About the Agricultural Technology Database

The rate of adopting new and improved technologies in the field of agriculture is low in some areas of Africa. As a result, farms are less resilient to the challenges of climate change, leading to lower production and income.

The main objective of the CAUSA project was to strengthen the innovation process by establishing an operational framework to increase knowledge exchange and collaboration between all actors in the agricultural innovation system: farmers, research and knowledge resources, and service providers.

The project ran in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Togo between 2014 and 2016 and the main focus was on rice production. Technologies included evaluation of new rice varieties, farm machinery and integrated approaches such as SMART-valleys (a low-cost and sustainable approach to develop inland valleys in sub-Saharan Africa for rice production).