AU

https://au.int/

The vision of the African Union is that of: “An integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in global arena.” The AU Agenda 2063 is a strategic framework for the socio-economic transformation of the continent over the next 50 years. Its builds on, and seeks to accelerate the implementation of past and existing continental initiatives for growth and sustainable development. The vision includes; - Modern agriculture for scaled-up production, improved productivity and value addition through commodity transformation and services, contribute to farmer and national prosperity and food and nutrition security; and - The continent embeds principally adaptation processes to maintain healthy ecosystems, preserve the African natural environment – as the largest remaining reserve of pristine waters, old growth forests and land in the world.

AAH

https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/

For almost 40 years, across nearly 50 countries, AAH have led the global fight against hunger. The organization profess to save the lives of children and their families. AAH enable people to provide for themselves, see their children grow up strong, and for whole communities to prosper. AAH constantly search for more effective solutions, while sharing their knowledge and expertise with the world. We push for long-term change. The goal is not to give up until the world is free from hunger.

AfDB

http://www.afdb.org/en/

The overarching objective of the African Development Bank AfDB Group is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs), thus contributing to poverty reduction. The Bank Group achieves this objective by: - Mobilizing and allocating resources for investment in rmcs; and - Providing policy advice and technical assistance to support development efforts. The AfDB ‘Feed Africa’ strategy, launched in 2015, aims to invest US$24 billion into African agriculture over a ten-year period.

AFR100

http://afr100.org/

AFR100 (the African Forest Landscape Restoration is a country-led effort to bring 100 million hectares of land in Africa into restoration by 2030. AFR100 contributes to the Bonn Challenge, the African Resilient Landscapes Initiative (ARLI), the African Union Agenda 2063, the Sustainable Development Goals and other targets

AGORA

http://aims.fao.org/agora_r4l

Coordinated by the FAO on behalf of its many public and private partners, the goal is to support the effective use of agricultural research, education and training by academics, students, practitioners and government personnel with access to high-quality, relevant and timely agricultural information on the internet.

AGRA

https://agra.org/

In 2006, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation partnered to launch the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, or AGRA, based on a shared vision that investing in agriculture is the surest path to reducing poverty and hunger in Africa. AGRA works across the continent to help millions of smallholder farmers boost their farm productivity and incomes. Today, AGRA is catalysing and sustaining an inclusive agricultural transformation in Africa by increasing incomes and improving food security for 30 million farming households in 11 focus countries including Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi.

B&MGF

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/

The Foundation believes that solutions to Africa’s greatest challenges can come from within Africa. The role is to support African partners whose bold ideas and creative approaches have the potential to save lives, improve health, and help farming families all across the continent. They devote half of the foundation’s resources to projects in Africa and to helping African countries learn from one another (Ethiopia, Nigeria). They also focus our efforts on partnering with local government and NGOs in several other African countries to advance healthcare, improve agricultural production, strengthen financial services for the poor, and improve maternal and child health. These countries include Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania.

BI

https://www.bioversityinternational.org/

This Biodiversity International Initiative studies how agricultural and tree biodiversity can be better used within food production systems. Working in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda

BLI

https://www.birdlife.org/africa

Birdlife has nine Global Programs, varying from those which are well-established, to more recently developed ones, each responding to specific conservation issues. In addition to the Global Programs there are individual regional programs. These supports the Global and Regional Conservation Programs to help the Partnership focus and collaborate on common priorities. They provide a framework for the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluating of conservation work in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi

C4

http://c4es.co.za/

In 2011, world leaders met in Bonn and set the ambitious goal of restoring 150 million hectares of degraded forest land by 2020. Their goal was named the Bonn Challenge. The Aichi Biodiversity Target 15 within the Convention on Biological Diversity has a similar goal, namely the restoration of at least 15% of degraded ecosystems globally. Two challenges facing these goals are how to fund this large-scale restoration and how to ensure that it is implemented effectively. The C4 team specializes in overcoming these challenges and developing funding mechanisms as well as restoration protocols for specific ecosystems. Over the past decade, C4 has worked on 148 projects across 77 countries across Africa, Asia, Central America, and the Caribbean. Clients include the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), private firms such as Carbon Plus Capital, and national governments. C4 has done work in Ghana, Eswatini, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda

CBD

https://www.cbd.int/

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force on 29 December 1993. It has 3 main objectives: 1. The conservation of biological diversity 2. The sustainable use of the components of biological diversity 3. The fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources The ecosystem approach is the primary framework for action under the Convention. The ecosystem approach is a strategy for the integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way.

