Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR), within the strategy of its platform Research for Sustainability (Forschung für Nachhaltigkeit, FONA), the INTERFACES Project works with four other regional projects to strengthen the integration, coherence and reach in the area of sustainable land management.
This current blog, prepared by the Minodu team shares the launch of the GitHub-website, which brings together the technical documentation for the Local Community Network (LCN) developed as part of the Minodu project, as well as materials from the co-design process. The documentation is intended to help make the approaches developed in the project transparently accessible and to enable other initiatives to build, adapt, and further develop similar local and community-based infrastructures.
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This current blog, prepared by the COINS team, shares insights into their final dissemination workshop. Three days of knowledge sharing on Integrated Soil Fertility Management and Systems of Rice Intensification to promote their adoption for sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture. The dissemination and closing workshop marked more than the conclusion of the COINS project: it demonstrated how collaborative research can generate practical, science-based evidence that incentivize farmers, inform policy, and strengthen sustainable land management across West Africa.
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Smallholder farming systems in West Africa face the challenge of increasing agricultural production and sustaining rural livelihoods while addressing land degradation and growing climate-related risks. The diversity of these systems means that sustainable intensification must contend with differences in agroecological conditions, farm resources, production systems, and farmers’ capacity to invest and manage risk. Even where promising practices exist, their wider uptake can be constrained by financial limitations, production risks, and other socioeconomic and institutional conditions.
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Training video on design e.g. the choice of font, colour, the correct use of images and graphics, and presentation dramaturgy.
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Training video on rhetorical aspects, body language, gestures and facial expressions, as well as verbal and non-verbal audience participation.
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Pastoral livelihoods in northern Kenya depend on governance systems capable of managing highly variable grazing and water resources across seasons. Although policy reforms have sought to strengthen community participation and natural resource governance, they have often done so by creating new institutions alongside existing customary governance systems rather than building on them (Table 1). Empirical evidence from Marsabit County shows that strengthening rangeland governance requires recognising and building on these existing customary institutions rather than creating parallel structures.
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Co-developing innovations for sustainable land management in West African smallholder farming systems
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Decision support for strengthening land resilience in the face of global challenges
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Increasing efficiency in rangeland-based livestock value chains through machine learning approaches and digital technologies
Learn moreWorkshop | Review: Pre-Conference Workshop at Tropentag 2026
From Research to Results: Findings from and for Sustainable Land Management in sub-Saharan Africa Further information here: https://www.tropentag.de/conference/workshops.php#W21 To register please e-mail: Aiveen.Donnelly@idos-research.de
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