Stronger Focus on Climate-Smart Agriculture and Farmer Resilience Across Africa

At Data Axis Consulting Limited (DACL), we welcome the increasing momentum around climate-smart agriculture, farmer resilience, and market access across Africa.

Recent partnership announcements from AGRA continue to emphasize inclusive and climate-smart agriculture, stronger food and feed value chains, and support for smallholder farmers and SMEs through training, technology, and market linkages. These priorities align strongly with the kind of evidence-driven agriculture programming DACL supports through research and data services.

This shift is important because agriculture stakeholders now need more than broad policy goals—they need field-based evidence to understand what works, where gaps exist, and how to improve implementation in different local contexts.

DACL supports agriculture and food systems partners through:

• Baseline studies and needs assessments
• Farmer and value-chain surveys
• Monitoring and outcome assessments
• Market and behavior research
• Data analytics and reporting for programme learning

As climate pressures, market volatility, and financing constraints continue to affect farmers, data-backed decisions are becoming even more critical for designing effective interventions and improving resilience.

DACL remains committed to supporting agriculture programmes with reliable research that helps partners improve outcomes for farmers, communities, and food systems.le into health and behavior-focused research across sectors.