About the Project

Agriculture is a particularly sensitive sector to climate change as it acts as both an emitter and absorber of greenhouse gases. Indeed, the ongoing climate change has already contributed to desertification, land degradation, declining crop yields and food insecurity in the SSA region.

Moreover, even more serious consequences for the stability of food production are expected in the future, which would be seriously jeopardized if a global warming of 2.5 °C is reached. In a trending scenario of a sharp increase in food demand due to population growth in the region, food security would be threatened by exposing millions of people to difficulties in obtaining the food they need, thus triggering further mass migration and conflict.

Based on these assumptions, the project aims to explore the concept and practices related to the Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), an approach promoted by the FAO, starting in 2010, to create favorable technical, policy and investment conditions for sustainable agricultural development that addresses climate change issues while ensuring food security. Moreover, the notion of agripreneurship, which refers to entrepreneurship in agriculture, will be utilize as a transversal competence and it will be integrated with that of CSA as it enables agriculture to simultaneously adapt to the climate and increase productivity.

In order to address unemployment and the effects of climate change on agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa, the project aims to support the exchange of information and best practices between European and Sub-Saharan African actors working in the agricultural field regarding the best and innovative techniques related to climate-smart agriculture and agripreneurship so as to tighter links between the third countries not associated to the Programme VET system and its labour market.