Toolkit: Designing and implementing conservation agriculture of IFAD investments in sub-Saharan Africa

Conservation agriculture (CA) in sub-Saharan Africa has multiple, but often very specific, niches for investment that need to be understood to support its inclusion and implementation in projects.

CA has considerable potential for increasing agricultural productivity in the region: this toolkit outlines how the potential can be achieved.

This document introduces and defines CA in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. It raises the main issues and poses questions that are addressed in the “Lessons Learned” document, which presents, discusses and analyses experience based on recent literature and country case studies.

The “How To Do Note” – looks at these issues in terms of guiding teams involved in designing, supervising and managing CA programmes.