OUR ISSUES
Climate & Agriculture
OUR ISSUES
Climate & Agriculture
Overview
Agricultural modernization offers a crucial path to industrialization and economic transformation. However, agricultural transformation is threatened by the increasingly devastating impacts of climate change, with many countries already experiencing droughts, floods, and variable rainfall. To help farmers raise productivity, climate-smart agriculture can help build resilience. By applying technological innovations across the agricultural value chain, countries can turn climate risks into opportunities and boost their export competitiveness and economic diversification.
Our advocacy work aims to amplify the collective African voice for climate action, in pursuit of common goals of increased climate funding, strengthened carbon markets, and climate reparations. Our work on agriculture builds on the research and findings from the 2017 African Transformation Report – Agriculture Powering Africa’s Economic Transformation – which emphasized the need for agriculture to be a key driver of transformation, and the 2021 African Transformation Report Integrating to Transform, which identified climate-smart agriculture as a key area for collective action to manage climate risks.
Key Contacts
John Asafu-Adjaye
Programs
Smallholder Voices Portal
The Smallholder Voices portal is a policy marketplace where smallholder farmers, academics, and policymakers are virtually connected to engage in policy-informing discussions about issues impacting smallholder farmers.
The portal features best-practice case studies curated by ACET and provides a forum to foster discussion and debate that can inform policymaking in this space…
Featured Reports & Studies
This study examines the structure, opportunities, and constraints of the cocoa industry in Liberia and finds that it needs to develop its traditional cocoa commodity sector into a high-value-adding industry.
Economic transformation is at the center of Africa’s development agenda, but progress is slow. Too many countries are working in isolation. The solution lies in coming together.
Many African countries are considering mainstreaming artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) as a catalyst for inclusive growth. ASM has been touted as having the potential to improve rural livelihoods, with greater distributional benefits to mining communities than those derived from large-scale mining.
Africa’s development can be powered by a revolution in agriculture. A radical program of reforms can trigger economic transformation far beyond the farming industry.
Featured Insights & Ideas
Upcoming Events
Past Events
Inception Meeting: Regional Collaboration on Overcoming Binding Constraints on the Growth of Liberia's Cocoa Value Chain
Inception Meeting: Regional Collaboration on Overcoming Binding Constraints on the Growth of Liberia's Cocoa Value Chain
ACET and partners Nathan Associates, CDG, IREDD, and CEPAR, in collaboration with the Liberian Ministry of Agriculture, will convene a virtual inception meeting to engage key stakeholders on a one-year study on Regional Collaboration on Overcoming Binding Constraints on...
Climate Change: Securing Africa’s Future
Climate Change: Securing Africa’s Future
Climate Change: Securing Africa’s Future, is jointly hosted by ACET and AUDA-NEPAD as a follow up to the launch of ACET’s African Transformation Report and as a platform to discuss the outcomes of COP26 for Africa. The event will draw on perspectives on resilience,...
Validation workshop: Promoting Sustainable Export Processing Zones in Ghana
Validation workshop: Promoting Sustainable Export Processing Zones in Ghana
The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) is hosting a validation workshop and dialogue on promoting Sustainable Export Processing Zones development in Ghana with support from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD).
Validation workshop: Smallholder Farmer Voices in Policy discourse; Market linkages Kenya Study
Validation workshop: Smallholder Farmer Voices in Policy discourse; Market linkages Kenya Study
The African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) will convene a second workshop to validate findings from its study on Market linkages in Kenya on October 27, 2020 at 11: 00 AM GMT.
Validation workshop: Smallholder Farmer Voices in Policy discourse; Market linkages Ghana Study
Validation workshop: Smallholder Farmer Voices in Policy discourse; Market linkages Ghana Study
The African Center for economic transformation will convene a validation workshop a study on Market linkages in Ghana on October 13, 2020 at 2pm. The study is part of a larger project, which seeks to promote informed agricultural policy dialogue focused on inclusivity a...
Launch of Smallholder Voices Portal
Launch of Smallholder Voices Portal
Supported by the Open Society Foundation (OSF) and as part of a broader ACET program to support African governments and stakeholders informing transformational agriculture policy, ACET is working on a project titled “Small-holder Voices in Policy Dialogue”.
Commentary
A United Front: John Asafu-Adjaye on Africa at COP27
John Asafu-Adjaye, ACET Senior Fellow and climate & agriculture specialist, talks about the common African concerns, demands, and expectations at the upcoming climate conference in Egypt.
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