The project intervention communities of The Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA) in Ghana are vulnerable to climate variability and change, which continues to pose a threat to food crop production. Increasing the resilience of the communities includes building their capacity on climate smart agriculture practices (CSA), climate information services (CIS) and One-health (OH) innovations. A Training of Trainers workshop was organized and Thirty-six Master trainers (mainly extension officers) received training on CSA, CIS, and OH innovations.

Using radio for extension service has the potential to reach many rural women with the needed climate information services (CIS) and climate smart agriculture (CSA) innovations. However, radio extension is not necessarily gender neutral. In this Info Note we present insights from designing and implementing a gender-smart radio extensions programme in Ghana.

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), as part of Columbia Climate School at Columbia University organized an intensive three-week conference on subseasonal and seasonal forecasting using the updated NextGen (PyCPT2.5.5) approach at its Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory campus in Palisades, New York with staff from ICPAC and AGRHYMET, as well as the national meteorological services of six AICCRA countries and Lesotho.

An operational scale, efficacy tests of the optimal dose of the bioinsecticide Bb11 (Bba5653), including observation data on useful non-targets. Specifically, participatory trials with vegetable growers were carried out, at the Tuba Irrigation Site in the Ga West District of the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the biological insecticide Bba5653 under field conditions in Ghana. The demonstration also included the evaluation of BSF frass in cabbage production systems.

The approach was used to disseminate site-specific climate-information services, agro advisories, and climate-smart agriculture technologies for AICCRA Ghana Cluster priority value chains

Sustainable agricultural mechanization holds great potential for addressing food security, poverty reduction and rural development challenges. This report compiles smallholder farmers’ needs, knowledge, and willingness to adopt and pay for sustainable agricultural mechanization (SAM) technologies and services in Ghana. The study was conducted in Offuman, an AICCRA intervention community under the pilot project “Go smart-mechanization! Increasing access to agricultural mechanization services in Ghana”.

The purpose of this case study is to draw lessons from the PTT for design of future research policy platforms or networks. The study provides an overview of the institutional context within which the PTT was established and carried out its work, reviews the organizational structure and functions of the think tank and presents some of the selected research activities that were carried out, plus their impacts. Finally, the case study draws out some lessons for future consideration when establishing science to policy platforms.