionally important modes of natural climate variability such as the Indian Ocean Dipole |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This code is currently being tested by partners at the Tanzania Meteorology Agency, the Zambia Meteorology Department and the Malawi Department for Climate Change and Meteorological Services |
| Title | Processing weather station observations |
| Description | R code to read in and process weather station observations, calculating wet season characteristics |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This code is currently being tested by partners at the Tanzania Meteorology Agency, the Zambia Meteorology Department and the Malawi Department for Climate Change and Meteorological Services. |
| Title | Unprecedented Simulated Extremes Using Ensembles (UNSEEN) |
| Description | Python code for analysis decadal climate model simulations to explore the characteristics of unprecedented temperature extremes in sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Impact | This is the first time the UNSEEN method has been applied to Africa. |
| Description | 12 templates for sustainable international research management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The AFRICAP Programme Manager was asked to co-author a piece for the GCRF-Newton impact blog on the learning from developing a cradle-to-grave toolkit under the International Research Management Staff Development Programme. This allowed us to share our experiences with the wider UK audience in global challenges research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.newton-gcrf.org/impact/data-insights-blog/12-templates-for-sustainable-international-res... |
| Description | ACF meeting on NAIP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Country node the Agricultural Consultative Forum (ACF) attended a meeting on the National Agriculture Investment Plan (NAIP) process to determine potential AFRICAP input into this process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ACF workshop on proteins in the Zambian diet |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This workshop aimed to understand key nutrition gaps in Zambia by consulting with local experts, specifically to: • understand how national-level policy and Agri-food system transitions have shaped the supply of protein in Zambia • identify alternative/complementary protein sources (e.g. insects, pulses, oil crops) including implications for policy and nutrition; and • identify potential tradeoffs and risks to dietary protein supply and explore ways forward to build capacities required to achieve a productive, sustainable, resilient and nutrition-sensitive Agri-food system. The event also identified potential pathways for improving intake of quality protein in Zambia, which included: • Policy issues needing intervention were identified: these are nutrition education and integration of nutrition-sensitive agriculture in the draft national agriculture policy. • Promote affordable, locally available protein-dense foods, especially among the poor, e.g. insects, pulses, soybean, small-fish. • Create more visibility of nutrition-sensitive agriculture/nutrition by mainstreaming messages through schools and local champions. Key messages shared with the audience included: • AFRICAP Project's objectives, activities and key achievements to date, in Zambia. • A presentation by an AFRICAP-aligned doctoral student ton the sources of dietary protein in Zambia, the supply trends, including implications for policy and nutrition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | AFRICAP blog post |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog post describing planned research in Tanzania |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://africap.info/add-salt-to-the-soil-is-there-a-need-for-language-innovation-in-climate-smart-a... |
| Description | AFRICAP blog post |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Blog post describing my involvement with the participatory scenario workshops in the four AFRICAP focal countries of Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | AFRICAP blog post - AFRICAP in Malawi: Scoping research and strengthening partnerships |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A representative of our Malawian country node organisation, Civil Society Agriculture Network (CISANET) and a Leeds-based GCRF-AFRICAP postdoctoral research associate authored a blogpost on a research scoping trip they conducted in Malawi in January 2019. TThe post aimed to describe and communicate this work to a non-expert audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/africap-in-malawi-scoping-research-and-strengthening-partnerships/ |
| Description | AFRICAP blog post - Experiences of the 2015-16 El Niño |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | One of the GCRF-AFRICAP co-Investigators authored a blogpost on the relevance of results from another research programme on lessons learned in long-term resilience from the 2015-16 El Niño and how these findings relate to the four focal countries in GCRF-AFRICAP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/experiences-of-the-2015-16-el-nino-from-across-the-tropics-highlight-the-import... |
| Description | AFRICAP blog post - Interview with a climate scientist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | One of the GCRF-AFRICAP postdoctoral research associates authored an introductory blogpost on climate modelling. This resulted from another engagement activity reported here (knowledge-sharing seminar, 30 January 2019) in which GCRF-AFRICAP climate modelling work was presented. The post aimed to describe and communicate this work to a non-expert audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/climate-modelling-101/ |
| Description | AGRF Chatham House meeting on the future of African food systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We organised a discussion meeting between stakeholders (political decision makers, practitioners, farmer organisations and researchers/facilitators) to discuss scenarios for the future of African agriculture as a side-event to the AGRF. Partly showcasing AFRICAP, it was about engaging key stakeholders with non-business-as-usual thinking about drivers for the future, and that agri-food systems may evolve away from the past decade's "business as usual" framings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | AGU 2020 Fall Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The team leading the work on the integrated Future Estimator of Emissions and Diets (iFEED) tool created a poster for the session on "Implications of climate change, extreme events, and adaptation potentials for global agriculture". This poster is a key output in terms of engaging new audiences on the iFEED tool which forms a key part of our policy engagement activities in the final year of implementation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://agu2020fallmeeting-agu.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx?s=AA-C5-49-D0-DC-D4-B1-D1-23-CC-9F-E... |
| Description | ARICAP Tanzania information booklets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Information booklet detailing the planned and ongoing research work in Tanzania |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | ARMA 2021 - panel on South-North research collaboration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The AFRICAP programme manager and regional policy officer led and participated in a panel discussion on experiences of developing and managing AFRICAP at the Association of Research Managers and Administrators annual conference in 2021. The panel was entitled 'Managing complex international programmes: perspectives from the Global South and North'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-universities-2021-10-unequal-research-management... |
| Description | Aagroecology training week in Tanga, Tanzania |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Researchers from University of Leeds, supported by partner the Economic and Social Research Foundation, led a week of agroecology training for agriculture extension officers covering areas such as soil health, pests and diseases, and climate risk and uncertainty. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Aflatoxin Workshop: Assessing health burdens from aflatoxin exposure in African food systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Aflatoxins have been recognized as significant contaminants and the control strategies have mostly eliminated their harmful exposures in developed countries. However, in developing countries, about 5 billion people are at risk of chronic exposure to aflatoxins through contaminated foods. The understanding of aflatoxin exposure, biological plausibility of health effects and exposure reduction remedies was required in context to the associated question of food insufficiency and economic challenges in developing countries. In response to the emerging issue of childhood stunting through suspected dietary aflatoxin exposure, a workshop of 25 food science, nutrition and health experts and food safety officials/managers was organized at the School of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Leeds. The HEFCE GCRF Aflatoxin Workshop brought together a diverse group to discuss aflatoxin exposure and risk assessments in sub-Saharan African countries, the related health effects, the influence of climate change and to foresee the future possibilities of developing an integrated research plan aimed to reduce and prevent aflatoxin exposure. It collected advanced knowledge about the intensity of aflatoxin exposure and possibly linked burden of childhood stunting and suggested the development of effective, culturally appropriate strategies to address it effectively within developing countries, where aflatoxin exposure is intertwined with issues of food insecurity, insufficiency or malnutrition. The workshop emphasized the collaboration at local, regional, national, and international level in order to effectively combine food safety research, public health and agricultural approaches to control the aflatoxin exposure and associated morbidity and mortality. Further, it provided much needed evidence for governments and policy decision makers to take effective management action for reducing poverty and improving child nutrition. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://physicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/557/assessing_health_burdens_from_aflatoxin_exposu... |
| Description | AfricaMAC Presentation - climate change impacts on extreme rainfall in Eastern Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | AfricaMAC group - UK Met Office and university researchers focussed on Africa - shared research looking at impact of climate change on extremes. Sharing new methods not often used in climate science. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | African Union side event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In February 2021, FANRPAN participated in a side event on the side-lines of the African Union Summit. The side event focused on the 2nd Biennial Review Report which was due for release during the summit. The event focused on the broad partnerships observations of challenges and solutions to the implementation of interventions for countries to attain their commitments to the Malabo Declaration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Article by PhD researcher on gender in agriculture interventions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | AFRICAP-aligned PhD researcher wrote an article for online journal 'The Ecologist' on her work looking at how reductive portrayals of women as the primary victims of climate change overlook complex drivers of vulnerability for both women and men in agriculture interventions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://theecologist.org/2019/may/13/women-international-development |
| Description | Attendance at the 23rd Southern African Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF-23) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | AFRICAP partner - the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) - attended the 23rd Southern African Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF-23) - and presented results produced by the modelling work conducted under GCRF-AFRICAP and how they can feed into regional climate discussions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BBC World Service - Science in Action, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 22nd November 2019, Discussed findings and significance of Thirkell et al., 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csym2q |
| Description | Blog: CSA innovation transitions and livelihood outcomes - updates from the field |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | AFRICAP research fellow for climate-smart agriculture, Dr Harriet Smith, contributed a blog to the website summarising her recent field trip to Tanzania. The trip centred around examining the climate-smart agriculture innovation and the associated livelihoods outcomes of farmers in the Usambara Mountains linked to two ongoing CSA programmes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/csa-innovation-transitions-and-livelihood-outcomes-updates-from-the-field/ |
| Description | Briefing notes on Extreme Weather and Climate in the focal countries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The UK Met Office created a suite of briefing notes in the four AFRICAP focal countries to give an overview of weather extremes, such as heatwaves, droughts and floods and predictions based on AFRICAP work for each country. They also offer policy recommendations to mitigate against these extremes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/policy-briefs/ |
| Description | CARE-FANRPAN joint press release |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following attendance at the Southern African Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SARCOF-23), AFRICAP partner - the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) released a joint press release with Care International entitled 'SADC member states need to invest in disaster risk management during the coming season of recovery'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.fanrpan.org/publication/care-fanrpan-press-release-1 |
| Description | CCAFS Learning Platform launch presentation by Andy Challinor |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The launch of an international learning platform for a major research programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) being hosted by the Priestley Centre at the University of Leeds. The cross cutting learning platform on Partnerships and Capacity for Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is the central mechanism to bring cohesion between efforts at national, regional and global levels. It will also manage partnerships and impact pathways for climate change policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | CCAFS webinars |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Lead partner FANRPAN engaged with the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and partners in webinar sessions on 'Transforming global food systems under climate change' and 'Transforming innovation systems for evidence-based action at scale' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CISANET meeting with Mwapata, National Planning Commission (NPC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | CISANET colleagues met with Mwapata, a research arm of the National Planning Commission (NPC) to provide comments on the five-year strategic plan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | COMESA Summit 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The FANRPAN CEO and AFRICAP Co-PI participated in the twentieth Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) in Lusaka, Zambia on 18-19 July 2018. The summit theme was 'Towards Digital Economic Integration'. The Co-PI had an opportunity to meet with the Incoming COMESA Secretary General to brief her on FANRPAN activities including the AFRICAP project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.comesa.int/summit2018/ |
| Description | COVID-19 lowered food production, quality and access in South Africa, study finds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A media specialist engaged by the AFRICAP programme produced a news item on research related to the impact of COVID-19 on South African farmers. This allowed us to share the results of specialist research conducted during the pandemic to understand how best to mitigate against these effects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/covid-19-lowered-food-production-quality-and-access-in-south-africa-study-finds... |
| Description | Can trade help Africa achieve nutrition security in 2050? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ensuring people have the right amounts and the right kinds of food to support healthy lifestyles is a growing challenge across Africa. Many countries have made progress towards reducing the prevalence of undernourishment - having insufficient energy to support activity levels - but these improvements have slowed in recent years. In AFRICAP countries, including Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia, the trend has started to reverse. One of the AFRICAP senior researchers based at Chatham House produced this engagement piece in advance of the policy-facing webinar on the same subject. The result was an increase in attendance by those from the relevant policy audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/can-trade-help-africa-achieve-nutrition-security-in-2050/ |
