6
Living Labs
Sustainable Growth
6
AU Countries
AfroGrow’s six Living Labs are the core of the project. They are dynamic, real-life environments across Africa where innovation meets local knowledge. These hubs bring together communities, researchers, policymakers, and industry stakeholders to co-create practical, sustainable agroforestry solutions tailored to diverse regional challenges.
From desertification and biodiversity loss to deforestation and climatic crisis, AfroGrow’s Living Labs serve as testing grounds for climate-smart strategies that enhance resilience, equity, and sustainability. They are spaces for participatory research, knowledge exchange, and policy shaping, and bridges for collaboration between AU and EU partners.
Core Objectives
- Promote sustainable agroforestry systems
- Identify suitable plant and animal species
- Define structural and spatial requirements for agroforestry
- Foster coexistence with wildlife
- Apply regenerative land management practices tailored to local challenges
- Enhance access to financial services and markets
- Reduce inequalities and gender gaps
- Support climate resilience and adaptive practices
- Safeguard food, feed, fuel, fiber, and shelter (F3S), resources and human health
- Contribute to policy development and regulation
SENEGAL
Forest, fruit trees,
and livestock production
Côte d'Ivoire
Cocoa-based forest, food
and livestock production
Botswana
Indigenous trees, food
and livestock production
Zambia
Fruit trees integrated in
smallholder cropping systems,
and livestock production
Kenya
Maize agroforestry, food,
horticultural, and livestock
production
Ethiopia
Ensete ventrcosum (false banana),
Coffee arabica, food and
livestock production, mosaic of plants
