Agronomic assessment of agroecological technologies codesigned and experimented with the dairy farmers members of the Agroecological Living Landscape of Burkina Faso

Ouattara, S.D.; Sib, O.; Sanogo, S.; Sodre, E.; Vall, E.; Berre, D. (2024) Agronomic assessment of agroecological technologies codesigned and experimented with the dairy farmers members of the Agroecological Living Landscape of Burkina Faso. 26 p.

This framework aims to facilitate the collective assessment of results and lessons learned from the codesigned agroecological trials conducted in different Agroecological Living Landscapes (ALLs) participating in the CGIAR initiative on agroecology (AEI). The purpose of this assessment is to understand approaches and methods used for the design and evaluation of these trials (protocols, measurements performed, etc.) and contribute to the performance analysis of the agroecological technologies tested. While each trial within the initiative may be unique due to the context-specific codesign process, the framework aims to analyze them in a generic and structured way to facilitate cross-comparisons. Although agronomic in nature, the framework's assessment integrates the productive, environmental, and socioeconomic dimensions of the trials to compare agroecological technologies with current practices in each ALL. Additionally, the framework assesses contributions to the agroecological transition for each technology tested in the trials. This document serves as a guideline, to be enriched through interactions with country teams, with a final version potentially included as part of the codesign guidelines for the AE initiative.