CGIAR July 2 2024

The CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology works in eight countries of the Global South. From the beginning, country teams aimed at learning from each other while co-developing with their national partners the vision and actions required to achieve agroecological transitions.

The International Network of Agroecology Living Landscapes (INALL) is the mechanism that the Initiative designed to provide an opportunity for its members to share knowledge. One of the recent examples of how it works and what it provides is the Kenya – Zimbabwe exchange visit that took place from the 9^th to the 11^th of April 2024 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Specifically, the visit included staff members and students involved in work package 1, which focuses on the mobilization and facilitation of multi-actor agroecological living landscapes (ALLs), as well as the co-design of innovative on-farm practices. The teams’ objectives were to foster learning opportunities on good scientific practices in data management, agroecological practices in the field, business models and financial mechanisms that are conducive to agroecological transitions, and various livelihood effects experienced by food system actors to date.

The Kenya team travelled to Zimbabwe to learn from their team’s vast experience in “digital agronomy” data management, which includes aspects such as data collection that facilitate easy data flow, the integration of different data sources through modelling, and innovative data visualization to foster differentiated insights into the performance of the practices put under trial. The visit entailed both theoretical and practical sessions on data analysis in R. These sessions were embedded in broader introductions, reflections, and discussions of the engagement and co-design approaches taken in both countries, and in the kinds of on-farm experiments conducted as one of their results.

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