GCRF-Agricultural and Food System Resilience: Increasing Capacity and Advising Policy (AFRICAP) is a £9.2 million programme to make agriculture and food production in sub-Saharan Africa more productive, sustainable and resilient to climate change.
Working with local organisations and governments in Malawi, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia, we are creating an evidence base to underpin new country-specific policies in agriculture and food production.
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Forecasting crop pest migrations to improve control efficiency
Migratory crop pests such as desert locusts, fall armyworms and red-billed queleas are threatening food security across Africa. Both commercial and subsistence farmers can suffer huge losses, but so far, years of work has not yet managed to curtail the impacts of migratory pests. Unfortunately their combination of…
Lessons learned: South-North partnerships in an agri-food system research programme
The GCRF AFRICAP programme is coming to an end in March 2022. Helen Coskeran who worked as programme support officer from 2018 to 2020 before taking over as programme manager reflects on what she has learnt during this process. AFRICAP is the largest GCRF grant led by the…
Latest News
- Lessons learned: South-North partnerships in an agri-food system research programme
- New video: iFEED Champions & Researchers on why it’s valuable and timely
- Food Systems and COP26
- Modelling GHG emissions from agriculture for AFRICAP
- Infographic: Informing a climate-smart, food- and nutrition-secure future for Africa
- AFRICAP Supports #ClimateShot’s Agricultural Innovation Agenda
- Key Messages of AFRICAP at #COP26
- New Publication: Innovation systems and affordances in climate-smart agriculture
Recent Past Events
14/10/2021 - 15/10/2021
Participate in the FSNet-Africa Research Symposium
29/07/2021
Creating climate-resilient agri-food systems in sub-Saharan Africa