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As the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) - with its special focus on agriculture and food systems -draws to a close in the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh, CORAF's efforts to strengthen people's resilience in the face of climate change continue.

The scaling-up of Agricultural Technologies and Innovations for Increasing the Resilience of Production Systems and Family Farms in West and Central Africa (TARSPro) project aims to strengthen the resilience of food systems, by calling for better deployment of promising agricultural technologies and innovations to ensure food, nutritional and economic security for the populations of Central and West Africa. Funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the TARSPro project is being implemented by CORAF in Benin, Burkina-Faso, Niger, Chad and Mali.

As part of this dynamic, TARSPro aligns its intervention with concepts that help agriculture in the sub-region to meet current - and future - challenges, notably that of Climate Intelligent Agriculture (CIA).

CORAF and the Alliance Biodiversity International and CIAT (ABC) are building the capacity of TARSPro project teams to effectively integrate CIAT into project implementation. This will involve setting up a climate-smart village and ensuring its operationalization, as well as promoting climate-smart technologies in each TARSPro project country.

"The Alliance Biodiversity International and CIAT (ABC) is providing technical assistance to CORAF in implementing the TARSPro project, which consists of building the capacities of national stakeholders at various levels for more integrated, sustainable and climate-resilient implementation. Thanks to this technical assistance, the beneficiaries - small family farms - will be more resilient and better able to face the challenges of climate change", explained Dr Emmanuel NJUKWE, Director of Research and Innovation at CORAF.

Some twenty participants representing the TARSPro project's country implementation teams are taking part in this training course, which runs from November 14 to 17, 2022 in Kaolack, Senegal.

The training should enable participants, and more specifically the project's country teams, to gain a better understanding of the challenges and impacts of climate change on the life of farms on the one hand, and on the other, to strengthen their knowledge of AIC concepts, approaches and tools.

In addition, a roadmap is expected to be defined for the implementation of activities in the various target countries.