AgMIP Demand-Scoping Study
in Sub-Saharan Africa

Project partners will work with governmental stakeholders to co-develop a framework for applying information from climate, crop, and economic models to inform various policy instruments, such as National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), National Agricultural Investment Plans (NAIPs), Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs). The project will also help build capacity in governments to advance evidence-based investments in mitigation and adaptation. While the project will retain a focus on Ghana and Senegal, the outputs will discuss how the findings apply to countries across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.

The project partners include members of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) team – including researchers from the University of Ghana, the Initiative Prospective Agricole et Rural (IPAR) in Senegal, Alliance Bioversity International-CIAT, the International Livestock Research Institute, Oregon State University, and Columbia University. The AgMIP team is partnering with Synergos and the International Food Policy Research Institute.

The project team will assess the demand by decision- and policy-makers for science-based evidence that can support adaptation and mitigation planning and action in agriculture in Ghana and Senegal through analysis of planning and policy documents, interviews with stakeholders, and a large consultative workshop, held in Ghana. The team will also pilot novel approaches in regional-to-national scale modeling, with findings synthesized into policy briefs to demonstrate how they may support climate-smart decision-making.

See the official AgMIP Demand-Scoping Project Press Release.