Call for Innovative Approaches to enhance Climate Adaptation for Agriculture in Africa | $100,000 Funding for Seed Projects

The Grand Challenges in Global Health (GCGH) is pleased to announce the African Agriculture Climate Adaptation Research System.

This Challenge seeks innovative approaches to enhance climate adaptation for agriculture in Africa in ways that link directly with and strengthen the ecosystem of local actors and institutions.

The objective of the challenge will be to support innovations that strengthen agriculture-related risk management processes and adaptation prioritization, planning, and investment, through intra-Africa research collaboration on data, data science, and modeling.

Specifically,

• To support innovations that strengthen agriculture-related risk management processes and adaptation prioritization, planning, and investment, through intra-Africa research collaboration on data, data science, and modeling.
• Innovative systems for collecting data and quantifying the impacts of climate-smart interventions on SSP livelihood, consumption, micronutrient deficiencies, obesity, etc. This may include data collection as well as analytics, e.g., ways to distinguish between benefits under a variety of climate conditions, and the cost and benefits in poor, good, average years.
• Strengthened FAIR data management practices for agricultural and climate data programs, including genetic information, enabling data sharing and collaboration
• Platforms to mobilize additional investments in national and regional centers of excellence for climate-smart R&D, e.g., at the smaller-scale connecting innovators and researchers with donors, to larger scale support for institutional processes.

For more information, pleaFor more information, visit https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/african-agriculture-climate-adaptation-research-system