| Description | Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Zomba |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In January 2019, several members of the GCRF-AFRICAP research team travelled to Malawi to scope opportunities for research and engage with local stakeholder, In Zomba, the team met with nutrition experts at Chancellor College to discuss ongoing research and potential collaboration opportunities with the University of Leeds including possible capacity-building and training in chemical analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Climate Finance and Investment Mechanisms for a Resilient Agriculture Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN invited NDC focal points from Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia to attend an event on Climate Finance and Investment Mechanisms for a Resilient Agriculture Sector in Eastern and Southern Africa (18-20 February 2020). Each focal point provided an update on the respective country's progress towards the NDCs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Climate Impacts UK workshop presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Academics and non-academics from across the UK attended this workshop. Presentations were given on the DIM modelling in AFRICAP, as well as a more generic presentation on AFRICAP research to date. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Climate Smart Agriculture Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN participated at the Africa Climate Smart Agriculture summit that took place from 15 -16 May 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya. The summit was held under the theme " Partnerships, Innovations & Financing for Climate Smart Agriculture". The SDGs were a point of departure for the summit discussions. The objective was to provide an opportunity for cross-sector networking and knowledge exchange that is competent and neutral, technical and commercial by bringing together all stakeholders, including regional governments and policy makers, private sector and research organisations, UN agencies and civil society. Key Messages from the summit relevant to AFRICAP included: - Climate change is already having an impact on agriculture and food security as a result of increased prevalence of extreme events and increased unpredictability of weather patterns - CSA is an approach to developing the technical, policy and investment conditions to achieve sustainable agricultural development for food security under climate change - Prior to policy formulation and implementation, there is need to evaluate the existing strategies to increase agriculture crop yields - Agricultural policies that are formulated should ensure that Africa is working towards sustainable climate resilience Strengthening and expanding institutions to improve the distribution of information can assist in the improvement of upscaling CSA in Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://csa-africa.aidforum.org/ |
| Description | Climate risks webinar - CARE International |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A webinar to present work done by GCRF-AFRICAP in collaboration with CCAFS mapping climate risks across southern Africa. The discussions focused the intersection between climate risks and governance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Climate smart agriculture and trade-offs with biodiversity and ecosystem services at local and landscape scales - Dr Hemant Trepathi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research seminar containing the details and findings of AFRICAP agroecology research in Tanzania and South Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Climate-Smart Change? Lessons from working with governments, NGOs and farmers on scaling up productive, resilient and low-emission agriculture in Africa under CCAFS (ICRAF) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Our fifth knowledge-sharing seminar took place on 17 June 2019 and was led by Dr Todd Rosenstock, Dr Christine Lamanna and Dr Pete Steward of World Agroforestry (ICRAF). The team showcased experiences of conducting and disseminating climate-smart agricultural research in Africa and also presented their climate-smart agriculture compendium - a meta-dataset compiled to explore questions around the 'climate-smartness' of agricultural technologies. There were 31 participants in our live audience at the University of Leeds and 64 webinar attendees from 24 countries, including 13 African countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/climate-smart-change-lessons-from-working-with-governments-ngos-and-farmers-on-... |
| Description | Collaborative Research Planning / Future Funding Workshop between ICRAF & Leeds AFRICAP researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | During a two day pump-priming visit to spur collaborations between the University of Leeds and ICRAF's Thematic Research Area Land Health Decisions (LHD), a workshop was held to explore opportunities to integrate their climate-smart agriculture compendium into the AFRICAP project and its national impact plans; to determine opportunities for collaborative publications; and to develop ideas and networks for future funding calls. There were 19 attendees including the ICRAF team and researchers from various career stages at the University of Leeds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Conservation agriculture and land change in Free State - implications for biodiversity and ecosystem services - Dr Hemant Trepathi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation as part of the national level stakeholder workshop in South Africa |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Convection Permitting Modelling Workshop - impact of climate change on rainfall extremes in a convection permitting model |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online poster presentation an questions to a conference focussed on convection permitting modelling - follow-up questions from some attendees who viewed my presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Country Node capacity-building workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In May 2019, seven representatives of our in-country partners in Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia visited the University of Leeds for a three-day workshop which looked at policy priorities; monitoring and evaluation; and the development of AFRICAP's special agricultural zone work. Researchers at various career stages at the University of Leeds also participated, allowing us plans to be made on this work going forward. As part of the feedback requested, all attendees rated the workshop as either 'excellent' or 'very good' and 88% reported that the knowledge and information gained from participation definitely or mostly met their expectations while 94% reported that the knowledge and information gained definitely or mostly will be applicable in their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Cultivate Africa conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The GCRF-AFRICAP Programme participated at the virtual Cultivate-Africa Dialogues hosted by the Africa Union Commission in November 2020.The dialogues were a response to the Joint Ministerial Declaration and Action Agenda from the Joint Virtual Meeting of the African Ministers Responsible for Agriculture, Trade and Finance on the Impact of Covid-19 on Food and Nutrition Security in Africa held in April and in July 2020. At a side event on November 17, under the theme; Building Resilient Food and Agriculture Systems, GCRF-AFRICAP programme researchers showcased how they are drawing together existing knowledge of opportunities and challenges for climate-smart agriculture, and the broader policy and institutional environments at play. These opportunities and challenges provide a basis for envisioning and evaluating possible futures for agriculture and food systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/africap-programme-researchers-participate-in-the-cultivate-africa-virtual-dialo... |
| Description | Davos 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | GCRF-AFRICAP scenarios work was within the Food Dialogue, chaired by David Nabarro at Davos 2018 (for EAT/World Economic Forum/World Business Council for Sustainable Development). Presenting at the event, AFRICAP Principal Investigator, Professor Tim Benton emphasized that enhanced foresight is critical for all decisions regarding food systems transformations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Design and launch of GCRF-AFRICAP programme website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A dedicated programme website has been designed to ensure reach beyond the organisations involved. Content has been provided from across the GCRF-AFRICAP team to ensure website users gain clarity on programme research activities by Theme and Country. All programme-related events are posted on the website which has led to at least one request from a senior government official to attend the Tanzanian kick-off and scenarios participatory workshop in September 2018. The website also includes a blog where content will be posted to further engage audiences; a space where programme-related publications can be downloaded; and links to the dedicated programme Twitter account (see separate engagement activity). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://africap.info |
| Description | Determinants of postharvest losses of maize at producer level in different agroecology settings of Malawi and Tanzania |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An oral presentation during the 3rd All Africa Postharvest Congress and Exhibition(AAPHCE) on the theme: Postharvest Loss Reduction for Sustainable Food Systems, from 13th to 16th September 2021; a virtual scientific conference hosted by the African Union Commission. Title: Determinants of postharvest losses of maize at producer level in different agroecology settings of Malawi and Tanzania. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://congress.aaphce.com/event/b5e28a0d-0ca0-428e-826d-56bba37d42e1/summary |
| Description | Devex Dish |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Featured in Devex Dish newsletter on 30 March - What can the 2008 food crisis tell us about this one? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | EGU - soil erosion presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Short online presentation on soil erosion work - answered many questions from audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Engagement at COP26 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | AFRICAP team members participated in a range of agriculture- and food-focused events at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. This allowed key messages about AFRICAP results, primarily iFEED, to be disseminated to key stakeholders and to create linkages for future collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://medium.com/globalfoodleeds/searching-for-food-systems-transformation-at-cop26-3fa8398a5e72 |
| Description | Engagement in 'World Pulses Day 2021' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The profile of a postgraduate researcher was created and shared on social media channels on the 10th of February 2021 for 'World Pulses Day'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/food-nutrition-research-degrees/dir-record/student-alumni-profiles/1... |
| Description | Engagement of seven iFEED champions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | iFEED champions were engaged at the national level (2 in Tanzania, 2 in Malawi, 1 in South Africa, 1 in Zambia) and regional level (a member of our Strategic Advisory Board) to raise awareness of the tool among key agriculture and food system stakeholders in their respective countries and regions and increase usage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://africap.info/ifeed-champions-share-their-insights-on-the-progress-of-the-project-2/ |
| Description | Engagement with Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The GCRF-AFRICAP Country Coordinator for Tanzania met with the Head of the Environmental Management Unit at the Ministry of Agriculture in May and June 2018. The discussions included a briefing on the programme aims and objectives and potential areas for involvement from the Ministry. Later, in September 2018,the then Minister of Agriculture attended the programme kick-off and participatory scenarios workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Engagement with SADC Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) Directorate team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN engaged with the SADC Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR) Directorate team to update them on AFRICAP progress and to also identify ways in which AFRICAP work can feed into more regional policy processes. FANRPAN was informed that the SADC Secretariat has embarked on a process of formulation of the SADC Vision 2050 and the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP 2020-2030), which will provide a new strategic direction to address contemporary regional challenges. FANRPAN was invited to support the country consultation processes especially the work around developing a programme on climate change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Expert view: Can the sub-Saharan African food system be climate-smart and nutrition-sensitive? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Can the African Food System be both climate-smart and nutrition-sensitive? Professor Caroline Orfila produced a blog and associated vlog on this theme as part of a joint campaign for World Food Day led by the ARUA-UKRI GCRF Food Systems Research Network for Africa (FSNet-Africa) in partnership with the Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), the University of Leeds' Global Food and Environment Institute (GFEI), and the GCRF AFRICAP programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/can-the-sub-saharan-african-food-system-be-climate-smart-and-nutrition-sensitiv... |
| Description | Expert view: Collaboration, trust and urgency - the three things we need to tackle global challenges |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Effective collaboration is key to tackling the 'grand challenges' we face before time runs out. AFRICAP PI Tim Benton wrote this piece on the importance of shifting our thinking to a systems approach for success. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/collaboration-trust-and-urgency-the-three-things-we-need-to-tackle-global-chall... |
| Description | Expert view: Five reasons why past and present realities must inform future food system transformation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Stephen Whitfield provided this expert view piece on the programme's Food Systems Theme and five reasons for taking a historical and contemporary view. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/five-reasons-why-past-and-present-realities-must-inform-future-food-system-tran... |
| Description | Expert view: How conservation agriculture helps African farmers combat climate change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Can conservation agriculture (CA) help farmers in sub-Saharan Africa build resilience to the problem of climate change? Professor Andy Dougill believes it is possible, but that more coordinated planning and coherent policy support across sectors nationally, on a district level, and to a range of local farmer groups and community leaders is needed. He produced a blog and associated vlog on this theme as part of a joint campaign for World Food Day led by the ARUA-UKRI GCRF Food Systems Research Network for Africa (FSNet-Africa) in partnership with the Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), the University of Leeds' Global Food and Environment Institute (GFEI), and the GCRF AFRICAP programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/how-conservation-agriculture-helps-african-farmers-combat-climate-change/ |
| Description | Expert view: How scientists are mixing modelling, data and expertise to feed Africa's future |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Andy Challinor provided this overview of the AFRICAP modelling work including the iFEED tool (integrated Future Estimator of Emissions and Diets) for the AFRICAP website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/scientists-mixing-modelling-data-and-expertise-to-feed-africas-future/ |
| Description | Expert view: How to rethink agricultural innovation: Redefining success |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Thirze Hermans, a researcher affiliated with the AFRICAP programme produced this piece on our published work with Malawian farmers to understand how promoting an agricultural innovation, namely conservation agriculture, actually plays out within the farming system, and in particular, how decision-making and adaptation takes place. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/how-to-rethink-agricultural-innovation-redefining-success/ |
