Projects
THE SAHELIAN ZONE
The Sahelian zone, which includes countries with a useful rainy season lasting less than 90 days.
Country
- 🇬🇲 Gambia
- 🇸🇳 Senegal
- 🇲🇷 Mauritania
- 🇲🇱 Mali
- 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
- 🇳🇪 Niger
- 🇹🇩 Chad
THE COASTAL ZONE
The coastal zone covers countries with a useful rainy season lasting between 90 and 270 days.
Country
- 🇨🇻 Cape Verde
- 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau
- 🇬🇳 Guinea
- 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone
- 🇱🇷 Liberia
- 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast
- 🇬🇠Ghana
- 🇹🇬 Togo
- 🇧🇯 Benin
- 🇳🇬 Nigeria
THE WETLAND
The mainly forested central zone has a rainy season lasting between 270 days.
Country
- 🇨🇫 Central African Republic
- 🇨🇲 Cameroon
- 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea
- 🇬🇦 Gabon
- 🇨🇬 Republic of Congo
- 🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of Congo
Accelerating the impact of CGIAR climate research for Africa
CORAF will be equipped with the relevant knowledge and tools generated by AICCRA to reach regional and national stakeholders.
Agroecology Network to Promote Sustainable Food Systems in West and Central Africa
RMRN RADiUS is a project aimed at creating appropriate frameworks for interaction between all the players involved in experience sharing, capacity building, knowledge dissemination and validated agroecological innovations.
DEEMAL NIAMAANTERI "Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture
AGRINUT is a USAID-funded project implemented by the CORAF consortium, ChildFund and the NGO FODDE. It aims to improve the nutrition of women and children in the southern zone, more specifically in Kolda, Sédhiou and Ziguinchor.
TAAT policy facilitation agreement
The TAAT Policy Enabler Compact aims to create an enabling environment for farmers to adopt agricultural technologies by removing policy and regulatory barriers.
Feed The Future Senegal Dooleel Ndaw Ñi
As part of USAID's Feed the Future initiatives, Feed the Future Sénégal Dooleel Ndaw Ñi aims to increase the participation of young people in their communities and promote their development through the Positive Youth Development (PYD) approach.
Development and scale-up of sustainable feeds for resilient aquatic food systems in sub-Saharan Africa
To develop low-cost, highly nutritious fish feeds based on innovative ingredients and give 5,000 small-scale fish farmers in three African countries access to quality feed for their fish.
Project to develop an inclusive and resilient agricultural value chain in Gambia
Promote the development of inclusive, resilient and competitive agricultural value chains, with a focus on small-scale farmers and agri-businesses in the project's target areas.
West African Food System Resilience Program (FSRP)
The Food System Resilience Program (FSRP) is an initiative of regional organizations (ECOWAS, CILSS/AGRHYMET and CORAF) and member states aimed at strengthening regional integration in three interconnected priority areas.
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Main achievements
Regional training for park managers on M&E and communication (18 participants, including 4 women)
From September 25 to 29, 2023, regional training for park managers on M&E and communication (18 participants, including 4 women)
2nd CORAF Symposium: Advancing agricultural processing research in West and Central Africa
The West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF) is organizing the 2nd symposium on the state of agricultural product processing in West and Central Africa, to be held from November 21 to 23, 2023 at the February 2 Hotel in Lomé, Togo. CORAF is organizing this event as part of the TARSPro project (Agricultural Technologies and Innovations to Increase the Resilience of Production Systems and Family Farms in West and Central Africa), which aims to strengthen the resilience of agricultural production systems in West and Central Africa, in synergy with the CAADP-XP4 program. The symposium is organized around the theme of "Promoting research into the processing of agricultural products: achievements and opportunities for the private sector to create jobs and wealth in West and Central Africa". This year's symposium aims to promote research into post-harvest processing to increase the shelf life, quality and diversification of products in West and Central Africa, in partnership with the private sector. This symposium provides a framework for interaction, dialogue and collaboration, enabling participants to pool their collective knowledge, exploit research results and find innovative solutions to the region's multiple agricultural challenges", explains Dr Abdou TENKOUANO, Executive Director of CORAF. Participants and researchers from across West and Central Africa will come together to share their expertise. The event will adopt a hybrid format, combining face-to-face and virtual sessions to enable maximum participation and foster inclusive exchanges. At the end of the symposium, research results that can be made available to the private sector will be identified. As a reminder, CORAF organized a symposium on agricultural technologies and innovations in 2022.
Project launch
The PYD project was launched in the presence of the USAID Country Director.
Training young scientists
Coordinate the selection and training of young scientists (10 MSc and 5 PhD) from project countries in fields related to cassava virus disease surveillance and management. The expected outcome is the provision of scholarships and laboratory fees for each student to carry out research in the WAVE project laboratories.
Gender equality action plan developed
Support the consolidation of gender mainstreaming in agriculture based on the strategy developed by CORAF, which includes the empowerment of women, youth and vulnerable groups through gender-sensitive technologies and innovations, access to these technologies and to product markets.
Training in policy analysis and development, advocacy and resource mobilization
Provide training and technical assistance in policy analysis and formulation, advocacy and resource mobilization.
National organization responsible for identifying and compiling agroecological data from censuses and compilations
National organization responsible for identifying and compiling agroecological data from censuses and compilations
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