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Adapting access to agro-pastoral resources in a context of mobility and climate change for pastoral farming in Chad (ACCEPT)

Last update: 27 February 2023

One of the nine DeSIRA projects involved in DISSEM-INN, the ACCEPT project focuses on pastoral farming.

The DeSIRA initiative
Launched at the One Planet Summit in Paris in 2017, the “Development Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA)” initiative is supported by European Commission’s Directorate for International Partnerships (DG INTPA). By funding more than sixty projects worldwide, this program aims to promote innovation in agriculture and transformation of partner countries’ agri-food systems to make them more resilient to the effects of climate change. Through the original concept of “action-research” for a “development smart innovation”, it seeks to promote a science in partnership that meet development challenges.

Project description

The aim of the ACCEPT project is to contribute to increasing the resilience of pastoralists and agropastoralists in the face of climate change, by adapting access to agropastoral resources in a context of mobility and climate change and co-designing innovations for pastoralists and agropastoralists in Chad. Specifically, the first goal of the project is to update and share knowledge on adaptations to climate change in pastoral and agropastoral systems. To achieve the expected impacts, the project will develop action research through a partnership approach that ensures synergies between the respective skills of the consortium members, by mobilising their know-how in the field of research and development. The expected results are the following:

  • knowledge on practices concerning adaptation to climate change in pastoral and agropastoral systems will be updated and shared;
  • innovations for better access to agropastoral resources and adaptation will be co-designed, tested, evaluated and disseminated;
  • new decision support tools for better prevention and management of conflict risks will be co-designed with the stakeholders, then developed and tested.

Experimentation areas

  • Mandoul/Moyen-Chari
  • Guera/Batha
  • Chari-Baguirmi
  • Ennedi/Ouadi Fira

Length

2020 - 2023

Actors involved

  • Coordinator: IRED
  • Platform in partnership for research and training (dP): dP-PPZS 
  • Partners: PPT, CIRAD (UMR SELMET)
  • Funding: DeSIRA initiative (DG INTPA/UE)

Last update: 27 February 2023