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Côte d’Ivoire has substantially neglected crop residues from farms in rural areas so this study aimed to provide strategies for the sustainable conversion of these products to hydrogen. The use of existing data showed that in the Côte d’Ivoire there were up to 16801306 tons of crop residues from 11 crop types in 2019 from which 1296424.84 tons of hydrogen could potentially be derived via theoretical gasification and dark fermentation approaches. As 907497.39 tons of hydrogen is expected annually the following estimations were derived. The three hydrogen-project implementation scenarios developed indicate that Ivorian industries could be supplied with 9026635 gigajoules of heat alongside 17910 cars and 4732 buses in the transport sector. It was estimated that 817293.95 tons of green ammonia could be supplied to farmers. According to the study 5727992 households could be expected to have access to 1718.40 gigawatts of electricity. Due to these changes in the transport energy industry and agricultural sectors a reduction of 1644722.08 tons of carbon dioxide per year could theoretically be achieved. With these scenarios around 263276.87 tons of hydrogen could be exported to other countries. The conversion of crop residues to hydrogen is a promising opportunity with environmental and socio-economic impacts. Therefore this study requires further extensive research.