| Description | Expert view: How we measure research impact is as important as achieving it |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Helen Coskeran, Monitoring & Evaluation Lead, wrote this expert view on the importance of collaborative monitoring and evaluation and examples of best practice in how to achieve this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/how-we-measure-research-impact-is-as-important-as-achieving-it/ |
| Description | Expert view: The dirt on soil health: Addressing Africa's food insecurity from the ground up |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Samuel Eze, postdoctoral research associate for AFRICAP, wrote this expert view on his work on soil health and degradation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/the-dirt-on-soil-health-addressing-africas-food-insecurity-from-the-ground-up/ |
| Description | Extreme Rainfall and Flooding in the East Usambaras - Challenges and Solutions. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Extreme rainfall in recent weeks in the East Usambara Mountains, one of AFRICAP's study sites in Tanzania, has led to severe cases of flooding and landslides. Whilst seasonal rainfall is usual for this time of year in the Usambaras, such a high level of rainfall is unprecedented. As part of The AFRICAP programme of work, we are working with local and Government organisations in Tanzania to understand the effects of climate change on food and agricultural systems. Part of this process is the development of a robust evidence base, to support informed decision-making. In this blog, AFRICAP researchers Hemant Tripathi, Joseph Galani, Samuel Eze, Sarah Chapman and Harriet Smith reflect on their current research in the East Usambaras, and provide insights on likely outcomes and potential support systems, to help cope and adapt to such extreme rainfall events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/extreme-rainfall-and-flooding-in-the-east-usambaras-challenges-and-solutions/ |
| Description | FANRPAN Annual Regional Policy Dialogue 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN's regional policy dialogue was held in Kigali, Rwanda on 'Enhancing climate resilience and food & nutrition security' and AFRICAP colleagues presented a panel on programme experiences to date. Prior to the dialogue, a meeting was held for AFRICAP partners only to align thinking and plans for the coming year and to review the previous year. A team member from Chatham House participated in this meeting and discussed with partners their requirements from the AFRICAP modelling outputs. This allowed country partner representatives to voice their needs and expectiations from the modelling work and connect it to the results of the scenarios workshops conducted in 2018. The same Chatham House team member gave the keynote presentation on 'Supporting Climate Change Adaptation Decisions Through Scenario Planning' - to inform practitioners and policymakers about AFRICAP's experience with scenario exercises and how it might be relevant for their planning processes while the ensuing panel including country partner representatives who shared their own experiences of scenarios planning and use of the outputs from this. The event received endorsement from the Permanent Secretary of Agriculture for Zimbabwe who said that scenario planning should be the way that all governments develop their strategies and policies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.fanrpan.org/2019-fanrpan-annual-policy-dialogue-resolutions |
| Description | FANRPAN Annual Regional Policy Dialogue 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN's annual regional policy dialogue, held virtually in 2020, attracted 350 stakeholders and featured learnings resulting from GCRF-AFRICAP under the topic 'Building Better and Resilient Agriculture and Food Systems'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.namc.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FANRPAN-DIGEST13-Nov-2020-1.pdf |
| Description | FANRPAN and NAMC meeting with the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN's CEO and AFRICAP Co-PI together with FANRPAN South Africa Node Institution NAMC briefed the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) on the programme. The Minister welcomed the programme and highlighted a number of areas in which the project could support the Government of South Africa's agriculture development efforts in the face of a changing climate. He particularly welcomed the participatory scenario building work which will be conducted to describe the potential future status of agri-food systems based on best knowledge of their contemporary state and plausible trajectories of change at a regional scale. The Minister also highlighted the technical support the ministry will need in addressing the land policy issues so that imbalances in ownership and access are corrected in a manner that does not disrupt growth of the sector and the economy as a whole. There is an opportunity for the project through the participatory scenario building work to provide evidence and advice on land policy that will address historical inequities in a manner that protects and advances agricultural sector performance, food security, economic growth and job creation in the country. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | FANRPAN at African Green Revolution Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN's CEO and Board Chair attended the African Green Revolution Forum and raised awareness among attendees of the work being conducted under AFRICAP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | FANRPAN engagement with COMESA on iFEED |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN's CEO, Director of Policy Advocacy and iFEED Regional Coordinator had a meeting with the COMESA Assistant Secretary General and his team to share the AFRICAP programme and outputs, including the iFEED framework. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://fanrpan.org/7-march-2022-lusaka-zambia/ |
| Description | FANRPAN engagement with EAC on iFEED |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN's CEO and Director of Policy Advocacy had a meeting with the EAC Deputy Secretary General (Productive and Social Sectors) and his team to share the AFRICAP programme and outputs, including the iFEED framework. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | FANRPAN engagement with SADC on iFEED |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN's CEO, Director of Policy Advocacy and iFEED Regional Coordinastor had a meeting with the SADC FANR Director and his team to share the AFRICAP programme and outputs, including the iFEED framework. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | FANRPAN engagement with the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) on plans for a South African Climate-Smart Agriculture Alliance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN met with the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) to provide updates on climate change work (including AFRICAP) and to discuss plans to operationalise the South African Climate-Smart Agriculture Alliance. This alliance was launched by FANRPAN and three other technical partners (the CGIAR research programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security [CCAFS], the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa [FARA], the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organisation [FAO]) and five international non-governmental organisations (Care International, Catholic Relief Services, Oxfam, World Vision and Concern Worldwide). The alliance is a vehicle for regional learning and sharing on ongoing climate-smart agriculture-related work and provides an opportunity for AFRICAP to contribute to the achievement of the African Union's overall goal targeting 25 million farming households by 2025. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | FANRPAN media engagement workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN in collaboration with communication specialists and AFRICAP researchers, ran workshops in each focal country for a total of 75 media professionals to build capacity in reporting on agriculture and climate change. The feedback from participants was positive as it increased their awareness of both GCRF-AFRICAP as a programme and issues relating to climate-smart agriculture more broadly. In Zambia, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change focal point attended the workshop to discuss priorities with journalists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | FANRPAN side event at UN Climate Change Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN participated in COP 25 in Madrid, Spain in December 2019, were they convened two events, (i) An Action Hub focused on 'Fostering investment in climate-smart agriculture through innovative engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa' convened in partnership with David Howlett from the Global Resilience Partnership and AFRICAP Strategic Advisory Board Chair; (ii) A European Union Pavilion side event on 'Stepping Up Engagement Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa to Catalyse Investments in Climate Action', focused on the need to mobilize financing to promote scaling up of proven CSA technologies and practices to ensure the resilience of Africa's smallholder farmers against climate change. The side event was convened in partnership with the SADC Secretariat, the Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development for Southern Africa (CCARDESA), the SADC/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Adaptation to Climate Change in Rural Areas in Southern Africa (ACCRA) programme (implemented on behalf of German Federal Ministry for Economic Development and Cooperation, BMZ), the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), CARE International, the Initiative for the Adaptation of African Agriculture (AAA) and the World Bank. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | FANRPAN side event at the African Union summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The FANRPAN Chief Executive Officer and Director for Policy Advocacy and Communications participated in a side event at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 8 February. The event focused on accelerating the implementation of climate nutrition and agriculture commitments in the Malabo Declaration and the GCRF-AFRICAP scenarios report and approach were presented to attendees |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | FCDO South Africa presentation on iFEED |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | AFRICAP principal investigators Prof Tim Benton and Dr Tshilidzi Madzivhandila, along with other team members, presented on AFRICAP at an event on 12 July 2021 with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) team in South Africa that showcased some of work by the N8 Universities on agriculture in Africa. There was great interest among participants and requests for follow-up information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Foresight4Food Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | GCRF-AFRICAP scenarios work was presented at Foresight4Food (Montpellier, May 2018). Presenting at the event, AFRICAP Principal Investigator, Professor Tim Benton emphasized that enhanced foresight is critical for all decisions regarding food systems transformations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | GCRF clusters meeting presentation on iFEED |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A meeting with different GCRF project outcomes being discussed for possible cross-project lessons / outcomes being learned. A particular focus on hydrological modelling - and therefore on the irrigation aspects of iFEED. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP Knowledge Sharing Webinar: Crop breeding for climate resilience in southern Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Seed systems play a vital role in achieving food security in southern Africa. Thus, targeting resilience to climate change within them is key to preparing for future climate scenarios. Held on 27 January 2021, the GCRF-AFRICAP programme's first research seminar of the year explored this topic in depth, presenting an analysis of recent AFRICAP work to characterise efforts to breed climate resilient crops in southern Africa, considering and demonstrating potential ways to use climate models to inform breeding priorities and strategies, and discussing some of the possible pitfalls. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/crop-breeding-for-climate-resilience-in-southern-africa-webinar-recap-recording... |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP Knowledge Sharing Webinar: Implementing Climate-Smart Agriculture: Innovation, Inclusivity and Capacity-Building |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Held on 31 March 2021, GCRF-AFRICAP's research seminar, 'Implementing Climate-Smart Agriculture: Innovation, Inclusivity and Capacity-Building', explored AFRICAP's research into CSA implementation in Tanzania. Dr Susannah Sallu set the stage for the event with an introduction to CSA in Tanzania, including an explanation of the benefits to agriculture and the current context surrounding implementation. Marta Gaworek-Michalczenia kicked off research presentations with a discussion of her PhD research, which evaluates the livelihood resilience and vulnerability outcomes of an integrated climate adaptation intervention, in Muheza District, Tanzania. Building on Gaworek-Michalczenia's findings, Dr Harriet Smith presented her research, looking at two CSA interventions in neighbouring Muheza and Lushoto Districts. Smith's presentation explored who has access to, and is able to benefit from CSA interventions, who does not, and why. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/implementing-climate-smart-agriculture-webinar-recap-recording-and-slides/ |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP Knowledge-Sharing Seminar and Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Our knowledge-sharing seminar and webinar on 30 January 2019 attracted 30 live participants at the University of Leeds and 62 webinar attendees from 22 countries. Three of our postdoctoral research associates presented on their methodological approaches. This sparked questions from attendees that included representatives from government, NGOs and the private sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/inaugural-gcrf-africap-knowledge-sharing-seminar-a-success/ |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP Knowledge-Sharing Seminar and Webinar - The Role of Agriculture in Economic Transformation (Dr Andrew Coulson) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The second in our knowledge-sharing seminar series took place on 27 February 2019. There were 40 participants in our live audience at the University of Leeds and 30 webinar attendees from 13 countries, including nine African countries. Dr Andrew Coulson, honorary senior research fellow at the University of Birmingham presented on the Role of Agriculture in Economic Transformation and spoke to his new recently published book 'Increasing Production from the Land: A Sourcebook on Agriculture for Teachers and Students in East Africa' (co-authored by Antony Ellman and Emmanuel Mbiha). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP Knowledge-Sharing Seminar and Webinar: 'Malawi's Climate & Hydrological Futures'. