Farms of the Future :

High Level Forum of Climate-Smart Agriculture Stakeholders in West Africa, Bamako (Mali), 15-18 June , 2015

Mathieu OuédraogoRobert Zougmoré

CCAFS West Africa Program, ICRISAT Bamako, Mali

An innovative approach to improve the adaptive capacity of communities

1. The Farm of the Future (FoFT) concept

2. The FoFT implementation process

3. Experiences from West Africa

Outline

The 2030 climate of a maize-growing area near Durban will correspond to the current climate of a major maize-growing area in Argentina. Growers in Durban can learn from these analogous climates how to adapt as their climate

shifts.

http://gismap.ciat.cgiar.org/analogues/

Climate Analogues : finding future climates for potential adaptation

Farms of the Future concept …. to connect farmers to their possible climate futures via farm visits which would enable them to build a mental picture of what their climate and farming systems might look like in the future….

70% of expected future climates already exist somewhere else,

Facilitates exchange of knowledge, technology, and practices between analogue sites.

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Post exchange visitFeedback at home through video

sharing in communityDeveloping / revising the village action plan to

implement learning opportunitiesCapturing the process throughout for the scaling up

perspective

Farmers-to-Farmers exchange visitPre-exchange visit activities Exchange visit process Video recording by farmers of the visit to

document learning insights

Identification of analogue sites Identification of analogue sites Identification of learning opportunities

Preplanning  Identification of the reference site Training / sensitizing agricultural innovation system

workers (extension services)Modelling village change & defining the

vision of the future of the village

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ersFarms of the Future implementation process

Preplanning Identification of the reference site

Training / sensitizing agricultural innovation system workers (extension services)

Past situation

Modelling village change & defining the vision of the future of the village

Using participatory modelling tool for exploring past histories, current situation and potential scenarios : vision of the future.

Potential scenarios (Vision)

Current situation

Analogue sites identification

Climate modelling using the analogue tool

Identification of learning opportunities (technologies, practices, organisational system)

The climate analogue tool identifies the range of places whose current climates correspond to the future of a chosen locality

FOTF exchange visit

Exchange visit process (visit of innovations, debriefing, etc.)

Pre-exchange visit activities (selection of participants, training, logistics, etc.)

Video recording by farmers of the visit to document learning insights

Post exchange activities

Developing / revising the village action plan to implement learning opportunities

Feedback at home through video sharing in community

I’m very glad that I’m one of the participant. In fact, we’re joking in Ghana. See how Burkinabe are fighting the negative impact of climate

change. Growing trees using the technique by Mr Aziz with

OM production using crop residue and household waste is what I’ll start first. Really,

the tour is useful to me. Many thanks to Burkinabe

farmers!!!

I ask us too of Yamba village

we should conserve our

environment by planting trees. “I was very happy with this trip and I have learnt a

lot…

Capturing the process throughout for the scaling up perspective

Experiences from West Africa

CCAFS and partnership with NARS in Burkina Faso Ghana Mali Niger Senegal

Learning opportunities• Crop intensification & diversification; • Crop rotation; • Varietal choice for climate change adaptation ;• Agro-forestry ;• Jatropha production and commercialization;• Improved seed producing and distribution• Agribusiness• Food processing (cassava)• Farmers organization• Land issues.• Etc.

Farms of the Future : A Journey to plausible futures of Doggoh (Ghana)

Learning opportunities L’expérience du panier thermos L’expérience du diner commun de Keur Médoune La caisse de solidarité La banque céréalière L’expérience du biogaz Le périmètre maraîcher de l’UGPM La RNA du Combretum glutinosum et du Faidherbia

albida L’expérience de la mise en défens de Katre SY

Farms of the Future : A Journey to plausible futures of Tattaguine (Senegal)

The "Farms of the Future" approach built on farmer- to-farmer exchanges to analogue sites : A novel way to improve adaptive capacity of communities and support knowledge transfer.

www.ccafs-analogues.org/