Two new videos and a flyer explain the advantages and best practices of agroforestry in the Sahel region for farmers and extensionists. They have been developed by the Horizon 2020 project SustainSahel, which is coordinated by FiBL Switzerland.

Why, with whom and how Helvetas is pursuing a landscape approach in the Simiyu and Singida regions of central Tanzania.

The Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) Bangladesh has launched a pioneering initiative that utilizes carbon credits to support smallholder farmers through the implementation of horticultural agroforestry systems. Carbon credits are a market-based system that incentivizes the reduction, removal, or avoidance of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, measured in terms of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-eq). This initiative holds particular significance for Bangladesh, a country highly vulnerable to climate change and committed to sustainable development.

The Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) has a successful history of incubating products and services that target smallholder needs and of scaling them beyond the locations in which it has a direct presence, by spinning off as independent enterprises. This step is currently being explored for GATE (Global Agricultural Technology Evaluation), an internally developed platform supporting the evaluation of the effectiveness and marketappropriateness of climate-smart innovations in local smallholder settings. As part of the assessment of the potential benefits GATE could bring beyond the SFSA domain in which it has been deployed to date, a voice of stakeholder study was initiated in May 2023 to collate the pain points relating to the establishment of innovations in the smallholder context, as seen from the various perspectives of different ecosystem actors (see diagram below). This white paper presents the results of this voice of stakeholder study and the insights arising.

Portrait of Martina Graf, former student and staff member of international agriculture at BFH-HAFL, who emigrated to Canada and was recently appointed Global Manager of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists