MARIGO

The activities of the MARIGO project are:

• the establishment of a multi-actor platform (producers, private partners, public authorities, civil society and consumers) allowing the sharing of information, the identification of innovative solutions based on mutualism and the search for a consensus to their implementation;
• the co-design of agroecological and resilient market gardening production systems by pooling the achievements of previous projects, multidisciplinary knowledge (plant and soil health, post-harvest quality) and innovations resulting from the project;
• support for actors involved in the agroecological transition of market gardening production systems through training and demonstration actions in schools, vocational training centers and pilot farms;
• the strengthening of agroecological market gardening production systems through advocacy with public decision-makers, communication with civil society actors and the development of academic training modules;
• the assessment of the environmental impact of these new agricultural practices through the monitoring of soil and plant health indicators and product quality;
• the development of a quality charter with a view to national organic labeling of local products and farmer networks.

The main results and products of the MARIGO project are:

• the establishment of a sustainable multi-stakeholder platform on market gardening agroecology;
• twelve leading market gardeners in each of the four study sites trained in agroecology, eight young researchers (theses) and twelve engineers (end-of-study internship) are also trained in the tools and techniques of agroecology;
• a network of committed labeled farmers (in compliance with a local charter of good agro-ecological or even organic practices) has been created, as well as a national committee representing players in the market gardening sector for the definition, allocation and compliance with an Ivorian organic label;
• pilot post-harvest conservation equipment is developed, audio/video clips, user manuals and good agro-ecological practice guides are produced and available to stakeholders;
• academic and professional training modules are developed for universities, schools and agricultural training centres;
• a varietal catalog of local vegetable species adapted to the environmental conditions of Côte d'Ivoire is produced;
• multidisciplinary knowledge in plant health, soil health, post-harvest technology, life cycle analysis and socio-economics of vegetable production systems is produced.

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