CGIAR

https://www.cgiar.org/

CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food secure future dedicated to reducing poverty, enhancing food and nutrition security, and improving natural resources. Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) is flagship program in tis context. The overall goal of CCAFS is to catalyse positive change towards climate smart agriculture (CSA), food systems and landscapes. CCAFS takes its mandate from the CGIAR vision: “a world free of poverty, hunger and environmental degradation”. Impacts are sought in three dimensions (CGIAR System Level Outcomes): 1. Reducing poverty 2. Improving food and nutrition security for health 3. Improving natural resource systems and ecosystem services

CI

https://www.conservation.org/

For m Since more than 30 years, Conservation International CI has been protecting nature for the benefit of all. CI is building upon years of scientific knowledge, practical experience and technical and financing expertise to form partnerships with governments, businesses and communities. The aim is to develop innovative strategies to better protect ecosystems, and influence policy and investment decisions to implement these strategies on the ground. Also share best practices with decision-makers to increase our impact on a global scale. CI is investing to protect healthy ecosystems and the many benefits they provide that are essential to human well-being — from continual access to food, water and other natural resources to political stability and economic success.

CIAT

https://ciat.cgiar.org/

CIAT as a part of CGIAR system develops crops, agricultural practices, interventions, and policies to maximize health and nutrition benefits with focus on :- - Breeding better crops - Crop conservation and use - Value chains for nutrition CIAT also helps communities, regions, and countries strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to the impacts of climate change and extreme events. - Climate-smart agriculture - Land use and restoration - Ecosystem Action

CIF

https://www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/

The $8 billion Climate Investment Funds (CIF) accelerates climate action by empowering transformations in clean technology, energy access, climate resilience, and sustainable forests in developing and middle-income countries. The CIF’s large-scale, low-cost, long-term financing lowers the risk and cost of climate financing. It tests new business models, builds track records in unproven markets, and boosts investor confidence. The CIF is empowering climate-smart development planning and action in 72 developing and middle-income countries worldwide confidence to unlock additional sources of finance.

CIRAD

https://www.cirad.fr/

Its work centres on several main topics: food security, climate change, natural resource management, reduction of inequalities and poverty alleviation. - In East Africa, CIRAD and its partners are working to support public policy, design tools and methods for managing agrosystems and the environment sustainably, and boost agricultural product quality and animal health, in relation with human health. - In the dry zone of West Africa, CIRAD's commitments as regards national and regional agricultural research and development organizations, higher education, and farmers' organizations and the private sector, are primarily geared towards guaranteeing food security for local people, through the intensification of agricultural production systems and sustainable, diversified agricultural development that respects environmental resources, which are often highly degraded in arid zones. - West Africa - Forest and Humid Savanna - West African countries are particularly badly affected by the impact of climate change and population growth. CIRAD and its partners are thus devoting a large part of their research operations to ensuring the food and energy security of local populations, while respecting the environment. - In southern Africa, CIRAD is working with the main institutions on research into governance systems and regional and local policy as regards emerging animal and plant diseases. In Madagascar, production systems (rice growing, livestock) are being developed in highland areas. Throughout southern Africa and Madagascar, interactions between the natural environment and the agricultural environment pose numerous questions that are being addressed in a multi-disciplinary fashion by teams from CIRAD and its partners. They relate to biodiversity management, the compatibility of conservation and production, food safety, and land tenure and migration issues.

ECA

https://www.uneca.org/

ECA's mandate is to promote the economic and social development of its member States, foster intra-regional integration, and promote international cooperation for Africa's development. One important aspect of ECA’s work on natural resources is the conduct of policy-oriented research aiming to support the policy, legal and regulatory frameworks for the proper management of natural resources in Africa. ECA works to promote measures to address environmental concerns in the exploitation of Africa’s natural resources.

FAO

http://www.fao.org/

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. The goal is to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active, healthy lives. With over 194-member states, FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide. Followings are key priorities of the organisation: - - Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition - Make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable - Reduce rural poverty - Enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems - Increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises

FEWS

http://fews.net/

FEWS NET, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, is a leading provider of early warning and analysis on acute food insecurity. Created in 1985 by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) after devastating famines in East and West Africa, FEWS NET provides objective, evidence-based analysis to help government decision-makers and relief agencies plan for and respond to humanitarian crises. Analysts and specialists in 22 field offices work with US government science agencies, national government ministries, international agencies, and NGOs to produce forward-looking reports on more than 36 of the world's most food-insecure countries. The "NET" in our name represents our vast network of partners, ranging from collaborators in data collection and analysis to consumers of our reporting. Works in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda