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chaired by Professor Andy Dougill, AFRICAP Malawi country coordinator, the webinar shared key Malawi-specific findings from the Future Climate for Africa UMFULA project, which Dougill leads as project co-Investigator. Guest speakers included three researchers who worked in depth on the UMFULA project, namely, Ajay Bhave who works on water resource management and climate change adaptation; Emmanuel Likoya, an environmental scientist specialising in climate change impacts on hydrological and agroecological systems; and Neha Mittal, an interdisciplinary environmental researcher focusing on climate services and climate impacts analysis. Together, the three presenters led a discussion of the UMFULA project, sharing key results emerging from decision making under uncertainty approaches that combine stakeholder engagement with water resources modelling. The main aim was to explore future risks and the ability of risk management options to support resilient decision making in Malawi. Speakers also shared insights from engagement with stakeholders across the tea sector in Malawi on generation of site-specific future climate information that could help in selecting appropriate adaptation strategies. The session closed with a Q&A with guest speakers and discussant David Mkwambisi, Malawi University of Science & Technology, Head of the Centre for Innovation & Industrial Research & Malawi Co-ordinator for FCFA UMFULA project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/recording-available-malawis-climate-hydrological-futures-webinar/ |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP Knowledge-Sharing Seminar and Webinar: Creating resilient agri-food systems in sub-Saharan Africa (Kambwiri & Chomba) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A seminar featuring the two AFRICAP team members who completed fellowships at Chatham House took place on 11 December. As the first seminar to take place fully outside of the University of Leeds, this was an excellent opportunity to showcase the results of this new fellowship initiative to both Chatham House colleagues and 20 webinar participants from the UK and sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/africap-chatham-house-fellows-round-off-the-2019-seminar-series/ |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP Knowledge-Sharing Seminar and Webinar: Driving transformational change in agri-food systems, a multi-stakeholder approach (Mwamakamba) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Our fourth knowledge-sharing seminar took place on 29 May 2019 and was led by Ms Sithembile Mwamakamba, GCRF-AFRICAP co-project manager and programme manager for climate-smart agriculture at lead African partner FANRPAN. Sithembile presented on the pressing global challenge of whether agriculture can meet unprecedented demand for food while ensuring sustainable use of natural resources, containing greenhouse gas emissions, and mitigating the impacts of climate change. There were 27 participants in our live audience at the University of Leeds and 16 webinar attendees from 8 countries, including 5 African countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/driving-transformational-change-in-agri-food-systems-a-multi-stakeholder-approa... |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP Knowledge-Sharing Seminar and Webinar: Findings of the IPCC SRCCL as they apply to Africa (Smith) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This knowledge-sharing seminar, in collaboration with the University of Leeds Global Food and Environment Institute (GFEI), was led by Professor Pete Smith (AFRICAP co-investigator at the University of Aberdeen). The seminar focused on the recently-completed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land as it pertains to Africa. We were delighted to have 49 participants in the room at the University of Leeds and 63 online attendees from 19 countries, 13 of which in sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/africap-launches-2020-seminar-series/ |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP Knowledge-Sharing Seminar and Webinar: Researching climate-smart agriculture in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Our first knowledge-sharing seminar of the 2019/2020 season took place on 25 September 2019 and was led by three doctoral researchers based at the University of Leeds whose work aligns with the AFRICAP programme. - Ndashe Kapulu (School of Food Science and Nutrition) presented on 'Emerging soybean markets in Zambia: What are the implications for rural households?' In the last decade, soybean production in Zambia has increased eight-thousand fold owing to increased demand from livestock and human food value chains, including improved government policy support and market expansions. In this presentation, Ndashe shared insights on implications such growth could have on rural households from his research under the GCRF-AFRICAP project, drawing on his previous experiences working among soybean farmers in Zambia. - Emmanuel Likoya (Sustainability Research Institute) presented on 'Drought processes in current and future climate and implications for irrigation and resilient food production systems in Malawi' This research looks at the future risk of drought and feasibility of irrigation-focused food production systems. Emmanuel presented a process-based evaluation of the risk of drought from meteorological, agricultural and hydrological perspectives and an evaluation of how improved understanding of how such processes could add value to decision (policy) making in and around irrigation farming and food system resilience in the context of climate change. - Ruth Smith (Sustainability Research Institute) presented on 'Exploring Gendered Influences in the Adoption of 'Climate Smart Agriculture' Practices in Tanzania' Characterising gender within Tanzanian CSA policy and programming from national to local level: perspectives, framings, and (in)action. This talk presented preliminary findings from a desk-based policy review of gendered narratives within Tanzania's agricultural and climate policies. There were 19 participants in our live audience at the University of Leeds and 24 webinar attendees from 12 countries, including 8 sub-Saharan African countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/seminar-csa-tz-zm-mw/ |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP Knowledge-Sharing Seminar and Webinar: What is the role of information in climate change adaptation in rural Africa? (Paterson/Narayanaswamy) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chris Paterson (Media and Communications, University of Leeds) and Dr Lata Narayanaswamy (POLIS, University of Leeds) led this seminar, hosted jointly with fellow GCRF programme African SWIFT and the Leeds University Centre for African Studies. Focusing on work funded by the university's quality-related Global Challenges Research Fund allocation, Drs Paterson and Narayanaswamy presented research conducted by a wider team in Kenya and the UK with two key objectives: to explore how to provide nuanced understandings of how the local information ecosystem in rural Kenyan communities operates to understand its effects on women's ability to combine indigenous and externally-sourced knowledge in climate change adaptation Using a multi-site quasi-ethnographic approach, the research was conducted in two rural communities in Kenya - Makueni and Kisumu - and used interview and observation techniques to understand how and why women are able to access as well as influence knowledge processes and information dissemination related to climate change adaptation. The research revealed that a range of communications channels are used with a preference for radio and mobile phones, though the information - particularly on weather and alternative seed varieties - it not always accessible in a timely manner. In addition, while many women are knowledgeable on climate change adaptation, their agency is limited by their wide-ranging community roles that go beyond agriculture. Suggestions emerging from the project to address these challenges include more informational and material resources to facilitate climate change adaptation and a 'listening infrastructure' to allow grassroots communities to feed up to decision- and policy-makers on their needs and experiences. The research team will be conducting a follow-up study during 2020 to include both Kenya and Ghana. As well as 15 staff and students at the University of Leeds, we were joined by 21 remote participants from a range of countries, including Kenya, Nigeria and Niger. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/february-seminar-what-is-the-role-of-information-in-climate-change-adaptation-i... |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP Knowledge-Sharing Webinar: Climate Resilient Agriculture Success Stories - Making a Case for Scale Up (Thierfelder) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN ran a webinar in the lead-up to COP25 in collaboration with the (GIZ) GmbH, SADC Programme on Adaptation to Climate Change in Rural Areas in Southern Africa (ACCRA), the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) and the Centre for Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development in Southern Africa (CCARDESA). The webinar was an opportunity to reflect on success stories in climate-resilient agriculture including a maize value chain development project that seeks to out-scale climate-smart technologies to smallholder farmers in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe and the NEPAD Program on Agriculture and Climate Change Vision 25 x 25. The webinar was very well-attended with 53 participants from 25 countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/climate-resilient-agriculture-success-stories-making-a-case-for-scale-up-webina... |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP Knowledge-Sharing Webinar: Improving soil health through climate-smart agriculture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Efforts to meet the growing demand for food across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has led to unsustainable land management practices that cause soil degradation and weaken the resilience of agricultural systems. Soil health is key to building more climate-resilient agricultural systems and can be improved through a range of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices. Featuring presentations from Prof Andy Dougill, Dr Samuel Eze and Thirze Hermans, this webinar focused on AFRICAP's efforts to review and extend the empirical evidence base to inform context-specific CSA recommendations and policies for a resilient agriculture and food security in SSA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/events/improving-soil-health-through-climate-smart-agriculture-a-key-to-resilie... |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP Knowledge-sharing Seminar and Webinar: Adaptation Strategies to Flooding in Low Income Urban Settings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A knowledge-sharing seminar and webinar run jointly with the University of Leeds Centre for African Studies was held featuring Dr Pedi Obani, Research Fellow in the United Nations University - Institute for Natural Resources in Africa (UNU-INRA) on 'Individual adaptation strategies to flooding in a low income urban setting in Nigeria'. There were 12 attendees in the room and 13 attendees online from various countries including Nigeria, South Africa and Mali. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/gcrf-africap-lucas-knowledge-sharing-seminar-dr-pedi-obani/ |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP blogpost: Extreme Rainfall and Flooding in the East Usambaras - Challenges and Solutions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A blogpost summarising work from a range of disciplines (social science, climate science, food science, agro-ecology and soil science) taking place in the East Usambaras region of Tanzania was published on the GCRF-AFRICAP website in response to extreme rainfall and flooding in the region in October 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/extreme-rainfall-and-flooding-in-the-east-usambaras-challenges-and-solutions/ |
| Description | GCRF-AFRICAP knowledge-sharing seminar on 'Perspectives on Agri-Food System Sustainability in East Africa'. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A knowledge-sharing seminar in partnership with the Global Food and Environment Institute at UoL took place on 18 June on 'Perspectives on Agri-Food System Sustainability in East Africa'. Attendance was significantly increased from previous webinars with 70 attendees joining the session. The recording is available on the AFRICAP website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/webinar-recording-available-perspectives-on-agri-food-system-sustainability-in-... |
| Description | Guardian article on AFRICAP results |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The UK newspaper The Guardian featured a piece on AFRICAP when the final report was launched on 24 March 2022 entitled ''Climate smart' policies could increase southern Africa's crops by up to 500%'. This led to the key programme results reaching a wider public audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/24/climate-smart-policies-could-increase-sou... |
| Description | High-level breakfast (Lilongwe, Malawi) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The purpose of the meeting was to bring together high level government officials from relevant Ministries and brief them about the GCRF-AFRICAP Project. The High Level Government Officials were expected to give their input on how the project would support government initiatives related to the scope of the project. The meeting was attended by 18 representatives from government line ministries and departments including the Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Environment, Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA), Industry, Trade and Tourism (MoITT), Department of Land Resources Conservation (DLRC), Ministry of Health Department of Nutrition, HIV and AIDS (DNHA) and Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Household survey blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Lead partner Food Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) authored a blogpost on the AFRICAP household survey launched across our four focal countries in April 2019. The post post aimed to describe the process involved and communicate this work to a non-expert audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/gcrf-africap-household-surveys-underway/ |
| Description | How international grants can assess and progress organisational capacity: Insights from AFRICAP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An expert view piece by the AFRICAP programme manager and regional policy officer on the Partner Institutional Viability Assessment, a key organisational capacity-building activity in order to disseminate knowledge of this useful tool with others designing and implementing capacity-focused initiatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/how-international-grants-can-assess-and-progress-organisational-capacity-insigh... |
| Description | How to outsmart pests and diseases in climate-smart agriculture systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An Expert Views article on biodiversity, crop yields and climate change was published to support promotion of the 27 May AFRICAP webinar. In this, one of the AFRICAP postdoctoral research associates provided background on the following: Pests and crop diseases reduce 20-40% of annual crop yields and, sometimes, even destroy entire farms. Climate change could accelerate the impact of pest and diseases, posing considerable risks to smallholder farmers - especially in Africa, where they rely on natural resources and traditional practices for pest control. Identifying management practises that suppress pests and enhance natural biocontrol might be the key to outsmarting pests in a climate-smart world. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/how-to-outsmart-pests-and-diseases-in-climate-smart-agriculture-systems/ |
| Description | IAF workshop, 6-9 July 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A four-day workshop was run by the UoL IAF team, attended by representatives from the four IAF country taskforces and country node colleagues. The workshop objectives were to: - Build understanding of IAF outputs and their relationship to the scenario reports and taskforces - Identify how IAF outputs can feed into national policy processes - Inform how the results are presented online Following this workshop, the team approached taskforce representatives for their feedback on the modelling of scenario quadrants (specifically what agricultural land expansion, crop diversity, irrigation and trade they think should be associated with each quadrant) and scheduled meetings with the full country taskforces to finalise this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ILRI / Selian meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The GCRF-AFRICAP Country Coordinator for Tanzania met with a representative of the International Livestock Research Institute and the Tanzania Agriculture Research Institute - Selian in August 2018 and January 2019. The discussions included a briefing on the programme aims and objectives and potential areas for collaboration including ILRI becoming a formal partner. Arrangements for the latter are at an advanced stage and we expect to complete this process in April 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | Inaugural GCRF-AFRICAP knowledge-sharing seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 30 January 2019, the University of Leeds in partnership with the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) launched the GCRF-AFRICAP knowledge-sharing seminar and webinar series. The main objective of the webinar series is to give GCRF-AFRICAP team members across all partner organisations and guest speakers in relevant areas the opportunity to present their work and discuss cross-cutting issues related to implementation. As such, it is open to audiences across the GCRF-AFRICAP network and beyond. The inaugural seminar/webinar took place at the University of Leeds and was led by three GCRF-AFRICAP Research Fellows: Dr Harriet Smith, Dr Joseph Galani and Dr Sarah Chapman who presented on methodological approaches used in the programme. The emphasis of the session was around finding ways of addressing challenges in relation to conducting household surveys (e.g. taking into consideration people`s preferences, cultural beliefs and respecting their privacy) and climate modelling (including selecting and validating regional models). It was attended by over 90 participants, including 30 live attendees in the room at Leeds and 62 attending remotely from 22 countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/inaugural-gcrf-africap-knowledge-sharing-seminar-a-success/ |
| Description | Innovation Bridge/Science Forum South Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and panel debate on interdisciplinary approaches to research on the Sustainable Development Goals. The panel event was broadcast live on South African television. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.innovationbridge.info/ibportal/?q=innovation-bridge-event/programme |
