Scaling agroforestry for holistic climate resilience-building in rural Tanzania (SCARF)

Numerous projects across the globe have supported the identification and implementation of good agricultural practices to advance climate change adaptation. Yet, few manage to sustain the positive effects after the project period. The SCARF-project will address the root-causes of non-adoption of agricultural good practices. The goal is to promote long-term resilience of smallholder farmers in rural Tanzania. Based on an innovative combination of scientific climate impact and adaptation assess-ments, participatory tools and implementation activities, agroforestry measures will be selected, ana-lysed, co-designed, implemented and scaled up. The systemic nature of agroforestry and its various environmental and socio-economic benefits make it a particularly promising climate change adaptation strategy. The project aims to understand and foster conditions that lead to the upscaling of agrofor-estry in both time and space.

Project data

Countries
Tanzania
IKI funding
791,042.00 €
Duration
12/2022 till 11/2025
Status
open
Implementing organisation
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung e.V. - PIK) - Germany

State of implementation/results

  • In May 2023, farmer workshops were held in all 8 SCARF villages to identify suitable agroforestry technologies. For each workshop, between 10-12 farmers participated, with female participants making up between 30-50%. The workshops included focus group discussions and were aimed at discussing the benefits and drawbacks of different agroforestry technologies as experienced by the farmers.
  • In July 2023 a stakeholder workshop was held in Dodoma with 18 participants, including farmer representatives, extension agents, local ministry representatives, and other key stakeholders, as well as members from the project team. The workshop aimed at introducing the project, presenting first results from the modelling activities, and discussing the major challenges and opportunities in the two project regions related to agricultural production and climate change. The results from the discussion fed into the selection of agroforestry technologies.

Latest Update:
03/2024

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