OVERVIEW OF THE RESULTS ​​​In 2024-2025, the Africa Agriculture Adaptation Atlas matured into a multi-regional data platform, linking science, policy, and finance for climate-resilient agriculture. Funded by the Gates Foundation and implemented with SAF, AFRACA, ASARECA, AGNES, ATI, ANAPRI, and RCMRD, it integrates over 40 terabytes of climate and adaptive- capacity data to guide planning, investment, and institutional capacity strengthening across Africa. SDG TARGETS 13.1 - Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries 13.2 - Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning 13.3 - Improve education, awareness- raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning CONTRIBUTING EXTERNAL PARTNERS: ​​Sustainable Agriculture Foundation (SAF) African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (AFRACA) The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) African Group of Negotiators Experts Support (AGNES) Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) HIGHLIGHTS ​Atlas drives climate finance: 13 proposals totaling USD 1.2 billion relied on Atlas data for investment design. ​Capacity building scaled: 237 officers across 38 Kenyan counties trained to use the Atlas for climate-smart agriculture planning. ​Governments adopt Atlas Data: Ethiopia, Kenya, and Mozambique integrated Atlas insights into their agricultural and climate policies. ​Interoperability achieved: Atlas data used in innovations like aCLIMAtar to guide climate-smart planning and investment for cocoa, coffee, and tea. ​Regional partnerships strengthened: Atlas collaborated with 8+ organizations to align governments and institutions on climate risk analysis and adaptation planning.​ GEOGRAPHIC SCOPE: ​​REGIONAL​ COUNTRY: ​​Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa​ PRINCIPAL CGIAR IMPACT AREA(S) Impact Area 4: Climate Adaptation and Mitigation ​​Governments, institutions, and investors use the Africa Agriculture Adaptation Atlas to plan, assess, and finance climate-resilient agriculture​ Climate Action REPORTING 2025 EVIDENCE Climate Action Africa Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ANAPRI) Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) Better Planet Lab International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Global Yield Gap Atlas (GYGA), Wageningen University​ Rohr Lab, University of Notre Dame ELABORATION OF OUTCOME/IMPACT STATEMENT ​​Between 2024 and 2025, the Africa Agriculture Adaptation Atlas matured into a multi-regional decision-support platform linking science, policy, and finance for climate-resilient agriculture. ​Developed with investment from the Gates Foundation, the Atlas integrates more than 40 terabytes of spatial climate, exposure, and adaptive-capacity data into interactive analytics that guide climate-adaptation planning across Africa. ​Atlas scaling was achieved through multiple partnerships and methods, including the Sustainable Agriculture Foundation (SAF), AFRACA, ASARECA, AGNES, ATI (Ethiopia), ANAPRI, and RCMRD. These collaborations strengthened institutional capacity, developed regionally relevant training programs [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], and demonstrated practical use cases linking adaptation data to decision- and policymaking. Collectively, they established a replicable model for co-development and uptake, aligning regional actors around shared methods for climate-risk analysis, investment prioritization, and adaptation tracking. Government adoption accelerated during this period. ​In Kenya, the Turkana County Government integrated an Atlas-derived Climate Risk Profile into its agriculture policy [7], while 38 county teams (237 officers) trained by RCMRD now apply Atlas datasets and visualizations in climate- smart agriculture (CSA) planning [8, 9, 10]. In Ethiopia, ATI institutionalized Atlas workflows within national planning systems aligned with the National Adaptation Plan (NAP), Climate- Resilient Green Economy (CRGE), and Growth and Transformation Plan II (GTPII) [11]. In Mozambique, Atlas hazard and exposure data were embedded in the national Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Portal to quantify production exposed to drought, flood, and heat stress [12]. Policy and institutional networks also applied Atlas evidence to strengthen frameworks and investment cases. Ethiopia’s Scaling up Climate Ambition on Land Use and Agriculture (SCALA) Programme used Atlas hazard and adaptive- capacity layers to develop CSA business cases; Kenya’s State Department of Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) enhanced its capacity to design bankable, adaptation-finance proposals [13]; and ANAPRI produced Atlas-informed CSA policy briefs in Ghana and Mozambique [14]. The Rainforest Alliance collaboration applied Atlas downscaled-climate data to power the aCLIMAtar tool for coffee, tea, and cocoa adaptation planning [15]. Development-finance institutions relied on Atlas datasets to strengthen climate-rationale and investment design. The Global Center on Adaptation [16], African Development Bank (AfDB), Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Bank used Atlas indicators to justify or refine 13 investment proposals exceeding USD 1.2 billion in value [16, 17, 18]. An AGNES– AfDB pilot demonstrated how Atlas data can underpin adaptation-finance metrics through a climate-credit- scoring tool [19, 20, 21, 22]. Together, these efforts show that, during 2024–2025, the Atlas evolved into an operational ecosystem for adaptation intelligence. ​Enabled through diverse partnerships with SAF, AFRACA, ASARECA, AGNES, ATI, ANAPRI, and RCMRD, the Atlas now anchors institutional capacity, policy frameworks, and investment design processes that strengthen climate- resilient agriculture across Africa EVIDENCE 1. ​​Spatial Data to Actionable Policy (link here) 2. ​​Anglophone West Africa Explores the Adaptation Atlas in Accra (link here) 3. ​​Southern Africa Explores the AA (link here) 4. ​​Eastern Africa Explores the Adaptation Atlas in Ethiopia (link here) 5. ​​Francophone West Africa explores the Adaptation Atlas (link