Blog Scaling gender-smart innovations for better nutrition across West Africa
During the Market for Agricultural Innovations and Technologies (MITA 2023) conference organized by West and Central Africa for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF), the AICCRA team showcased the project's role in driving nutrition and gender-sensitive, agricultural innovations across West Africa, with a focus on scaling validated solutions.
Agriculture in West Africa is vulnerable from the interaction of several challenges: climate change, land degradation, insufficient access to technologies, and the difficulties in reaching markets.
There is therefore, an urgent need to tackle such challenges but also to scale the achieved solutions for the benefit of the West African communities.
The Market for Agricultural Innovations and Technologies (MITA 2023) conference was organised under the theme “Facilitating access to gender- and nutrition-sensitive agricultural technologies and innovations’’ to tackle such issues.
MITA was launched by the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development (CORAF), Africa's largest sub-regional research organization, which works with 23 national agricultural research systems in West and Central African countries to facilitates access to and the scaling-up of agricultural technologies and innovations across West and Central Africa.
MITA builds on CORAF’s work to disseminate technologies and innovations in agricultural value chains, with a view of attracting key players involved in the supply, transfer, and use of agricultural technologies.
“Innovation platforms are a powerful means of achieving mass adoption of technologies and innovations,” said Dr Lamien Niéyidouba, Programme Manager for Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security, who also served as a program officer for the West Africa Agriculture Productivity Program (WAAPP).
Such testimony during the MITA event that took place in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso reflects the importance of the MITA platform initiated by CORAF for its partners in West and Central Africa.
