AfriNutriForest

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This project aims to develop, test, and promote sustainable and innovative agroforestry horticultural systems—arbo-market gardeners—that produce healthy fruits and vegetables in an agroecological manner for diversified diets, climate-resilient processed food systems, and improved livelihoods.

The project will be implemented in certain coastal regions of Senegal and Kenya that face several challenges in the field of horticulture:

• Problems related to the intensity of manual labor and water scarcity are addressed through technological innovations (i.e., small-scale mechanization and irrigation devices powered by solar energy).
• Social innovations will address knowledge gaps by linking scientific and practical and traditional knowledge systems through digital products and building capacity through intergenerational co-learning and science-practice dialogues.

Ultimately, this project will contribute to improving food and nutritional security, generating income for smallholder farming households, and including young farmers by creating innovative employment opportunities, which the project calls “solarpreneur- and horti-ecopreneurship,” through the adoption of technological and social innovations in arboriculture and market gardening.-African, organizing meetings and training for young researchers, and supporting cooperation between the various actors involved in coastal areas in West Africa (Collectif 5 Deltas, Collectif des Deltas du Golfe du Bénin). These initiatives will thus improve the management of marine protected areas and strengthen the resilience of coastal communities through shared knowledge.