Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development

Friday, April 24, 2026

Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership Showcase: Exploring technologies and lessons learnt

The Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership UK-Brazil-Africa (running from July 2024 to March 2026) brought together innovative people and organisations to promote climate-smart agriculture in Africa. The Climate-Smart Agriculture Partnership: UK-Brazil-Africa is funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and delivered by Innovate UK.

This pilot programme built collaborations and enable knowledge sharing between the UK, Brazil and Africa (Ghana and Nigeria) to develop technologies and practices that promote climate-smart agriculture in Ghana and Nigeria.

The Partnership has funded:

  • 17 Innovation Award projects, bringing together trilateral partners to explore innovative technologies and practices
  • 13 Travel Grants building relationships between project partners
  • 12 Scoping Projects, exploring key topics for future collaboration

* Based on the assessment of this previous (triangular) call, another call will be launched in spring 2026.

17 Innovation Award projects


  1. Climate proofing food production through aquaponics
  2. Large scale biochar production in Ghana
  3. Building collaboration to address heat stress in tropical livestock
  4. Building collaborative research partnerships in fish breeding, health and welfare management in Nigeria
  5. Dynamic realtime monitoring reporting and verification system for enabling climate-smart agricultural practices across Africa (CarbonXtras)
  6. Banalytic, early warning system to combat black sigatoka in banana plantations
  7. CottonCycle: Transforming Brazilian cotton by-products into climate-smart aquafeeds for tilapia farming in Nigeria
  8. Harnessing data integration for precision health in climate-smart cattle systems
  9. Developing microbial inoculants: Information sharing between Brazil and Nigeria
  10. UK-Brazil-Ghana Partnership for cassava disease prevention
  11. EcoSmart monitoring: Optimising biodegradable polymer dispensers for climate-smart insect pest management and sustainable agriculture in West Africa
  12. HunT SOIL: Harvest Sun Twice by Solar pOwered Irrigated Land
  13. Improving biocontrol efficacy with natural products for western flower thrips control
  14. Improving cassava yields and soil health with microbial stimulants
  15. Microbiome monitoring to enhance Ghanaian tilapia farming
  16. Co-creating a climate-resilient african grasslands: The multispecies swards approach
  17. MyUbuntu - Leadway - Brazil: Travel grant application
  18. Development of innovative metal oxide nanoparticles to enhance waterlogging tolerance in crops
  19. Optimising biochar for soil fertility improvement and climate-smart agriculture among smallholder farmers in Nigeria
  20. Climate-Smart maize initiative: Boosting productivity and sustainability in Ghana with high-impact R-Leaf® technology
  21. SeedSure: Enhancing seed storage reliability and germination assurance through smart technologies


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