here) 6. ​​AI for Climate Adaptation and Food Systems Training in Nairobi (link here) 7. ​​Climate change and variability: Historic and future trends in Turkana County (link here) 8. ​​County User Engagement and Capacity-Building Workshop on the Africa Agriculture Adaptation Atlas (AAAA) – Draft Report (private) 9. RCMRD Empowers Kenyan Counties with Climate Adaptation Tools through Africa Agriculture Adaptation Atlas (AAAA) Workshops (link here) 10. ​​Enhancing Climate-Smart Agriculture through the Africa Agriculture Adaptation Atlas (AAAA): Insights from the County-Level Validation Exercise (link here) 11. ​​Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) - Ethiopian Adaptation Atlas (link here) 12. ​​Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Portal - Mozambique (link here) 13. ​​Experts Trained on Atlas Tool to Strengthen Evidence- Based Climate Action (link here) 14. ​​12th ANAPRI Stakeholders Conference | 4th – 6th November 2025 (link here) https://www.anapri.net/from-spatial-data-to-actionable-policy/ https://www.agnesafrica.org/anglophone-west-africa-explores-the-adaptation-atlas-in-accra https://www.agnesafrica.org/southern-africa-explores-the-adaptation-atlas/ https://www.agnesafrica.org/eastern-africa-explores-the-adaptation-atlas-in-ethiopia https://www.agnesafrica.org/francophone-west-africa-explores-the-adaptation-atlas/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7379074430217523202 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/176851 https://rcmrd.org/en/component/content/article/rcmrd-empowers-kenyan-counties-with-climate-adaptation-tools-through-aaaa-workshops?catid=9&Itemid=101 https://rcmrd.org/en/component/content/article/enhancing-climate-smart-agriculture-through-the-africa-agriculture-adaptation-atlas-aaaa-insights-from-the-county-level-validation-exercise https://observablehq.com/@ati https://crva.jcdevops.com/pt/ https://kilimonews.co.ke/science-and-technology/experts-trained-on-atlas-tool-to-strengthen-evidence-based-climate-action/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.anapri.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Published_newsletter-Issue-5-July-September-2025.pdf.pdf 23. Africa Agriculture Adaptation Atlas ​Mapping Climate Resilience for Informed Decision Making (link here) 24. Africa Agriculture Adaptation Atlas (link here) 25. Coordinated, confident, locally owned: A new era for evidence-driven climate adaptation in Africa (link here) 26. Africa Agriculture Adaptation Atlas: A new era for evidence-driven climate adaptation (link here) 27. Enhancing the use of decision-support tools to strengthen NAP design, implementation, and evaluation (link here) 28. Three steps for climate-ready investment across Africa (link here) 29. Building Climate Resilience with Agricultural Finance and Insurance (link here) 30. Can we measure Global Mutirão? COP30 can mobilize collective action for climate resilience (link here) 31. Atlas Newsletter (link here) 32. How a Climate-Credit Scoring tool is revolutionizing Agricultural Finance in Africa (link here) 33. Financial Access (FACS) and The Alliance of Bioversity International – CIAT are working together to advance financial inclusion for smallholder farmers in Africa (link here) OTHER NOTABLE REFERENCES, PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTS AND COMMUNICATION MATERIALS EVIDENCE 15. ​ACLIMATAR - Climate adaptation planning tool. (link here) 16. Private email exchange with GCA confirming use of Atlas analytics to inform project investment. (private) 17. Coordinated, confident, locally owned: A new era for evidence-driven climate adaptation in Africa (link here) 18. Private email exchange between Alliance and WUR staff confirming use of Atlas analytics in the context of the SNV Soil Values project (private) 19. Unlocking green finance for dairy smallholders: A novel climate-credit risk scoring tool to help financial providers target finance and adaptation pathways for dairy farmers in Kenya (link here) 20. Developing a digital climate-linked credit risk scoring tool for micro-finance institutions and livestock owners in Kenya and Guatemala (link here) 21. Data-driven insights for climate-credit scoring in East Africa (link here) 22. Three steps for climate-ready investment across Africa (link here) CIAT / NAP Expo https://digital-atlas.s3.amazonaws.com/atlas_comms/AAAA_OverviewPoster.pdf https://digital-atlas.s3.amazonaws.com/atlas_comms/AAAA_StrategicUseCases.pdf https://alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/coordinated-confident-locally-owned-new-era-evidence-driven-climate-adaptation-africa https://youtu.be/UigIuPS_q0Y https://alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/enhancing-use-decision-support-tools-strengthen-nap-design-implementation-evaluation https://alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/3-steps-climate-ready-investment-africa https://irff.undp.org/blog/building-climate-resilience-agricultural-finance-and-insurance https://alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/measure-global-mutirao-cop30-mobilize-collective-action-climate-resilience?mtm_campaign=AllianceReferral&mtm_source=CGIARWebsite&mtm_medium=Referral https://digital-atlas.s3.amazonaws.com/atlas_comms/AAAA_Newsletter_2025-08.pdf https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/how-a-climate-credit-scoring-tool-is-revolutionizing-agricultural-finance-in-africa https://www.facsglobal.com/financial-access-facs-and-the-alliance-of-bioversity-international-ciat-are-working-together-to-advance-financial-inclusion-for-smallholder-farmers-in-africa/ https://adaptation.aclimatar.org/about/ https://alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/coordinated-confident-locally-owned-new-era-evidence-driven-climate-adaptation-africa https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135825 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/172585 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168280 https://alliancebioversityciat.org/stories/3-steps-climate-ready-investment-africa © 2025. 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