The project develops and demonstrates a climate-smart farming system, which will be created by development of new agricultural technologies and a redesigned network of the existing African agri-food value chain to increase resilience, sustainability, and circularity. The deployment of the integrated chia-mushroom -pig biogas value chain contributes to the diversification and resilience of African food systems against the impacts of climate change.
The cascaded approach helps to create more added values from an area of land by multiplying and subsequent uses of the biomass flow in line with the circular bio economy concept “grow more with less”. This will promote knowledge exchange and human capital capacity building, with specific emphasis on the development and enhancement of chia and oyster mushrooms value chain development and focus on addressing the fundamental social and economic challenges affecting resource poor farmers in Africa.
