CGIAR News; July 30 2024

With 24 interventions from six partner centers, the CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology will be well represented at this year’s Tropentag, to take place from 11-13 September in Vienna, Austria.

The team will organize 5 pre-conference workshops, make five oral presentations and present 14 posters covering the different work packages of the initiative. These interventions provide a deep dive into the progress of ongoing action research and initiative implementation.

Work package 1: Agroecological Living Landscapes (ALLs)

Vision to Action for agroecological transitions in ALLs

• Agroecological Transitions in Kenya: Pathways and Lessons (Pre-conference workshop), Christine Chege, Lisa Fuchs and Sylvia Nyawira, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT
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• Charting agroecological pathways: Multicriteria priority mapping for India’s sustainable transition (Oral presentation), Sudharsan Maliappan, IWMI
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• Supporting locally driven agroecological transformation through agroecological living landscapes (ALLs): A practical toolkit for implementation (Poster), Lisa Fuchs and Rachel Voss, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT

Co-designing technical innovations in ALLs

• Agroecology homestead models: enhancing nutrition, soil health, and income for tribal farmers (Poster), Sudharsan Maliappan, IWMI
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• Innovative agroecology practices improve maize and bean yields in nutrient-deficient sandy soils of Makueni, Kenya (Poster), Peter Bolo and Lisa Fuchs, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT and Hezekiah Korir, IITA
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• Krishi Kund for agroecological transition of degraded lands: microsite for improved production and ecosystem services (Poster), Sudharsan Maliappan, IWMI

Work Package 2: Agroecological Assessments

• Agroecological impacts of community-based land rehabilitation and soil fertility enhancement in Madhya Pradesh (Poster), Shweta Gupta, IFPRI

Work package 3: Developing agroecological business models by linking food system actors along the value chain

• Agroecology on the school food menu, the seeds of a sustainable transition (Oral presentation), Modou Gueye Fall, CIRAD.
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• Agroecological transitions in value chains – A multiple case analysis (Poster), Andrés Charry, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT
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• Cost-benefit analysis of agroecological transition: A case of mango value chain in Kenya (Poster), Kevin Onyango, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT, and Aurillia Manjella Ndiw, IITA
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• Empowering smallholder olive growers in northwest Tunisia through an agroecological business model (Poster), Rihab Mejri, ICARDA

Work Package 4: Supporting policy and institutional decision-making towards agroecological transformations

• Repairing the Mosaic: the political economy of landscape-level agroecological transitions (Oral presentation), Sonali Singh, IFPRI

Work Package 5: Understanding and influencing agency and behavior change in agroecological transformation processes

• Behavioral Change towards Food-system Transformation (Pre-conference workshop), Rachel Voss, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT and Muzna Alvi, IFPRI
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• Inclusion of gender and intersectionality in land, food and climate change policy: A feminist institutional approach (Oral presentation), Maria Blanco, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT
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• A conceptual framework for agency and behavior change in agri-food systems transformation (Poster), Rachel Voss, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT
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• Can agroecology provide opportunities for rural youth to manage natural resources sustainably at the landscape level? (Poster), Nadia Guettou Djurfeldt, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT

See https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/substantive-presence-of-the-agroecology-initiative-expected-at-tropentag-2024/