The Strengthening Agricultural Knowledge and the Innovation Ecosystem for Inclusive Rural Transformation and Livelihoods (AIRTEA) project in Eastern Africa was a regional initiative implemented under the OACPS Research and Innovation Programme, with the Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) serving as a key consortium partner. The project was funded by the European Union through the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and coordinated by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA).

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UPSCALE, Upscaling Push-Pull for Sustainable Intensification of Smallholder Farming Systems in East Africa is a Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation project worth €7.66 million, which started in November 2020 and ran for 5 years. The Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) was a key consortium partner, playing a central role in stakeholder engagement, dissemination, and the promotion of push-pull technology adoption among smallholder farmers across the region.

The project addressed a critical challenge: closing the yield gap in African smallholder agriculture in the face of climate change, while recognizing that conventional methods of agricultural intensification are environmentally costly, unsustainable, and poorly adapted to low-income farming. Push-pull is an integrated cropping system that involves driving pests away from the main crop using a repellent intercrop while attracting them out of the crop with trap plants. Push-pull also improves soil health and water retention, provides economic and high-value livestock fodder, and a recently developed climate-smart variant using traditional cereal varieties increases system resilience to climate change.

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The Support to Farmers’ Organizations in Africa Programme (SFOAP) — Main Phase was a landmark multi-donor, continental programme implemented between 2013 and 2018, with the Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF) serving as one of the five regional executing agencies. Supervised and co-financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and primarily funded by the European Union, SFOAP represented the most comprehensive effort to date to strengthen farmers’ organizations (FOs) across the African continent — from grassroots cooperatives to national, regional, and pan-African networks.

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The Digitally Enabled Resilience and Nutrition Policy Innovations (DERPIn) project was a three-year initiative implemented by AKADEMIYA2063, a pan-African non-profit research organization headquartered in Kigali, Rwanda in partnership with the Pan-African Farmers’ Organization (PAFO) of which EAFF is a founding regional member. The project was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), supported through the Fund for the Promotion of Innovation in Agriculture (i4Ag) and implemented by AKADEMIYA2063 on behalf of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.

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The BIO4Africa project was initiated to contribute to food and nutritional security and combat poverty in rural Africa through inclusive and sustainable development. Through the development of bio-based solutions and circular value chains, the objective was to drive the cascading use of local resources, diversify farmer incomes and contribute to an African bioeconomy.

The project focused on transferring simple, small-scale and robust bio-based technologies to smallholder farmers, including green biorefining, pyrolysis, hydrothermal carbonisation, briquetting, pelletising, bio-composites and bioplastic production — all adapted to local needs, contexts and biomass. By empowering farmers to produce a variety of higher-value, bio-based

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The Farmer-led Research and Innovation (FO-RI) programme advances the transition to resilient, productive, and sustainable agroecological agri-food systems through farmer-led action research and innovation. Implemented by the AgriCord Alliance a global network of 13 agri-agencies the programme places farmers’ organisations at the centre of co-developing, testing, and scaling agroecological solutions across diverse agricultural contexts. FO-RI integrates action research, multi-stakeholder collaboration, and policy advocacy to drive systemic change in food systems.

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