New Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership Scoping Project reports published

Innovate UK Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership: UK-Brazil-Africa is bringing innovative people and organisations together through a range of initiatives.

The first of these were the Scoping Projects, which have built networks between the UK, Brazil, Ghana, and Nigeria. Independent reports have been created by the Scoping Project leads using the input of the stakeholders they engaged with during their project.

The Scoping Project reports include ideas on technologies and partners which could support you to develop an application to the Innovation Awards or Travel Grants which are open now until 11am BST on 7 May 2025.

Each Scoping Project report explores the challenges and opportunities associated within their topic area in Ghana and Nigeria. These are starting points for identifying opportunities for collaboration and knowledge sharing to develop technologies and practices that promote climate-smart agriculture solutions for sustainable food production systems in Ghana and Nigeria.

What can you learn from the Scoping Project reports?

• Understand the challenges, barriers and technology gaps associated with specific topic areas in both Ghana and Nigeria
• Identify opportunities to collaboratively transfer, develop, commercialise, adopt and scale-out technologies and practices to promote climate-smart agriculture in Ghana and Nigeria
• Explore where your research, innovations, technologies and practices in the UK, Brazil, Ghana and Nigeria might fit in to address challenges in Ghana and Nigeria

Who are the Scoping Project reports for?

• Businesses who have a technology and are looking for new markets or opportunity areas to apply this in
• Researchers looking to learn more about areas in which their expertise could be applied
• Those looking at applying to the Innovation Awards and Travel Grants who are keen to learn more about the context their technology or innovation could be applied in

Scoping Project reports

Read these insightful reports from the Climate Smart Agriculture Scoping Project leads:

A trilateral network for agroforestry and integrated regenerative landscape management to support climate resilient development and food security

Report prepared by the University of York and Bangor University

Climate-smart cowpea for Africa

Report led by the University of Sheffield

Development of a UK, Ghana, Nigeria, and Brazil network on cocoa improvement

Report led by the University of Reading

Enhancing Cassava Productivity in Africa: Connecting the dots for sustainable agriculture and higher yields in Ghana and Nigeria with microbial biological solutions

Report led by the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI)

Exploring how a blended approach of ecology, culture and technology can help translate nature-based solutions for pest-control into crop farming for African subsistence farming communities

Report led by University College London (UCL)

Identifying priority areas and aligned innovations for sustainable goat production in Africa

Report led by Harper Adams University and University of Reading

Silvopasture for climate resilient livestock systems

Report led by the Organic Research Centre and Bristol Veterinary School, University of Bristol

Soil health for productivity and climate resilience

Report led by the University of Plymouth

SusNet Cacao (Sustainability Network for Cocoa)

Report led by the NIAB (National Institute of Agricultural Botany) and Durham University

Sustainable Oil Palm Options (SOPO)

Report led by the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology