Land Soil Crop Information Hubs to support rural transformation and Climate Smart Agriculture in Ethiopia Kenya and Rwanda

This project or initiative aims to develop sustainable land-soil-crop-information hubs in national agricultural research organizations to enhance the effectiveness of national Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) and contribute to rural transformation and Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) in East Africa? During the LSC-IS project we will 1) pilot and evaluate different strategical and operational approaches for LSC-IS hub design 2) gather lessons learnt in Ethiopia Kenya and Rwanda and 3) ensure that National Agricultural Research Centers can actively operate the LSC-hubs. This also requires that 4) LCS-hub users (individuals / organizations / enterprises) are familiar with data and services provided by the hubs through e.g. training and testing together. The 5) scaling and institutionalisation that we aim for should show that LSC-hub data are finally included in business plans (e.g. of farmers or agricultural input providers) but also in operational plans of national / regional / local authorities (for example for climate change research strategies or for designing the regional agricultural infrastructure network (storage/processing etc.) or rural development plans).