Living Labs
Introduction
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 several countries, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tunisia are the main Living Labs of the project and serve as real-world innovation hubs where scientific research meets local knowledge through participatory co-design.
Smaller living labs in Chad, Djibouti, and Senegal are executed with the help of partners from the offices of the Green Great Wall (GGW) in these countries. Also, synergies have been established with a living lab in Niger, founded within another project.
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.
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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.
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