The European Space Agency  GDA Climate Adaptation and Finance (CA&F) consortium is working with the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) to co-design an Earth Observatory (EO) demonstrator for RICOWAS, an Adaptation Fund-financed project working with around 125,000 farmers across 13 countries to scale climate-resilient rice production in West Africa by promoting the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). The planned approach centres on progressing towards a blended method, bringing geolocated ground data and open-source satellite imagery together to strengthen monitoring and evaluation. Time series of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data will be used to map rice areas to enable future assessment of productivity differences between SRI and conventional plots, with additional datasets covering climate vulnerability, land cover, and conservation status to identify any unintended consequences, such as encroachment into protected natural areas.