Substantive presence of the Agroecology Initiative expected at Tropentag 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
• Charting agroecological pathways: Multicriteria priority mapping for India’s sustainable transition (Oral presentation), Sudharsan Maliappan, IWMI
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Agroecological transitions in value chains – A multiple case analysis (Poster), Andrés Charry, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT
• 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
• 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
• Inclusion of gender and intersectionality in land, food and climate change policy: A feminist institutional approach (Oral presentation), Maria Blanco, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT
• A conceptual framework for agency and behavior change in agri-food systems transformation (Poster), Rachel Voss, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT
• Can agroecology provide opportunities for rural youth to manage natural resources sustainably at the landscape level? (Poster), Nadia Guettou Djurfeldt, Alliance Bioversity-CIAT