| Description | International Research Management Staff Development Programme workshop series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The AFRICAP capacity-building lead manager was part of a team from South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and the UK that won an award funded by the African Academy of Sciences and the UK's Association of Research Managers and Administrators. She used this to share learning from AFRICAP on best practice in implementing global challenges research through three workshops on the programme life cycle and a toolkit. The initiative both created the foundation of an international research managers' network and ensures some of the AFRICAP legacy objectives are achieved by sharing learning with other professionals in this space. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.aasciences.africa/news/african-and-uk-research-management-professionals-co-create-resour... |
| Description | Interview for BBC Business Daily |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | AFRICAP PI Tim Benton was interviewed as part of a BBC Business Daily feature entitled 'The next agricultural revolution' following the publication of his article with Rob Bailey on 'The paradox of productivity: agricultural productivity promotes food system inefficiency'. In it, he emphasised the effects of overproduction of grains and underproduction of fruit and vegetables on rising obesity and climate change. Results from the AFRICAP scenarios workshops held in September and November 2018 fed into the publication of this paper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csy7js |
| Description | Keynote address at CISANET Strategy Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | AFRICAP partner Civil Society Agriculture Network (CisaNet) launched a new agriculture strategic plan to help farmers access markets, livestock development and nutrition friendly and resilient agriculture sector. The event was funded by the AFRICAP programme and the AFRICAP Country Coordinator was invited to give the keynote address entitled "How Research & Civil Society Partnerships can support Agriculture & Food System Resilience Building" which included presenting on the AFRICAP project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Launch of dedicated GCRF-AFRICAP Twitter account |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A Twitter account was created in August 2018 to provide information on the programme and create an online network beyond the researchers and organisations involved. Tweets about GCRF-AFRICAP publications, events and job vacancies have been liked and retweeted by researchers and research organisations in sub-Saharan Africa and the UK; private sector organisations active in agriculture; and accounts associated with news outlets. There has also been engagement with accounts associated with other GCRF-funded programmes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/gcrfafricap |
| Description | MOOC: Climate Change and Resilience in Food Systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This Massive Open Online Course hosted on the FutureLearn platform, is a virtual course is designed and facilitated by GCRF-AFRICAP researchers from the University of Leeds, Dr Stephen Whitfield and Dr Harriet Smith. Throughout the two-week course participants have the opportunity to discover more about our programme methodologies including scenarios, modelling and fieldwork. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/climate-change-and-resilience-in-food-systems |
| Description | Maize aflatoxin contamination in Regions of Tanzania and Malawi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented AFRICAP results on Maize aflatoxin contamination in Regions of Tanzania and Malawi during the Work session: Improvement of mycotoxins predictive risk modelling for Africa, a side-event of the 3RD ASM JOINT MYTOX-SOUTH CONFERENCE 2022, 7 SEPTEMBER 2022, 09:00 - 13:00, STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA, invited by the African Postharvest Losses Information System (APHLIS), funded by the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Directorate D - Sustainable Resources, Food Security Unit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://asmmytox.com/ |
| Description | Massive online open course (MOOC) Nutritional Approach to Food Security |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A two week Massive Online Open Course was launched in September 2022 focusing on sustainable, climate-smart and nutrition sensitive food systems. The MOOC uses examples from BBSRC-funded research as a basis for the course and to illustrate examples. Several early researchers have contributed material. Some ERCs and collaborators were also interviewed about their research to inspire others into research-associated careers. Several research outputs are linked as MOOC resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/nutrition-sensitive-agriculture |
| Description | Medium article for the UN International Year of Fruits and Vegetables (2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A blog-style article was written, published in the online platform Medium, to celebrate 2021 as the UN International Year of Fruits and Vegetables. The blog details a personal journey of research into fundamental and applied plant sciences, and has a number of actionable insights relating to preventing food loss and waste. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://medium.com/globalfoodleeds/planting-the-seeds-for-a-personal-journey-of-fruits-and-vegetable... |
| Description | Meeting with the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | AFRICAP team members at the University of Leeds met with Estherine Fotabong, Head of the Programme Implementation and Coordination Directorate at AUDA-NEPAD's Planning and Coordinating Agency to present the programme. AUDA-NEPAD has a Memorandum of Understanding with the N8 Research Partnership, a collaboration of the eight most research-intensive universities in the North of England: Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Met agency capacity-strengthening workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A two-hour workshop run by climate science colleagues at Leeds and the UK Met Office was held with participants from met agencies in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia. The workshop focused on sharing the latest research results and interacting with met agency colleagues on the implications of these results for their work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Muheza Learning Alliance - launch and establishment of constitution |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Following the request made by Muheza District during the ESRF-coordinated study tour held in 2020 in Lushoto and Muheza districts, a team of Consultants from Tanzania Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance (TCSAA) visited at Tanga Regional Office to launch the Muheza Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance (MCSAA) in Muheza District. The team was welcomed by the Secretary, who was briefed about the AFRICAP project and its activities from 2018 to date; including the establishment of the MCSAA at Muheza District to be implemented in the coming months.The Secretary was happy with the request from Muheza District and the positive response from the AFRICAP project, granting permission to proceed with the exercise. Thereafter, the team met with a regional group of experts from Agriculture and Natural Resource/Forestry regarding potential stakeholders to be involved in the Muheza CSA Alliance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://africap.info/gcrf-africap-muheza-climate-smart-agriculture-alliance-stakeholders-mapping-act... |
| Description | NAMC and ZIM - AMA Explore Collaborations: Visit to AMA by Dr Ndumiso Mazibuko and Ms Nomantande Yeki |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Visit to the Zimbabwean Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) by NAMC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | National Impacts Meeting presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the first UK climate change impacts meeting. Sparked further conversations about data and methods for the project specifically. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | News story published by The Guardian Tanzania on the study tour and AFRICAP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A news story was published by The Guardian Tanzania on the policy engagement study tour and AFRICAP entitled 'Why climate agricultural techniques are resilient for climate change'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/study-tour-unearths-pathways-to-resilient-food-and-agriculture-systems-in-tanza... |
| Description | Newsletter August 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We were joined in March 2020 by a new Communications Officer who created a newsletter format. The first newsletter was disseminated in August 2020 and viewed by 325 readers. It included stories on spin-off programme FSNet-Africa, the impact of AFRICAP work on farmers in Tanzania and Malawi, the impacts of COVID-19 on food security and programme implementation and a thought piece on the role of The Free State in South African food security. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/tanzania-smallholder-farmers-outsmarting-climate-change/ |
| Description | Newsletter January 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The first newsletter of 2021 reached 490 readers and included the expert views listed separately as well as pieces written by media specialists on lead partner FANRPAN's regional engagement activities, production practices among Tanzanian farmers and a Q&A piece with researchers involved in the Cultivate Africa conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Participation in Regional Food Systems Dialogue: Stakeholder Engagement to Discuss Future Pathways of Sustainable Food Systems in Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Three Leeds-based AFRICAP researcher Dougill, Quinn and Sallu (Sallu also representing AGRISYS project) were invited by host, University of Pretoria, to be part of the Engagement Support Networks at the Regional Food Systems Dialogue focussed on Stakeholder Engagement to Discuss Future Pathways of Sustainable Food Systems in Africa. The event brought together Vice Chancellors from the African continent alongside experts working on food systems sustainability and resilience in Africa to 'Re-imagine universities for impactful transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation'. Each researcher helped facilitate dialogue in regional breakout groups. Outcomes from this dialogue will be fed into the UN Food Systems Summit later in 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/forums/southernafrica/2021/ |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - GCRF-AFRICAP Africa's future food & nutrition security: Impacts under different climate, trade and policy scenarios |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Ensuring people in Africa have the right amounts and the right kinds of food to support healthy lifestyles is increasingly challenging. Climatic and population pressures will only exacerbate these challenges. But with proactive policies to support appropriate agricultural production and international food trade, future food and nutritional security should be attainable without compromising other sustainability goals. Drawing on recent GCRF AFRICAP research, this webinar considered some of the major challenges and potential nutritional outcomes associated with different mid-century climate and policy scenarios in Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. Participants were invited to share their perspectives on what this means for food system and trade policy throughout the region. The event closed with a discussion and Q&A, facilitated by the event co-chairs, Prof Caroline Orfila and Prof Yun Yun Gong. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/events/africas-future-food-nutrition-security-impacts-under-different-climate-t... |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - GCRF-AFRICAP Biodiversity, Crop Yields & Climate Change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Climate risks pose unprecedented risks to agricultural food production. Farmers cope with climate risks through adjustments in farm management practices. In recent years, Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) has also been proposed as a framework to manage climate risks. Transformations in agricultural landscapes due to changes in farm management or through the adoption of new CSA technologies are likely to affect agricultural biodiversity, and in turn, food system sustainability and resilience. Understanding of how farm-level management practices and CSA affect biodiversity is poor, yet it is crucial for identifying the trade-offs and synergies among food production, biodiversity, and food system sustainability under climate change in order to inform a more sustainable and resilient food system of the future. In this GCRF-AFRICAP seminar, Held 27/05/2021, Dr Hemant Tripathi unpacked AFRICAP's agroecology research on the effects of farm management and CSA practices on invertebrate diversity and crop yields in the East Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. He provided insights into the ecological implications of CSA and traditional farm management at the local and landscape scales. The future of crop pests and diseases, associated crop yield losses, and biological control mechanisms under different land, climate, and trade scenarios in Africa was also discussed. The event closed with a response from seminar discussant Sina Luchen (FAO), followed by an audience Q&A, facilitated by the event chair, Dr Susannah Sallu. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/events/biodiversity-crop-yields-climate-change/ |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - GCRF-AFRICAP Creating climate-resilient agri-food systems in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In this webinar, co-hosted with Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs), we featured AFRICAP Chatham House fellows Agatha Kiama and Ndumiso Mazibuko and their work on creating resilient agri-food systems. We are also honoured to have welcomed the Hon Sindiso Ngwenya, former Secretary General of COMESA, as the webinar discussant. Dr Mazibuko spoke to his work on Southern African food systems in light of climate change and Covid-19. He took a deeper look at the interlinking issues of food security, nutrition, climate change and food systems in southern Africa and considered how practitioners and policymakers can build more equitable, resilient and better food systems. Agatha Kiama shared her research on how learning alliances can best be used as a tool to build agricultural resilience. With most African countries still struggling to adapt production systems to the impacts of climate change, the session showcased how learning alliances can facilitate innovation by promoting dialogue and knowledge sharing, uptake or adaptation of technologies and practices, and policy engagement. The event closed with reflections from the Hon Ngwenya and Q&A, facilitated by the event chair, Richard King. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://africap.info/events/creating-resilient-agri-food-systems-in-sub-saharan-africa/ |
| Description | Participatory scenarios workshop (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Participatory Scenarios Workshop on 2o September brought together stakeholders to discuss the drivers shaping the future of agri-food systems in Tanzania, and to decide on sets of plausible alternative futures. These narrative futures set the backdrop to modelling development pathways to maximise the positives and minimise the negatives to ensure "the Africa we Want" of the African Union's Agenda 2063. Participants included national and regional government officials and policy stakeholders, research academics and civil society representatives; plus across-theme and across-country members of Team AFRICAP. Among the guests of honour were Tanzania's Minister of Agriculture. We discussed and developed four standard agri-food scenarios split by two key drivers. These drivers are factors that will shape the future of agri-food systems, but whose development is uncertain. The two critical uncertainties in Tanzania were climate risks and how they would play out and market access and technology innovation and adoption (weak versus strong). Narrative scenarios and a report are being drafted, and will be sent to stakeholders (including those not present) for input. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.esrftz.org/newsdetail.php?id=242 |
| Description | Participatory scenarios workshop (Lilongwe, Malawi) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Participatory Scenarios Workshop on 15 November brought together stakeholders to discuss the drivers shaping the future of agri-food systems in Malawi, and to decide on sets of plausible alternative futures. These narrative futures set the backdrop to modelling development pathways to maximise the positives and minimise the negatives to ensure "the Africa we Want" of the African Union's Agenda 2063. Participants included national and regional government officials and policy stakeholders, research academics and civil society representatives; plus across-theme and across-country members of Team AFRICAP. Among the guests of honour were Malawi's Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development. We discussed and developed four standard agri-food scenarios split by two key drivers. These drivers are factors that will shape the future of agri-food systems, but whose development is uncertain. The two critical uncertainties in Malawi were climate risks and how they would play out and effective policy aligned to deliver food systems outcomes (versus poorly aligned, silo-ed, policy). Narrative scenarios and a report are being drafted, and will be sent to stakeholders (including those not present) for input. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://africap.info/malawi-convenes-scenarios-workshop/ |
