Current Agriculture Practices: Baseline Survey Report: Central Highlands Ecoregion Foodscape (CHEF)

Desta, G and Desalegn, H and Michael, K and Nyawade, S and Assefa, B and Boaz, W (2025) Current Agriculture Practices: Baseline Survey Report: Central Highlands Ecoregion Foodscape (CHEF). Technical Report. CGIAR, Kenya.

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Research Program : East & Southern Africa

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The CGIAR Sustainable Science Program forms a part of CGIAR’s new Research Portfolio, addressing key challenges in agri-food systems by fostering efficient production of nutritious foods and safeguarding the environment to create fair employment opportunities, as we simultaneously tackle climate change, soil degradation, pests, diseases, and desertification. Its research is being implemented by CGIAR researchers from 13 CGIAR Research Centers Alliance for Bioversity International and CIAT, ICRISAT, IWMI, CIP, in close partnership with TNC and other partners. We would like to thank all funders who supported this research through their contributions to the CGIAR Trust Fund: https://www.cgiar.org/funders/

Abstract

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Central Highlands Ecoregion Foodscapes (CHEF) Use Case targets eleven counties in the central highland region of Kenya that transition from water towers, smallholder transition zone, semiarid production zone, to rangelands. The mission of the Use Case is to improve and sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the croplands and rangelands to meet the needs of the present and future communities. The interaction of land use systems and agrifood systems in the region is the driver of production decline and depletion of ecosystem services and biodiversity. The CHEF Use Case embeds a foodscapes-scale approach along the transitions to design, validate, and action that are sensitized to local contexts. The approach fosters bridging traditional knowledge and scalable nature-based interventions to drive and achieve an inclusive and sustainable food systems transformation and to accelerate system-wide change. The Use Case aims to catalyze the implementation of regenerative practices and innovations across the transition zones, representing the diversity of geographic and food production archetypes.

Item Type: Monograph (Technical Report)
Divisions: Research Program : East & Southern Africa
CRP: UNSPECIFIED
Series Name: CGIAR Sustainable Farming Science Program Report | Current Agriculture Practices: Baseline Survey Report
Uncontrolled Keywords: Baseline, Central Highland Ecoregion, current practices
Subjects: Others > Crop Modelling
Others > Farming Systems
Others > Southern Africa
Others > Sub-Saharan Africa
Depositing User: Mr Nagaraju T
Date Deposited: 09 Dec 2025 05:03
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2025 05:06
URI: http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/13406
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