Promoting endogenous climate-smart breeding practices to boost household food security in West Africa

About this project

Economic and demographic growth and urbanization in West Africa, mainly in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire and Togo, are leading to a change in eating habits and a sharp increase in meat consumption, especially beef, thus intensifying semi-itinerant livestock farming and increasing pressure on the environment. Indeed, to meet growing demand in a context of increasing scarcity of agropastoral resources (pasture and water) due to climate change, breeders and farmers are adopting practices that do not respect the environment, exacerbating greenhouse gas emissions. Faced with this problem, it is necessary to support the reappropriation and improvement of endogenous practices, including gender-sensitive practices, contributing to the improvement of livestock feed, sustainable land management and carbon sequestration by grass species, while preserving the livelihoods of livestock farmers and agropastoralists. Integrated crop-livestock-forest systems based on endogenous climate-smart practices guarantee the sustainability of livestock systems and carbon sequestration in the soil and plant biomass, but these practices are poorly developed and adopted by livestock farmers due to their inadequacy with socio-economic and cultural realities. This project aims to co-construct endogenous climate-smart practices with low greenhouse gas emissions that would contribute to the resilience of ruminant farming systems by guaranteeing food security for at least 20,000 agropastoral households, raising awaren…

Published by

International Development Research Centre · Other public sector

Countries

Benin, Togo, Côte d’Ivoire

Sectors

Agricultural research

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Main focusClimate adaptation · Main focusDesertification · Also contributes

Published by International Development Research Centre to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 1 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-301-2-110497-001.

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