About PARTAKE Africa
PARTAKE Africa – the Participatory Agroecological Research for Transforming Knowledge and Equity in African Communities is an innovative partnership initiative. It builds on Western and their partners’ decades long collaboration on participatory agroecological research in Africa.
The partnership aims to test the extent to which agroecological practices and participatory knowledge mobilization enhances African communities’ resilience against climate change in Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia. The team intends to improve food security, health and wellbeing, reduce post-harvest food loss, enhance environmental sustainability and achieve gender, intergenerational, and socio-economic equities.
PARTAKE Africa will use Agroecological GENder Transformative (AGENT), climate responsive and research-intensive living labs (AGENT labs) with participatory, intersectional feminist and decolonial methodologies across the Global South and North. Their approaches will allow cross-pollination of knowledge exchange and practices among farmer researchers, scientific researchers, practitioners, community experts, and policymakers.
Bringing together 19 partners from 8 countries, Dr Luginaah at Western forged this partnership with Drs Bezner Kerr, Dusenge, Kassim, Mnthambala, Mujawamariya as co-directors from Cornell University, USA, Australian National University, Australia, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Tanzania, Mzuzu University, Malawi and the University of Rwanda, Rwanda.
PARTAKE Africa partnership’s Stage 1 initiatives were supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