| Description | Participatory scenarios workshop (Lusaka, Zambia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Participatory Scenarios Workshop on 27 September brought together stakeholders to discuss the drivers shaping the future of agri-food systems in Zambia, and to decide on sets of plausible alternative futures. These narrative futures set the backdrop to modelling development pathways to maximise the positives and minimise the negatives to ensure "the Africa we Want" of the African Union's Agenda 2063. Participants included national and regional government officials and policy stakeholders, research academics and civil society representatives; plus across-theme and across-country members of Team AFRICAP. Among the guests of honour were Zambia's Permanent Secretary of Agriculture. We discussed and developed four standard agri-food scenarios split by two key drivers. These drivers are factors that will shape the future of agri-food systems, but whose development is uncertain. The two critical uncertainties in Zambia were climate risks and how they would play out and market access and functioning local to global. Narrative scenarios and a report are being drafted, and will be sent to stakeholders (including those not present) for input. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Participatory scenarios workshop (Pretoria, South Africa) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Participatory Scenarios Workshop on 12 November brought together stakeholders to discuss the drivers shaping the future of agri-food systems in South Africa, and to decide on sets of plausible alternative futures. These narrative futures set the backdrop to modelling development pathways to maximise the positives and minimise the negatives to ensure "the Africa we Want" of the African Union's Agenda 2063. Participants included national and regional government officials and policy stakeholders, research academics and civil society representatives; plus across-theme and across-country members of Team AFRICAP. Among the guests of honour were South Africa's Deputy Minister of Agriculture. We discussed and developed four standard agri-food scenarios split by two key drivers. These drivers are factors that will shape the future of agri-food systems, but whose development is uncertain. The two critical uncertainties in South Africa were climate risks and how they would play out and market access and land tenure and reform (little versus radical). Narrative scenarios and a report are being drafted, and will be sent to stakeholders (including those not present) for input. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://africap.info/south-africa-convenes-scenarios-workshop/ |
| Description | Pests and justice: improving African food production |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | GCRF-AFRICAP researchers Dr Steve Sait and Dr Stephen Whitfield ask: how can we help farmers get fair access to pesticides to control fall armyworm. Published on the University of Leeds' Medium account to spread awareness of the pest and disease research being conducted on the programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://medium.com/university-of-leeds/pests-and-justice-improving-african-food-production-412269c1d... |
| Description | Policy Briefing (Malawi National Planning Commission) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | National Briefing on Climate Scenarios and Risks over the next 40 years with specific reference to water-energy-food nexus trade-offs and climate sensitivity of hydrological infrastructure investments and cropping plans. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Poster presentation at ACRC2019, Ethiopia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Presented a poster at the African Climate Risks Conference 2019, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. Had discussions with several people at the poster, poster was also viewed by others during the 3 day conference. Some of the discussions have led to follow-up discussions about data, outputs from AFRICAP and potential collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at BRECcIA capacity-building conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In December 2021, fellow GCRF Grow programme BRECcIA ran an event called 'Transformational International Research Partnerships: What Next For Capacity Development?'. The AFRICAP programme manager and regional policy officer were invited to present on 'Strengthening Research Collaborations across Borders and Disciplines through Organisational Capacity-Building' which allowed best practice and knowledge-sharing on the implementation of the Partner Institutional Viability Assessment work under AFRICAP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation at EGU 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Remote presentation at EGU 2020 of AFRICAP work on agricultural suitability using CORDEX, CP4A and P25. Audience was mainly scientific. Questions about project and study after talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation at EGU General Assembly 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Over 50 researchers from across the globe were at the EGU General Assembly (Session SSS8.3) 2021 where I made a presentation on the essential role of farmers in improving soil health through climate-smart agriculture. This led to discussions about hybrid approach to soil science as a way of enhancing adoption of sustainable land management practices to increase agricultural productivity and other co-benefits such as climate change mitigation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/EGU21-14250.html |
| Description | Presentation at Global Climate Smart Agriculture Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Susannah Sallu presented a talk at global climate smart agriculture conference in a session entitled Fostering enabling policies and institutions. The talk was entitled: The missing middle-a key institutional challenge for CSA policy implementation/upscaling: Evidence and ways forward in Africa, based on research work associated with GCRF-AFRICAP |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://globalcsaconference.org/fostering-enabling-policies-and-institutions/ |
| Description | Presentation at Impala Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of AFRICAP climate modelling work at the Impala Conference. Discussed how CP4 model was being used for applications and issues with the representation of climate in key areas. Led to discussions with experts based at Met Office on planned work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at The Biennial Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Stakeholders Conference 1-2 December 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation entitled 'How Does Nutrition Feature in Climate Smart Agriculture in Southern Africa?'. Presented research conducted by MSc student Shaun Beattie, supported by Dr. Susannah Sallu as part of AFRICAP activities. Reported the key findings of a systematic review of policy documents from Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. Presentation was well received and much discussion was generated due to the key message ( general absence of nutrition within CSA policy and implementation plans) being topical in policy circles. An article has been submitted to the publication output associated with this conference - Sustainability journal special issue. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://ypard.net/opportunity/biennial-africa-climate-smart-agriculture-stakeholders-conference |
| Description | Presentation at the African Ministerial Conference on Environment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The FANRPAN regional policy officer and agro-ecology postdoctoral research associate from the University of Ledes presented on scenarios planning and convened a side event in partnership with COMESA on supporting climate change adaptation. Government representatives from all AFRICAP focal countries and AUDA-NEPAD (The New Partnership for Africa's Developmen) were present. A representative from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation office in Accra, Ghana was interested in the work and asked for a copy of the full AFRICAP scenarios report. Other representatives of civil society requested presentations and COMESA colleagues endorsed the scenarios methodology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at the Climate Smart Agriculture Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A doctoral researcher aligned with AFRICAP presented a poster at the climate-smart agriculture (CSA) global biannual science conference, which was held under the theme "Transforming food systems under a changing climate". The conference was about bringing together scientists, entrepreneurs, development practitioners, and game changers from all sectors to a key global forum for scientific exchange and taking action to underpin implementation of CSA. The conference aimed to achieve the following objectives: • To mobilize the knowledge needed for food systems transformation under climate change. • To catalyse the partnerships needed for transformation, bringing together all key stakeholders, from scientists, policy makers, investors and farmers. The poster title was: 'Implications of soybean transitions on nutrition wellbeing and rural livelihoods: insights from a household survey in Zambia' The researcher also talked about the broader objectives of the GCRF-AFRICAP project as well as his own research with various conference participants. He participated in several side meetings, which included: • Fostering investment in climate-smart agriculture through innovative engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa organised by AFRICAP partner the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN). • Reshaping supply chains, food retail, marketing and procurement organised by the conference committee. Other presentations by AFRICAP team members included: - 'The missing middle-a key institutional challenge for CSA policy implementation/upscaling: Evidence and ways forward in Africa' and 'the importance of the food system 'missing middle', i.e. from farm gate to retailer' by Dr Susannah Sallu, Tanzania Country Coordinator - 'Combined use of numerical and conceptual models for climate-smart food systems' by Dr Marcelo Galdos, involving in AFRICAP modelling activities. AFRICAP partner FANRPAN ran a side event entitled 'Fostering investment in climate-smart agriculture through innovative engagement in sub-Saharan Africa' which was attended by approximately 35 people. The event showcased AFRICAP - in particular the theatre for policy advocacy tool that will be used later in the programme. The event strengthened FANRPAN's partnership with GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) and the two organisations are now planning another side event at COP25 as a result of this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://globalcsaconference.org/ |
| Description | Presentation at the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The AFRICAP soil science research associate gave an oral presentation on "Building resilience into agricultural systems in sub-Saharan Africa through improvement in soil structure" at the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Summit which took place 26-28 September 2019 in Berlin, Germany. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at the XV Cell Wall Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Work conducted by colleagues in the School of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Leeds related to AFRICAP was presented at the XV Cell Wall Meeting in Cambridge which took place 7-12 July 2019. The poster was entitled 'Mitigation against Aflatoxin B1 Contamination by Binding to Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation in PhD researcher poster competition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An AFRICAP-aligned researcher produced a poster based on her research exploring gendered influences in the adoption of climate smart agriculture in Tanzania for her institute's staff away day. This sparked a lot of interest amongst the circa 70 staff and postgraduate students present and discussions around future collaborations, with a picture of the poster then being circulated on Twitter to reach a wider audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/SRILeeds/status/1138426907341545472 |
| Description | Presentation to Malawi Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | AFRICAP colleagues from the UK Met Office presented the results of present-day extremes research to colleagues at the Malawi Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services (DCCMS). They received feedback from these key stakeholders on the analyses and how they are presented in key engagement outputs, and also built capacity among the team by sharing key AFRICAP findings and recommendations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation to parliamentary Portfolio Committee on agriculture, land reform and rural development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues at country node the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) and University of Leeds (UoL) presented to the South African Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on agriculture, land reform and rural development to showcase AFRICAP work - in particular the IFEED tool. The impact of this was to directly link with the target audience for the tool who will benefit from the data provided in decision-making for a climate-resilient future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation to the Crucible early career researchers Global Development Lab |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The monitoring and evaluation approach used in AFRICAP was presented to early career researchers developing interdisciplinary projects to address global challenges. This included best practice in M&E and advice based on direct experiences in AFRICAP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation to the European Association of Development Research & Training Institutes (EADI) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Virtual Dialogue: Consistent Injustice Within Environment-Development Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa and Possible Ways Forward, 11 February, 11.00 CET Susannah Sallu was the keynote speaker presenting on 'Consistent Injustice Within Environment-Development Intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa and Possible Ways Forward' at this virtual dialogue organised by the EADI. Knowledge sharing and networking outcomes. Audience largely academic, policy think tanks, professional development practitioners, postdoctoral researchers and postgraduate students. International in reach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.eadi.org/events/2021.02/new-virtual-dialogue-consistent-injustice-within-environment-dev... |
| Description | Press coverage of Malawi kick-off event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | On Thursday 12th July 2018, CISANET, in conjunction with University of Leeds and FANRPAN, held a Kick Off meeting to mark the start of GCRF-AFRICAP project in Malawi. CISANET invited twelve journalists (including camera people) from eight media houses to provide media coverage for this event. Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS), Times Radio, Capital FM, Joy FM and Malawi Broadcasting Coroporation (MBC) Radio One covered and broadcasted the event. Zodiak TV, Times TV and MBC TV covered and beamed the event in their news programmes. Three print publications published (The Nation Publications Limited (NPL), Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) and Globe Publications) and two online publications (SMASH and Maravi Post) also covered the event. The result was that information about the programme and the issues it is trying to address was disseminated to a wide audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.smashmw.com/launch-of-8m-research-programme-to-transform-agriculture-and-food-systems-in-... |
| Description | Press release on Cheney fellowship |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sithembile Mwamakamba was interviewed by University of Leeds PR colleagues and a press release produced on her experiences of the Cheney Fellowship. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/university-of-leeds-cheney-fellowship-strengthens-africap-partnership/ |
