Sister Projects
Agroforestry for Climate Resilience in Africa
TRANS-SAHARA, GALILEO, and AfroGrow are sister projects funded under the Horizon Europe call HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-01-10. Together, they form a collaborative cluster advancing agroforestry as a climate adaptation and mitigation strategy across Africa.
A Shared Vision
These projects align around a central mission:
- Promoting sustainable, locally adapted agroforestry systems
- Strengthening climate resilience, biodiversity, and livelihoods
- Supporting inclusive innovation via community-built Living Labs
- Fostering AU–EU cooperation for sustainable, long-term impact
By integrating scientific research and traditional knowledge, the cluster delivers tailored, transformative solutions.
Sister Projects Highlights
Lead by TUM, our project uses a WEFE (Water–Energy–Food–Ecosystems) Nexus approach to restore degraded lands and enhance water security.
- Living Labs located in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tunisia
- Collect and model environmental and socio-economic data to understand links between agroforestry, climate resilience, biodiversity, and sustainable agriculture.
- Create a WEFE-Nexus-based design tool tailored to Living Lab conditions to optimize water use and balance productivity with sustainability.
- Train local stakeholders in agroforestry data collection and evaluation, while fostering entrepreneurship and performance monitoring skills.
- Promote agroforestry through non-technical innovations like sustainable business models and value-chain strategies for replication across Africa.
- Test and validate project innovations in Living Labs using performance indicators to showcase practical applications.
Led by CIRAD, this project integrates trees, crops, and livestock in agroforestry systems.
- Living Labs across Senegal, Kenya, Ghana, and Cameroon
- Engage diverse stakeholders at local, national, and regional levels to co-create and implement sustainable agroforestry solutions resilient to climate change and drought.
- Test and demonstrate innovative agroforestry practices, building capacity and assessing their impact on income generation and diversification across sub-Saharan Africa.
- Evaluate agroforestry’s potential for climate adaptation, mitigation, and biodiversity enhancement, providing open access to qualitative and quantitative data.
- Assess agroforestry systems under climate scenarios, using multi-criteria and multi-scale methods to guide selection and refinement.
- trengthen the agroforestry innovation ecosystem through knowledge exchange, policy dialogue, and collaboration with key networks to support dissemination and replication.
Lead by Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence, this project co-creates multifunctional and circular agroforestry landscapes.
- Living Labs located in Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, and Zambia.
- Establish Living Labs across Africa to act as innovation hubs, demonstrating the benefits and viability of agroforestry practices and technologies in real-life settings.
- Support balanced ecosystems, improve community well-being, and protect planetary health.
- Evaluate how agroforestry enhances soil health, biodiversity, socio-economic conditions, and community well-being, while addressing potential challenges.
- Make agroforestry more accessible, demonstrating the economic benefits of carbon farming and strengthening the entire value chain.
- Reduce social inequalities, strengthen social bonds, and improve resilience to climate challenges.
- Deliver data-driven policy recommendations to strengthen AU-EU collaborations, supporting green transitions and advancing climate adaptation strategies.
Innovation Through Collaboration
Living Labs provide real-world environments for co-creation and testing of context-specific agroforestry systems. This fosters direct engagement between local communities, researchers, and policymakers, ensuring solutions are both scalable and sustainable.
Funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme Grant Agreement Nº: 101182176. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or of the European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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