Mapping the climate and agronomic digital advisory services landscape in West and Central Africa: A step towards making food systems productive and climate resilient

PLOS One | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0338010 December 3, 2025 18 / 20 Acknowledgments This work was implemented as part of the CGIAR Regional Integrated Initiative “Transforming Agrifood Systems in West and Central Africa (TAFS-WCA)”. Part of this paper has been published as a synthesis report on CGSpace: Mapping climate and agronomic digital advisory services landscape in West and Central Africa (WCA) | Alliance Bioversity Inter- national – CIAT. The authors also thank Glenn Hyman and Olga Spellman (Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Science Writing Service) for copy editing and technical review of this manuscript. Author contributions Conceptualization: Manjari Singh, Mathieu Ouedraogo, Daniel Jimenez, Desire Kagabo, Julian Ramirez, Peter Laderach. Data curation: Manjari Singh, Daniel Jimenez, Tiffany Talsma, Adama Ouedraogo. Formal analysis: Manjari Singh, Tiffany Talsma. Funding acquisition: Mathieu Ouedraogo, Julian Ramirez, Peter Laderach. Investigation: Adama Ouedraogo. Methodology: Mathieu Ouedraogo, Daniel Jimenez, Tiffany Talsma, Desire Kagabo, Julian Ramirez, Peter Laderach. Project administration: Mathieu Ouedraogo. Resources: Tiffany Talsma, Adama Ouedraogo. Supervision: Mathieu Ouedraogo, Desire Kagabo, Julian Ramirez, Peter Laderach. Visualization: Manjari Singh. Writing – original draft: Manjari Singh. Writing – review & editing: Manjari Singh, Mathieu Ouedraogo, Daniel Jimenez, Tiffany Talsma. References

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