FE

http://www.futureearth.org

Future Earth set up in 2015, builds on more than three decades of global environmental change research through the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), DIVERSITAS and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). Future Earth begins life as a new paradigm emerges in international politics, with the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change. Future Earth has played a significant role at the interface between science and international policy throughout these processes. Now, Future Earth will coordinate and catalyze the world-class research necessary to support the transition to sustainability. Some of the key challenges, among others, are: - Deliver water, energy, and food for all, and manage the synergies and trade-offs among them, by understanding how these interactions are shaped by environmental, economic, social and political changes. - Decarbonize socio-economic systems to stabilize the climate by promoting the technological, economic, social, political and behavioral changes enabling transformations, while building knowledge about the impacts of climate change and adaptation responses for people and ecosystems. - Safeguard the terrestrial, freshwater and marine natural assets underpinning human well-being by understanding relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and services, and developing effective valuation and governance approaches

GCF

https://www.greenclimate.fund/

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a new global fund created to support the efforts of developing countries to respond to the challenge of climate change. GCF helps developing countries limit or reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate change. It seeks to promote a paradigm shift to low-emission and climate-resilient development, taking into account the needs of nations that are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. The objective of a recent approved project “Increasing Agricultural and Ecosystem Resilience through Ecosystem based Adaptation Agroforestry” is to increase the agricultural and ecosystem resilience of 1,125,000 vulnerable small-scale farm households, covering an area of approximately 1,000,000 hectares, and to enhance carbon sinks across 8 counties through Ecosystem-based Adaptation. Specifically, the project will make use of locally-appropriate agroforestry systems (“EverGreen Agriculture”), a highly cost-effective intervention. The project will target: - 60,000 households in Burundi (Muyinga, Cankuzo, and Muramvya Districts) - 325,000 households in Malawi (All districts4) - 70,000 households in Eswatini (Swaziland) (Hhohho, Manzini, Lubombo regions) - 140,000 households in Tanzania (Mtwara, Lindi, Masasi, Nachingwea Districts) - 275,000 households in Uganda (Karamoja, Kyenjojo, Kyegegwa, Mubende, Kibale, Hoima, Masindi Districts)

GDI

https://www.die-gdi.de/

Agriculture can play a key role in many countries for accelerating overall economic growth and job creation – particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. But agricultural development would need to respect environmental challenges. Furthermore, for the poorest people social protection schemes are an essential part of food security, especially in conflict regions. For other household’s social protection can be a social safety net that enables them to invest and preserve productive capital during periods of crises, thereby increasing resilience. In a large research and consulting project, funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) analyzes how development cooperation can become more effective and contribute to increased food security in rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) , specifically focusing on following questions:- - How to achieve food security until 2030? - How can agricultural production be increased sustainably? - How can the impact of climate change or other stressors be mitigated? - What are the future perspectives for smallholders and large-scale agro-investments, which interdependencies exist? - Do we need a structural transformation in rural areas? - Which mix of social, economic and technical policies is needed to reach different household and farm types in rural areas in order to support their different needs and potentials in an optimal way? - How can the design and implementation of social protection schemes be improved to achieve both relief and longer-term objectives?

GEF

https://www.thegef.org/

The Global Environment Facility was established on the eve of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems. Since then, the GEF has provided over $17.9 billion in grants and mobilized an additional $93.2 billion in co-financing for more than 4500 projects in 170 countries. Today, the GEF is an international partnership of 183 countries, international institutions, civil society organizations and the private sector that addresses global environmental issues. The GEF’s Food Systems, Land Use, and Restoration Impact Program is supporting efforts to design systems that protect our planet’s biophysical processes and resources, absorb greenhouse gas emissions, provide nutritious and affordable food for the growing number of people worldwide, and strengthen the resilience and prosperity of rural populations. Achieving these outcomes could generate 80 million jobs and create an additional US$2.3 trillion in productive growth by 2030. The Food Security Program?fosters sustainability and resilience by creating or strengthening institutional frameworks, scaling up integrated approaches, and monitoring and assessment of global environmental benefits. This contributes to maintaining globally significant biodiversity and the ecosystem goods and services, bringing 1.1 million hectares (ha) of landscapes under improved production practices, and an additional 2.1 million ha under sustainable land management. It also supports a transformational shift towards a low emission and resilient development path, mitigating 59 million tonnes of carbon.

GF

https://grameenfoundation.org/

Grameen Foundation is a global non-profit that creates breakthrough solutions spanning financial, agricultural and health services. They use digital technology and strengthen local partner networks to design and deliver solutions that open opportunity for women and families living in poverty. The integration of Grameen Foundation and Freedom from Hunger in October 2016 expanded the geographic footprint in Latin America and Africa, and their combined work now directly supports poverty elimination in 16 countries. Partners of Grameen Foundation and Freedom From Hunger continue to implement programs in an additional 13 countries.