| Description | Primary school outreach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 30 KS1 primary school pupils attended a talk on climate science and did a related activity in small groups. Increased awareness of climate and weather issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Public lecture on fungi at Eden Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public lecture on significance of "invisible" fungi to general public, e.g. agriculture, evolution, climate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Regional Awareness Workshop on Low Emissions Livestock: Supporting Policy Through Science in Southern Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues from AFRICAP lead partner the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) represented AFRICAP at the 'Regional Awareness-Raising Workshop on Low Emissions Livestock: Supporting Policy Through Science in Southern Africa' conference in collaboration with the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases, World Bank, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture & Food Security (CCAFS), Center for the Coordination of Agricultural Research and Development in Southern Africa (CCARDESA) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). The conference took place 23-25 July 2019 and included representatives from a range of regional and multilateral organisations, government and research institutes. FANRPAN colleagues presented on the livestock-focused work taking place within AFRICAP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Regional Forum on Climate Risks and Food Security Resilience, Lusaka, Zambia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | AFRICAP SAB Member, Dr Nalishebo Mebeelo, and the AFRICAP Regional Policy Officer, Ms Sithembile Mwamakamba, participated in the COMESA/World Bank forum on climate adaptation and food systems resilience in Eastern and Southern Africa. The two-day forum provided a platform for high-level policymakers from across the Eastern and Southern Africa region to share their experiences and lessons learned in preparing for and responding to the 2015-16 El Nino event. The Forum also highlighted the need for more evidence-driven "no regrets" policies and investment strategies for strengthening the climate resilience of agricultural systems and food security in the region. AFRICAP works to address this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Regional Policy Dialogue - Durban |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The theme of this policy dialogue was "Resilient African agriculture and food systems: securing prosperity and health for all". Claire Quinn was involved in a panel discussion considering how we build resilience for adaptation to climate change in agriculture in Africa. The purpose was one of knowledge exchange between researchers, practitioners and policy makers in relation to resilience in African agriculture in order to make progress towards climate resilient and productive agriculture in Africa. The dialogue involved over 100 delegates from across Africa, including DAC list countries (e.g. Malawi, Tanzania). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://dialogue2017.fanrpan.org/ |
| Description | Regional Policy Dialogue - Maputo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This regional policy dialogue was held in Maputo, Mozambique in November 2018 and hosted by the Forum for Agricultural Research, Natural Resources and Analysis Network (FARNPAN), Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS), and the Graca Machel Trust (GMT). Over 190 delegates from 21 countries (including DAC list countries in Africa) attended the dialogue, including representatives from government, civil society, research organizations, intergovernmental organisations, private sector actors, farmer organisations and donors. The dialogue focused on knowledge exchange for "Transforming Africa's Agriculture". Claire Quinn presented the keynote in a session on "How can Africa increase investments in climate resilient Agriculture". The presentation focused on how climate change will impact agriculture and food systems in Africa over the next two decades and identified potential ways forward for agricultural transformation under uncertainty, specifically the scenarios work of GCRF-AFRICAP. The presentation highlighted how this research will engage with policy makers to facilitate resilient and Sustainable Development Goal-compliant agri-food systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Remote dialogue with Malawi's National Planning Commission and National Statistical Office |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Team members from country node Civil Society Agriculture Network (CISANET), lead partner the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), Chatham House, and the University of Leeds (UoL) held a remote dialogue with members of Malawi's National Planning Commission (NPC) and National Statistical Office (NSO). The dialogue allowed AFRICAP work on food and agriculture system resilience, primarily in modelling, to be presented and plans to be made for AFRICAP and the NPC to collaborate in a range of areas such as agriculture that contribute to wealth creation in Vision 2063. This includes AFRICAP team members providing input to the Vision 2063 report, due to be drafted between June and August 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Research to innovation: Solutions to the climate crisis in Africa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Despite its low contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change. Already, the region is experiencing disproportionate impacts, from increasing temperatures and sea levels, to changing precipitation patterns and more extreme weather, all threatening human health and safety, food and water security and socio-economic development. Increasing climate ambition and activity is emerging across African countries, but there remains a central role for collaborative research initiatives in driving innovation of climate-resilient solutions. In the run up to the COP26 later this year, University of Leeds and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) convened this event to discuss priorities for Africa in the face of the climate crisis and examine the role of research in delivering the necessary solutions to pressing climate change issues on the continent. The AFRICAP Regional Policy Officer attended in order to provide input on key AFRICAP objectives and results. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://ccafs.cgiar.org/events/research-innovation-solutions-climate-crisis-africa |
| Description | Royal Entomological Society Keynote speech |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr. Chris Hassall presented a keynote speech to the UK Royal Entomological Society, discussing our two current radar entomology research projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | SARIMA 2021 - Partner Institutional Viability Assessment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA) provides a platform where research and innovation (R&I) management professionals from Southern Africa (and beyond) can come together as a community to connect, learn and support each other. During the 2021 conference, the AFRICAP programme manager and regional policy officer were invited to share their paper on organisational capacity-building activities, specifically the Partner Institutional Viability Assessment. This allowed us to share lessons for others involved in designing and implementing capacity-building programmes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | School of Earth and Environment, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Annual departmental seminar to advertise current modelling research of the Africap project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Seminar by University of Leeds staff at Sokoine University of Agriculture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | During a scoping trip to Tanzania, several members of University of Leeds staff gave a public presentation at Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) on 18 March 2019 on 'progressing research partnerships for productive, sustainable and resilience agri-food systems in Tanzania'. It was attended by 35 members of staff and students and accompanied a partnership-building visit to SUA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Session on climate resilience research in the Global South at the UK Climate Impacts and Risk Assessment Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The AFRICAP capacity-building lead curated a session on 'Research climate resilience in the Global South' at the Climate Impacts and Risk Assessment National Meeting. It included presentations and posters by AFRICAP researchers and the panel discussion featured a member of fellow GCRF Grow programme African SWIFT. The meeting was attended by a range of practitioners involved in climate impacts and resilience work, including the private sector and non-governmental organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://climate.leeds.ac.uk/events/climate-impact-and-risk-assessment-national-meeting/ |
| Description | Site visits with Qwa Qwa DARD staff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Field session with local agricultural extension and support workers, meeting with smallholder farmers to discuss farming practices and climate issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Social media campaign for World Hunger Day 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A one-day campaign for World Hunger Day on 28 May, including a feature story on the AFRICAP website, was published highlighting five ways the project addresses food security in Africa, and correlating social media posts. The campaign was highly successful, accounting for significant increases in digital engagement and traffic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/five-ways-africap-addresses-food-security-in-africa/ |
| Description | Sokoine University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The GCRF-AFRICAP Country Coordinator for Tanzania met with two academics at Sokoine University in Tanzania in March 2018, November 2018 and January 2019. The discussions included a briefing on the programme aims and objectives and potential areas for collaboration. In March 2019, academics from the GCRF-AFRICAP programme based at the University of Leeds are due to hold a presentation at Sokoine University and meet further with colleagues there to further this collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | South-North partnerships in an agri-food system research programme: Lessons learned |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The AFRICAP programme manager wrote a piece for the Global Food and Environment Institute blog on the importance of building research capacity at an individual and institutional level, the value of face-to-face interactions, challenges posed by COVID and the need to think about programme legacy, so that knowledge is preserved and shared beyond the project's lifetime. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://medium.com/globalfoodleeds/south-north-partnerships-in-an-agri-food-system-research-programm... |
| Description | Southern African Development Community (SADC) forum for non-state actors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN attended the Southern African Development Community (SADC) forum for non-state actors on the sidelines of the SADC summit to provide input from the AFRICAP programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Stakeholder and policymaker workshop, Bloemfontein. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Workshop bringing together representatives of national (South Africa) and provincial (Free State) government agencies as well as academics and agricultural stakeholders to discuss and approve focal sites for in depth research, linked to the DRDLR AgriParks initiative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Stakeholder validation meeting of oil seeds report - Zambia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues at the country node, the Agricultural Consultative Forum (ACF), held a stakeholder meeting to validate the results included in their oil seeds report which will inform the development of a National Diversification Strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Stakeholder workshop (Bloemfontein, South Africa) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The workshop served both as the national "kick-off" meeting for the AFRICAP project in South Africa, as well as an initial stakeholder engagement session to discuss climate smart agriculture as it applies to the country. The participants included representatives of several government departments (including Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and the National Agricultural Marketing Council), as well as NGOs, farmers and academics. After presentations about the project, and about climate-smart agriculture issues, the workshop broke into parallel working-groups discussing grains, horticulture and livestock issues. Feedback from these sessions helped narrow down geographical areas and crop systems to explore further in developing the national implementation of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.fanrpan.org/sites/default/files/Final%20FANRPAN%20Digest%20issue%201%202%20August%202018... |
| Description | Stakeholder workshop (Bloemfontein, South Africa) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) in partnership with the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), the University of Leeds, Chatham House and the UK Met Office convened an in-country stakeholder engagement workshop from the 14th -15 February 2019 at Southern Sun Hotel in Bloemfontein, South Africa.The workshop was attended by 35 key stakeholders representing, the University of Free State, the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, FANRPAN, NAMC, University of Leeds and the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. The workshop followed the scenarios meeting that took place on the 12th November 2018 at Burgers park Hotel in Pretoria, Gauteng. The main objective of the workshop was to plan for the key activities that will be taking place in the country under the AFRICAP programme, in particular the household survey and the theatre for policy advocacy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/africap-team-in-south-africa-convenes-stakeholder-engagement-workshop/ |
| Description | Stakeholder workshop (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Organised by partner ESRF, the main objective of the workshop was to introduce the four-year project to key stakeholders in Tanzania working within the food, agriculture and development space. AFRICAP seeks to develop pathways to address challenges in the future. Speaking at the launch, the Minister of Agriculture noted the timeliness of the launch of the AFRICAP programme given the recent unveiling of the Agriculture Sectoral Development Programme II, with the main objective of transforming the agricultural sector (crops, livestock & fisheries) towards higher productivity, commercialization level and smallholder farmer income for improved livelihood, food security and nutrition. He welcomed the project and congratulated ESRF and the GCRF-AFRICAP project team for their interest in contributing towards agricultural sector development through research and capacity building with the ultimate aim of reducing the impacts of climate change to the most vulnerable in society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.esrftz.org/newsdetail.php?id=242 |
| Description | Stakeholder workshop (Lilongwe, Malawi) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | GCRF-AFRICAP Malawi-based partner the Civil Society Agriculture Network (CISANET) organised a programme launch meeting on 12 July 2018 at Bingu International Conference Centre, in Lilongwe, Malawi. The purpose of the meeting was to introduce the GCRF AFRICAP project to stakeholders in Malawi and build a pool of partners to work with at national level. The 54 participants represented relevant government departments, non-government organizations, farmer organizations, universities, researchers, civil society organizations among others. During the meeting - facilitated by CISANET - attendees deliberated on how the project should work with key stakeholders in the development of sustainable, productive, climate smart agricultural systems to meet food security and economic development needs. Discussions also centred on assessing how food, agriculture and natural resources policies can be developed so that they support the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Mr Chesterman Kumwenda from the Malawi Food, Agriculture Organisation (FAO) office presented a update on Malawi's progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). He welcomed the GCRF-AFRICAP project and highlighted the need for the team to link up with ongoing activities in the country. Participants were interested to find out about the role that existing research will play in the project, and how the research created from GCRF-AFRICAP will be disseminated as well as proposing areas for consideration in the programme research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.cisanetmw.org/index.php/142-press-release-gcrf-africap-kicks-off-in-malawi |
