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Background of SCAP
The Smallholder Conservation Agriculture Promotion is a regional project financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and partly by Agence Francaise de Development (AFD). The project is being implemented by the African Conservation Tillage Network (ACT) in collaboration with Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomiquepour le development (CIRAD) & World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF).
Target Areas & Population
Project activities are currently in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger and are hosted in the 4 IFAD loan projects: PICOFA, PDRD (Burkina Faso), PPILDA (Niger) and PADER/BGN (Guinea). Targeted project areas comprise of arid, semi-arid and humid tropics.
The Approach
The overall approach adopted in the Programme is highly participatory and allows for the allocation of the necessary space for a dynamic, iterative and flexible process to unfold that will lead to the development of technical and organizational innovations in partnership with key stakeholders, foremost among them farmers and their organizations.
Project Output
Locally adapted CA-based cropping and farming systems developed and shared mechanisms and systems to stimulate and facilitate farmer innovation developed and functioning within the target communities
Building institutional mechanisms to sustain knowledge sharing and to foster innovation and up-scaling in the Region
An active knowledge management basis for distilling, learning and disseminating local and exogenous knowledge established and functional
Consolidate the Continental, Regional, National, Village, Local groups and institutions generated by the project.
