Achieving agroecological food system transformation

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationBioversity Internationalen
cg.contributor.affiliationCenter for International Forestry Researchen
cg.contributor.initiativeAgroecology
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.creator.identifierLisa Elena Fuchs: 0000-0002-8342-6087en
cg.creator.identifierSylvia Sarah Nyawira: 0000-0003-4913-1389en
cg.creator.identifierChristine G.Kiria Chege: 0000-0001-8360-0279en
cg.creator.identifierNadia Guettou Djurfeldt: 0009-0007-9300-5458en
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.rural21.com/english/a-closer-look-at/detail/article/achieving-agroecological-food-system-transformation-1.htmlen
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatAGRICULTUREen
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatFARMING SYSTEMSen
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatFOOD SYSTEMSen
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatSUSTAINABILITYen
cg.subject.alliancebiovciatVALUE CHAINSen
cg.subject.impactAreaEnvironmental health and biodiversity
cg.subject.sdgSDG 1 - No povertyen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
cg.subject.sdgSDG 3 - Good health and well-beingen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 8 - Decent work and economic growthen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 10 - Reduce inequalitiesen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 12 - Responsible production and consumptionen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate actionen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 15 - Life on landen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 17 - Partnerships for the goalsen
dc.contributor.authorFuchs, Lisa Elenaen
dc.contributor.authorAwiti, Alexen
dc.contributor.authorNyawira, Sylviaen
dc.contributor.authorChege, Christine G. Kiriaen
dc.contributor.authorGuettou Djurfeldt, Nadiaen
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-04T13:18:06Z
dc.date.available2025-06-04T13:18:06Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174970
dc.titleAchieving agroecological food system transformationen
dcterms.abstractWhile agroecological solutions exist at farm level, scaling them to broader food, land and water systems entails many hurdles. The CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology was launched in order to clear them. Based on their experience in Kenya, our authors share some overarching insights. A redesign of food systems is urgently needed to achieve ecological, economic and social sustainability. Agroecology offers a transformative pathway that integrates sustainable and resilient agricultural practices with increased agency for smallholder farmers and other food system actors, and pays special attention to women, youth and other marginalised groups. Agroecological solutions are well documented at farm level, but applying them to broader food, land and water systems remains a challenge given insufficient evidence, misaligned policies, inadequate capacity, insufficient attention to intersecting inequalities and limited financing mechanisms. The CGIAR Initiative on Agroecology (see Box) has been aiming to address these barriers by promoting the application of contextually appropriate agroecological principles by food system actors such as farmers, businesses, government entities and policy-makers in so-called agroecological living landscapes (ALLs). The latter are geographically bounded landscapes in which farmers, agroecology practitioners, researchers and other development actors identify, test and promote agroecological innovations across sectors and scales, thus generating evidence on the transformative potential of agroecology and identifying institutional innovations. As we come to the end of a three-year cycle of collaborative implementation and transition to a new CGIAR Science Program on Multifunctional Landscapes, the Agroecology Initiative Kenya research team leads share the following nine key messages.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationFuchs, L.E.; Awiti, A.; Nyawira, S.; Chege, C.G.K.; Guettou Djurfeldt, N. (2025) Achieving agroecological food system transformation. [News item] rural21. Published online 20 March 2025. URL: https://www.rural21.com/english/a-closer-look-at/detail/article/achieving-agroecological-food-system-transformation-1.html
dcterms.issued2025-03-20en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjecttransformationen
dcterms.subjectfood systemsen
dcterms.subjectagroecologyen
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
dcterms.subjectgovernanceen
dcterms.subjectperformance assessmenten
dcterms.subjectgender equalityen
dcterms.subjectpartnershipsen
dcterms.subjectparticipatory approachesen
dcterms.subjectfarming systems-farmingen
dcterms.subjectpoliciesen
dcterms.subjectinclusionen
dcterms.subjectparticipatory action researchen
dcterms.subjectincentivesen
dcterms.subjectcapacity development-capacity buildingen
dcterms.subjectequityen
dcterms.subjectextensionen
dcterms.subjectsystems researchen
dcterms.subjectagroecosystemsen
dcterms.typeNews Item

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