The Living Labs are at the heart of the TRANS-SAHARA project’s mission to foster climate resilience and sustainable agroforestry in the Greater Northern African Region (GNAR). Located in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tunisia these Living Labs serve as real-world innovation hubs where scientific research meets local knowledge through participatory co-design.

By focusing on water security as a catalyst for change, the Living Labs enable the development, testing, and validation of context-specific agro-silvo-pastoral solutions. They play a crucial role in demonstrating how integrated Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus approaches can regenerate degraded ecosystems, enhance biodiversity, and support socio-economic development.

Each Living Lab is tailored to its unique environmental and socio-economic context, yet all contribute to a shared goal: building scalable, data-driven, and inclusive agroforestry systems that can be replicated across Africa.