| Description | Study tour to Tanga, Tanzania |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Representatives of country partner the Economic and Social Research Foundation used content from University of Leeds researchers to run a week-long study tour for district officials and farmer representatives, covering areas such as climate risk and uncertainty, agriculture and food system resilience and farm management techniques in climate-smart agriculture. Feedback from participants was positive and indicated that their skills and knowledge had increased through the initiatives. Areas for potential future research and capacity-building activities in the relevant districts were identified and will be discussed further with TCSAA representatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/study-tour-unearths-pathways-to-resilient-food-and-agriculture-systems-in-tanza... |
| Description | Talk at Global Climate Smart Agriculture Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Susannah Sallu presented the following talk as an invited speaker at the 'Food System Resilience in the context of CSA' side event at the Global Climate Smart Agriculture Conference. The talk was entitled: The importance of the food system 'missing middle' based on research work associated with GCRF-AFRICAP |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://globalcsaconference.org/food-system-resilience-in-the-context-of-csa/ |
| Description | Tanzania Forest Conservation Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The GCRF-AFRICAP Country Coordinator for Tanzania met with a representative of the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group in March 2018. The discussions included a briefing on the programme aims and objectives and potential areas for collaboration including the field research in the East Usambara Mountains. A scoping trip taking place in March 2019 will include a visit to this region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | Tanzania national workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues at country node organisation the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), FANRPAN and University of Leeds (UoL) held an online meeting with national policy stakeholders (delayed from March 2020 due to COVID-19) to discuss the scenarios for Tanzania's food system previously developed; present on key programme outputs; and identify potential climate related risks to current policy and explore ways forward to build capacities, knowledge communities, tools and infrastructures required to achieve productive, sustainable and resilient agri-food systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://africap.info/africap-tanzanian-policy-workshop-featured-in-national-media/ |
| Description | Tanzania policy engagement: Ministry of Agriculture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The ESRF team met with the Minister of Agriculture and his Senior staff. Ms. Vivian Kazi from ESRF presented AFRICAP programme overview, its objectives, themes and activities done since the start of the project in 2018. She also presented on the output of the AFRICAP in Tanzania including publications, research reports, as well as capacity building activities supported by the project such as trainings and study tour. The reports were also handed over to the MOA team. Dr. Mbungu, AFRICAP iFEED champion, took through the MOA team on iFEED as one of the activities under the AFRICAP. He took them through the iFEED objectives as well as activities and results. The reports of the iFEED were also shared with the MOA team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Tanzania policy engagement: Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The ESRF team met with the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture on 6th Feb 2022 at the parliamentary ground. Ms. Vivian Kazi from ESRF presented AFRICAP programme overview, its objectives, themes and activities done since the start of the project in 2018. She also presented on the output of the AFRICAP in Tanzania including publications, research reports, as well as capacity building activities supported by the project such as trainings and study tour. The reports were also handed over to the committee. Dr. Mbungu, AFRICAP iFEED champion, took through the committee members on iFEED as one of the activities under the AFRICAP. He took them through the iFEED objectives as well as activities and results. The reports of the iFEED were also shared with the committee members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Tanzania policy engagement: President's Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PORALG) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The ESRF team met with the Acting Director of Sector Coordination namely Engineer Nyanda from the PORALG and his colleague. Ms. Vivian Kazi from ESRF presented AFRICAP programme overview, its objectives, themes and activities done since the start of the project in 2018. She also presented on the output of the AFRICAP in Tanzania including publications, research reports, as well as capacity building activities supported by the project such as trainings and study tour. The reports were also handed over to the PORALG team. Dr. Mbungu, AFRICAP iFEED champion, took through the PORALG team on iFEED as one of the activities under the AFRICAP. He took them through the iFEED objectives as well as activities and results. The reports of the iFEED were also shared with the PORALG team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Tanzania policy engagement: Prime Minister's Office: Disaster Management Unit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | A team from AFRICAP Tanzania partner Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) met with the Assistant Director and his team from the Disaster Management Unit at the PMO. Ms. Vivian Kazi from ESRF presented AFRICAP programme overview, its objectives, themes and activities done since the start of the project in 2018. She also presented on the output of the AFRICAP in Tanzania including publications, research reports, as well as capacity building activities supported by the project such as trainings and study tour. The reports were also handed over to the PMO team. Dr. Mbungu, AFRICAP iFEED champion, took through the PMO team on iFEED as one of the activities under the AFRICAP. He took them through the iFEED objectives as well as activities and results. The reports of the iFEED were also shared with the PMO team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Tanzania policy engagement: Tanga mission |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The ESRF team travelled to Tanga to meet with key policy makers at Sub national level (Tanga region office, TARI Mlingano, as well as Muheza and Lushoto Districts) as part of Agricultural and Food-system Resilience: Increasing Capacity and Advising Policy (AFRICAP)project policy engagement. The aim of these policy engagement meetings was to communicate research findings to a wider range of stakeholders, and enhance existing professional partnerships between GCRF-AFRICAP researchers and policy makers. There were several requests for further information, plans to roll out iFEED further and other dissemination events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Tanzania sub-national workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Colleagues at country node organisation the Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF), FANRPAN and University of Leeds (UoL) held an online meeting with sub-national policy stakeholders (delayed from March 2020 due to COVID-19) to discuss the scenarios for Tanzania's food system previously developed; present on key programme outputs; and identify potential climate related risks to current policy and explore ways forward to build capacities, knowledge communities, tools and infrastructures required to achieve productive, sustainable and resilient agri-food systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Tanzania visit - 4-8 March 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Representatives from GCRF-AFRICAP partner organisations Economic and Social Research Foundation (Tanzania) and FANRPAN (South Africa) met with the Agriculture Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture; the Agriculture Permanent Secretary of the President's Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PORALG); and the Agricultural Permanent Secretary of the Vice President's Office during a visit in March 2019. The talk introduced the programme aims and achievements to dates and discussed an upcoming research scoping trip to be conducted by programme team members from the University of Leeds and ESRF in March 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The National Dialogue on Climate Smart Agriculture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The National Dialogue on Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) took place in South Africa to review the strategic framework and implementation plan. FANRPAN colleagues attended and participated in a panel looking at CSA as an approach to sustainable and inclusive agri-food production and presented on GCRF-AFRICAP as an alternative approach to CSA by including fieldwork, scenario planning, modelling, policy engagement and capacity-building within one initiative. The event led to a request from the Department of Agriculture to liaise with FANRPAN alongside colleagues from the Departments of Water and Environment to create a multi-sectoral approach to CSA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | The inaugural meeting of the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land Use and Energy (FABLE) consortium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A representative from GCRF-AFRICAP project partner Chatham House attended the inaugural meeting of the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land Use and Energy (FABLE) Pathways Consortium. The Consortium aims to discuss how countries can develop integrated pathways towards sustainable land-use and food systems that are consistent with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This sparked discussion on the potential for a partnership between the FABLE Consortium and AFRICAP. There is overlap because the Consortium includes a regional team from South Africa that will liaise with governments, business, civil society organisations, and other stakeholders to consult on modelling and ensure that the pathways can inform national and international policy processes. New country teams are being established and other AFRICAP focus countries (Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia) may be included in this process. As such, AFRICAP's collaboration with the Consortium could go beyond academic collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://unsdsn.org/news/2018/01/05/pathways-towards-sustainable-land-use-and-food-systems/ |
| Description | UK FCDO webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | During this webinar, AFRICAP team members at Chatham House, FANRPAN and the University of Leeds presented an overview of the GCRF-AFRICAP project (GCRF-Agricultural and Food System Resilience: Increasing Capacity and Advising Policy; see www.africap.info), focussing on the novel methods developed, policy-oriented results to date, and remaining plans for regional and national engagement. These methods included a bespoke integrated assessment framework - the integrated Future Estimator for Emissions and Diets (iFEED). iFEED combines data, modelling, and expert knowledge into one platform, providing an extensive evidence base to inform policy pathways for a climate-smart, food- and nutrition-secure future for sub-Saharan Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | UN Food System Summit dialogues |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | FANRPAN held two UN Food System Summit dialogues in late May 2021 on climate-smart agriculture and building resilient food systems. The event allowed engagement with key regional stakeholders in food and agriculture system resilience under the umbrella of the UN Food Systems Summit process. In July 2021, another Food System Summit dialogue was held, featuring presentations from an AFRICAP co-I at the University of Leeds, aligned PhD students at the University of Leeds, an AFRICAP Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and the African iFEED Coordinator. This event explored the equity and justice dimensions of food systems, and highlighted some of the tools and approaches for more equitably visioning and governing transformation within these systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://summitdialogues.org/dialogue/15218/ |
| Description | US Department of Agriculture and ICRAF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The GCRF-AFRICAP Country Coordinator for Tanzania and a Research Director from Chatham House met with a representative of the US Department of Agriculture and the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in November 2018 and with ICRAF alone in February 2019. The discussions included a briefing on the programme aims and objectives and potential areas for collaboration including synergies with previous household survey work carried out by ICRAF. Later, ICRAF colleagues with members of the GCRF-AFRICAP team successfully secured funding from the GCRF-AFRICAP training, capacity-building and pump-priming fund to establish a partnership between the GCRF-AFRICAP and the World Agroforestry Centre's CCAFS-funded Planning for Change (P4C) group to achieve innovative, data-driven research utilising the largest meta-analysis of agriculture to date and improve dissemination of AFRICAP research results through existing African climate smart agriculture networks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | Understanding biodiversity and food production trade-offs and synergies - a key challenge for designing sustainable food systems: Dr Hemant Trepathi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research seminar containing the details and findings of AFRICAP agroecology research in Tanzania and South Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Webinar on climate smart agriculture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Stephen Whitfield (AFRICAP Theme A and Zambia lead) presented a webinar on climate smart agriculture as part of the European Union's Erasmus+ Programme on Interuniversity Learning in Higher Education on Advanced Land Management on 1 October. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop - analysing climate data (Zambia Met Agency) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Short online workshop with Zambia Met Agency - covered R scripts for analysing climate data, sessions for questions and answers. Delivered jointly by University Leeds and UK Met Office. Workshop well received - requests for further workshops from participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | World Food Day & COP26 social media campaigns |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On World Food Day 2021, we created a series of tweets on AFRICAP food-related research. We also shared a range of tweets about COP26 activities involving AFRICAP team members. This was particularly important given the limited access for colleagues to attend COP26 events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/gcrfafricap/status/1455905329355624457 |
| Description | World Food Prize/Borlaug Dialogue 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Borlaug Dialogue is an international symposium held alongside the award of the World Food Prize every year in Iowa, USA. In 2017 Claire Quinn presented an overview of GCRF-AFRICAP at a side event 'Translating Research Into Farmer Benefits' Sponsored by UK Science & Innovation Network and 2Blades Foundation. The audience was predominantly made up of researchers and practitioners from African countries and so was an opportunity for knowledge exchange on sustainable agriculture in Africa. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.worldfoodprize.org/index.cfm/93391/89462/reception_and_lightning_talks_translating_resea... |
| Description | World Food Safety Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On the first ever World Food Safety Day, 7 June 2019, lead partner FANRPAN ran a social media campaign to highlight AFRICAP work on the research into aflatoxins that is taking part as part of the AFRICAP programme. The campaign included 23 tweets from 7 contributors over 5 days and reached 17, 843 accounts and 40,754 impressions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://africap.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/World-Food-Safety-Day-Piece.pdf |
| Description | Zambia meeting with stakeholders |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A day-long meeting was held with the private seed companies in Lusaka on 25 September 2018 to discuss potential collaboration with GCRF-AFRICAP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | iFEED integration workshop series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In June 2021, we held integration workshops involving the iFEED expert team (modelling and expert topic leads) as well as key African stakeholders including the iFEED champions. These workshops reviewed the specific results for each of the four focal countries and incorporated feedback from the participants which was reflected in subsequent iterations of the key iFEED outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | iFEED presentation at iCROPM2020 conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk about the AFRICAP modelling framework and its differences to integrated assessment models. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |