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Long-term Europe-Africa Research and Innovation Partnership for Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture

Titre : AMINATA : Improving Access to Agricultural Innovations for the Agroecological Transition/AMélioration de l’accès aux INnovations Agricoles pour la Transition Agroécologique

Pays/Région : Mali

Date : Start date 2022-02-01 // End date 2026-01-31

Identifiant : 483-AMINATA
Type de projet : Development and innovation oriented (research) project

Objectif
The project sets out to help build the capacity of Malian producers to adapt their production systems. The aim is to consolidate the emergence of sustainable and responsive agricultural innovation support mechanisms to facilitate producers’ access to the knowledge and skills necessary to develop innovations adapted to their needs and means as well as to the evolution of local production contexts.

Présentation
The physical and economic environment for agricultural production has changed dramatically in Mali over the past few decades. To achieve their goals, rural families must constantly adapt their production systems. Until now, producers have developed strategies in terms of adaptation and resilience based on the constitution of food stocks, savings in the form of livestock, complementarity between activities, seasonal migration and interdependence within social groups. These resilience factors have allowed strategies in terms of adaptation to be applied progressively to production systems. Today, environmental changes are picking up pace, forcing producers to identify ways to accelerate these transitions towards more sustainable and agroecological systems. To do so, they must develop their knowledge and skills. The last three decades have seen a continuous decrease in the number of support mechanisms for producers provided by the State or by the sectors. At the same time, we have seen the emergence of new initiatives led by producers’ organisations or non-governmental organisations. The AMINATA project is based on the assumption that consolidating these new mechanisms will improve their responsiveness and provide effective and sustainable support for a large number of producers in the transition to more efficient, adapted and inclusive systems of activity. In order to consolidate these new support models, it is necessary to gain a better understanding of the functioning of local innovation mechanisms and to test ways of consolidating the innovation dynamics already at work

Coordinateur : Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD)
Partenaires : Institute of Rural Economy (IER) Association of Professional Farmer Organizations (AOPP) Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (AVSF)

Financement principal : Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO)
Budget : 2 000 000 EUR

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