A short introduction to the big ideas behind the Land Soil Crop Information Services (LSC Hubs) project.

In East Africa, climate change leads to a drastic reduction of the quality and resilience of the land, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and food and nutrition insecurity for the growing urban and rural populations. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can mitigate the impacts of climate change while increasing agricultural productivity and farm income.

Land Soil Crop Hubs (LSC Hubs) bring together available data in information hubs at a national level. This project is a collaboration between Wageningen University Center for Development Innovation, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), ISRIC - World Soil Information, Ethiopia Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) , Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), and Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board (RAB).

This project is co-funded by the European Union, The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and ISRIC - World Soil Information through the Development Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA).