Agro-silvo-pastoral systems in West Africa - ASAP

Family agro-silvo-pastoral systems are in the majority in West Africa. They are the main lever for development. They are also facing a multiplicity of demographic, economic and climatic changes, and their productivity is not making sufficient progress to satisfy the changes in demand. Intensification is the preferred type of pathway to increase agricultural production, but it exposes farmers and the environment to a range of risks and degradation processes. Action research in partnership serves to design more productive, more sustainable crop-livestock systems based on the principles of ecological intensification.