GGGI

http://gggi.org

Through its Sustainable Landscapes Strategy, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) supports partner countries pursue economic growth while protecting, restoring, and using productive landscapes in ways that are inclusive and sustainable. GGGI identifies financial and policy solutions and shape investment deals which are holistic, cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary Taking a landscape approach, GGGI targets key barriers and bring a diverse range of stakeholders on board. The landscape approach moves away from project and sector specific interventions to a more holistic and integrated way of pursuing economic growth. GGGI aims to shape well-designed business models and projects that delivers three returns on investment: financial, natural capital and social returns. In collaboration with partner governments, private sector, and a range of other partners, GGGI develops risk reduction and return enhancing instruments to attract more private capital to sustainably produced natural resource based sectors. Partner governments play a key role in creating an enabling framework through the provision of suitable regulatory support.

GRET

https://www.gret.org/

Founded in 1976, GRET is an international development NGO, governed by French law, which acts from work on the ground all the way up influencing policy, with the aim of providing durable and innovative answers to the challenges of poverty and inequalities. Its professionals provide lasting, innovative solutions for fair development in the field and work to positively influence policy. GRET’s 739 professionals work on 191 projects per year in 25 countries. Its Natural Resources management program covers three lines of work: - Testing, developing and promoting natural resource (agro-forestry, forest, agricultural water) and renewable energy systems that are sustainable, economically lasting, suited to the needs and constraints of local populations, and that help preserve biodiversity and fight climate change; - Setting up good governance of natural resources and energy through management and co-management, delegation and regulation modalities and mechanisms within institutional frameworks under construction; and - Sharing information through training and capacity building, pooling good practices, running exchange and reflection networks. GRET works in Burkina Faso, Niger, Burundi, Ethiopia, and Tanzania.

ICRAF

http://www.worldagroforestry.org/

The World Agroforestry Centre ICRAF as a part of the CGIAR system, is a centre of scientific excellence that harnesses the benefits of trees for people and the environment. Leveraging the world’s largest repository of agroforestry science and information, we develop knowledge practices, from farmers’ fields to the global sphere, to ensure food security and environmental sustainability. ICRAF is the only institution that does globally significant agroforestry research in and for all of the developing tropics. Knowledge produced by ICRAF enables governments, development agencies and farmers to utilize the power of trees to make farming and livelihoods more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable at scales. - West & Central Africa - Niger, Nigeria - Activities in the region focus on the roles that Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration plays in delivering agricultural systems that can improve productivity and livelihoods in the parklands of the Sahel. We also explore how improved planting materials are affecting the contributions of key tree crops to the GDP of humid countries while delivering benefits for climate change and income). - Eastern and Southern Africa - Burundii, Estawtini ( Swaziland), Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda. Areas of focus include: - Better engagement of youth and women in agroforestry-related businesses - Improvement of cross–sector analyses and collaboration - Improvement of communication, especially in local media and local languages Cutting across all of these is support to policies that seek to mainstream agroforestry principles and practices into national development plans, strategies and projects and the facilitation of functional country and regional (e.g. EAC, SADC, IGAD), agroforestry networks.

IFAD

https://www.ifad.org/

IFAD is an international financial institution and specialized United Nations agency based in Rome, the UN’s food and agriculture hub. Since 1978, IFAD has provided US$18.5 billion in grants and low-interest loans to projects that have reached about 464 million people. The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) invest in rural people, empowering them to increase their food security, improve the nutrition of their families and increase their incomes. IFAD help them build resilience, expand their businesses and take charge of their own development.

IFPRI (AFR)

https://www.ifpri.org/

IFPRI, as part of CGIAR system, has had a long history of engagement in Africa, and today it invests about 50 percent of its programmatic budget in work on the continent. To better meet research needs and achieve greater impact on the ground, IFPRI launched country project offices, as well as the Eastern and Southern Africa Office (ESAO) and the West and Central Africa Office (WCAO). - Eastern and Southern Africa Office (ESAO), headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, helps to strengthen IFPRI’s position as a major contributor to food policy research, capacity strengthening, and policy dialogue within the region. The office supports the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) and actively works with the African Union Commission; regional bodies such as the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and the Southern African Development Community; and individual countries to provide evidence-based solutions to shape agricultural policies, investments, and programs. - West and Central Africa Office (WCAO), headquartered in Dakar, Senegal, helps to strengthen IFPRI’s position as a major contributor to food policy research, capacity strengthening and policy dialogue within West and Central Africa. The Office supports countries with the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) and actively works with the African Union Commission, regional bodies such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), and individual countries to provide evidence-based agricultural policy solutions.

IIED

https://www.iied.org/

IIED is a policy and action research organisation. IIED promote sustainable development to improve livelihoods and protect the environments on which these livelihoods are built. IIED specialise in linking local priorities to global challenges. IIED is based in London and works in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific, with some of the world’s most vulnerable people.