Improving Yields Sustainably in Western Kenya and Eastern Uganda: Co-Design of Conservation Agriculture.

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces formidable food security and environmental challenges. Population pressure, agricultural intensification, market distortions, an unevenly supportive policy climate, and inherently unproductive soils create a degradation spiral that underlies declining food security and environmental quality. While farming systems capable of improving productivity have been developed, several broad constraints impede adoption for many of the 60 million smallholder farmers across SSA. Report on a process to develop field-scale farming system components through a participatory process that incorporates concepts of co-innovation and co-design among researchers, advisors, and men and women stakeholders in agriculture in the Mt. Elgon area of western Kenya and eastern Uganda.