Mapping of Science, Technology and Innovation actors championing agroecological practices for sub-Saharan Africa

This report presents a shortlist of research institutes, universities and/or networks/alliances of researchers/research organisations that are currently involved in research and innovation that support agroecological transitions. The shortlist has been elaborated following an extensive actor mapping exercise of organisations involved in research and innovation on agroecology in sub-Saharan Africa. The results of this exercise can be found in Annex 1, i.e., a longlist of research institutes/centres, universities, networks of researchers or research organisations. 

The shortlist presented in this report provides recommendations for the organisations to be considered under priority 4 (STI component) of the Regional MIP. However, it needs to be underlined that the longlist as well as the shortlist should strictly be considered as the results of an initial mapping exercise, subject to limitations further explained in Chapter 2. Following this introductory section, chapter 2 provides a description about the approach and mapping methodology, including an overview of the steps and criteria used to narrow down the long list, resulting in a short list of potential STI actors. Chapter 3 consist of a description of short-listed actors per region and chapter 4 gives a number of concluding remarks. Annex 1 provides the longlist of networks, universities and organisations in line with the STI component of the MIP.