1. High Level Forum of Climate-Smart Agriculture Stakeholders in West Africa, Bamako (Mali), June , 2015
Farms of the Future :
An innovative approach to improve the adaptive capacity of communities
Mathieu Ouédraogo
Robert Zougmoré
CCAFS West Africa Program, ICRISAT
Bamako, Mali

2. Outline The Farm of the Future (FoFT) concept
The FoFT implementation process
Experiences from West Africa

3. Farms of the Future concept
…. to connect farmers to their possible climate futures via farm visits which would enable them to build a mental picture of what their climate and farming systems might look like in the future….
Climate Analogues : finding future climates for potential adaptation
70% of expected future climates already exist somewhere else,
Facilitates exchange of knowledge, technology, and practices between analogue sites.
The 2030 climate of a maize-growing area near Durban will correspond to the current climate of a major maize-growing area in Argentina. Growers in Durban can learn from these analogous climates how to adapt as their climate shifts.
The Farms of the Future (FOTF) approach is an interactive climate adaptation, knowledge sharing and learning experience that transforms climate forecasts into field-based realities by physically taking participants on a journey to areas that already experience climatic conditions that represent plausible future climate scenarios.
The hypothesis behind this is that the knowledge exchange process can enhance a farmer’s/village’s capacity to adapt to changing climatic conditions by exposing them to innovative farming communities that have already successfully adapted their agricultural practices to various distinct climatic conditions the reference village might experience.

4. Involvement of stakeholders
Farms of the Future implementation process
Involvement of stakeholders
Post exchange visit
Feedback at home through video sharing in community
Developing / revising the village action plan to implement learning opportunities
Capturing the process throughout for the scaling up perspective
Farmers-to-Farmers exchange visit
Pre-exchange visit activities
Exchange visit process
Video recording by farmers of the visit to document learning insights
Identification of analogue sites
Identification of learning opportunities
Preplanning  
Identification of the reference site
Training / sensitizing agricultural innovation system workers (extension services)
Modelling village change & defining the vision of the future of the village
Main elements : i) Village modelling, ii) climate modelling , iii) farmer exchanges, iv) Post-exchange activities

5. Preplanning Identification of the reference site
Training / sensitizing agricultural innovation system workers (extension services)
Past situation
Modelling village change & defining the vision of the future of the village
Using participatory modelling tool for exploring past histories, current situation and potential scenarios : vision of the future.
Potential scenarios
(Vision)
Current situation
Women and men construct a model of how their village
(i) was in the past,
(ii) move on to show the present situation and finish by
(iii) building and discussing a range of future scenarios,
Using participatory modelling tool for exploring past histories, current situation and potential scenarios, (Resource and infrastructure map, land use,….. )
and build the vision of the future of the community

6. Analogue sites identification
Climate modelling using the analogue tool
The climate analogue tool identifies the range of places whose current climates correspond to the future of a chosen locality
Identification of learning opportunities
(technologies, practices, organisational system)

7. FOTF exchange visit
Pre-exchange visit activities (selection of participants, training, logistics, etc.)
Exchange visit process (visit of innovations, debriefing, etc.)
Video recording by farmers of the visit to document learning insights

8. Post exchange activities
Feedback at home through video sharing in community
I’m very glad that I’m one of the participant. In fact, we’re joking in Ghana. See how Burkinabe are fighting the negative impact of climate change. Growing trees using the technique by Mr Aziz with OM production using crop residue and household waste is what I’ll start first. Really, the tour is useful to me. Many thanks to Burkinabe farmers!!!
I ask us too of Yamba village we should conserve our environment by planting trees. “I was very happy with this trip and I have learnt a lot…
Developing / revising the village action plan to implement learning opportunities
Country team writes up reports and journal article, and sharing of edited videos as appropriate
Capturing the process throughout for the scaling up perspective

9. Experiences from West Africa
CCAFS and partnership with NARS in
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Mali
Niger
Senegal

10. Farms of the Future : A Journey to plausible futures of Doggoh (Ghana)
Learning opportunities
Crop intensification & diversification;
Crop rotation;
Varietal choice for climate change adaptation ;
Agro-forestry ;
Jatropha production and commercialization;
Improved seed producing and distribution
Agribusiness
Food processing (cassava)
Farmers organization
Land issues.
Etc.
Reference site: Doggoh : 20 farmers (men and women) and AIS
Analogue site (3): 8 farmers’ (7 men & 1 woman) farms and 2 agro-processing enterprises by Women Organizations in 7 different locations visited

11. Farms of the Future : A Journey to plausible futures of Tattaguine (Senegal)
Learning opportunities
L’expérience du panier thermos
L’expérience du diner commun de Keur Médoune
La caisse de solidarité
La banque céréalière
L’expérience du biogaz
Le périmètre maraîcher de l’UGPM
La RNA du Combretum glutinosum et du Faidherbia albida
L’expérience de la mise en défens de Katre SY

12. Thanks for your attention
The "Farms of the Future" approach built on farmer- to-farmer exchanges to analogue sites : A novel way to improve adaptive capacity of communities and support knowledge transfer.
Thanks for your attention