GreenGaDe's central objectives are to evaluate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and carbon storage dynamics related to the agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) sector at national and regional scales in West Africa, to guide climate change adaptation policies and strategies in the West African sub-region, and to develop strategies to accelerate the implementation of climate-smart agriculture approaches in smallholders’ farmers. To do so, we aim at:
• Quantifying GHG emissions from different agricultural practices at local, national and regional levels;
• Measuring carbon pool dynamics in agricultural lands and near-natural vegetation;
• Modeling GHG emissions from the agricultural sector at the local, national, and regional scale and
predicting the potential carbon sequestration in 2030 and 2050;
• Exploring the knowledge and local innovations favoring GHG emissions and carbon sequestration.

WASCAL; - Institute for Environment and Agricultural Research (INERA) Burkina Faso; Council for Scientific and Industrial Research - Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (CSIR-FORIG) Ghana; Radio-Isotopes Research Institute, Department of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, University Abdou Moumouni (UAM) Niger; - University of Potsdam, Biodiversity Research / Systematic Botany (UP) Germany; University of Kassel, Center for Environmental Systems Research (UK) Germany; Laboratory of Plant Biology and Ecology, University Joseph Ki-Zerbo (UJKZ) Burkina Faso