Agroforestry Living Labs
GALILEO works with 8 LLs for local level farm interventions and 5 IPs for national and regional level interventions at innovation policy ecosystem, based on a combination framework of different AFSPs and socio-economic contexts in: Senegal (SN), Kenya (KN), Ghana (GH) and Cameroon (CN).
Our LLs and IPs are a mix of existing autonomous social networks structures that have already proven their viability, plus of new LLs and IPs, set up through GALILEO. In each LL, we engage three categories of actors, with their pilot plots:
a) Pilot plots of Innovator actors: pre-existing to GALILEO with success stories in AFSPs management, willing to spread knowledge to local communities,
b) Pilot plots of Target actors: willing to implement innovations after training and support,
c) Control actors: not ready to implement innovations, but agreeing to provide control plots/farms for our baseline.
GALILEO works with 8 LLs for local level farm interventions and 5 IPs for national and regional level interventions at innovation policy ecosystem, based on a combination framework of different AFSPs and socio-economic contexts in: Senegal (SN), Kenya (KN), Ghana (GH) and Cameroon (CN).
Our LLs and IPs are a mix of existing autonomous social networks structures that have already proven their viability, plus of new LLs and IPs, set up through GALILEO. In each LL, we engage three categories of actors, with their pilot plots:
a) Pilot plots of Innovator actors: pre-existing to GALILEO with success stories in AFSPs management, willing to spread knowledge to local communities,
b) Pilot plots of Target actors: willing to implement innovations after training and support,
c) Control actors: not ready to implement innovations, but agreeing to provide control plots/farms for our baseline.
The 8 LLs are being set in semi-arid zones of Senegal and Kenya and normally humid but drought-prone zones of Ghana and Cameroon thus, comparing and covering a large range of SSA conditions to implement innovative AFSPs management practices targeted on local species (i.e. cocoa, staple crops etc.) and livestock (i.e. sheep, cattle, bees etc.) to increase agricultural, household and climate resilience, by supporting yield and income diversification, especially in dry conditions.
The 8 LLs are being set in semi-arid zones of Senegal and Kenya and normally humid but drought-prone zones of Ghana and Cameroon thus, comparing and covering a large range of SSA conditions to implement innovative AFSPs management practices targeted on local species (i.e. cocoa, staple crops etc.) and livestock (i.e. sheep, cattle, bees etc.) to increase agricultural, household and climate resilience, by supporting yield and income diversification, especially in dry conditions.
