Achieving agroecological food system transformation

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dc.creatorFuchs, Lisa Elena
dc.creatorAwiti, Alex
dc.creatorNyawira, Sylvia
dc.creatorChege, Christine G. Kiria
dc.creatorGuettou Djurfeldt, Nadia
dc.date2025-03-20
dc.date2025-06-04T13:18:06Z
dc.date2025-06-04T13:18:06Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T13:22:36Z
dc.descriptionWhile 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.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174970
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/57448
dc.languageen
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceFuchs, 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
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjecttransformation
dc.subjectfood systems
dc.subjectagroecology
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectgovernance
dc.subjectperformance assessment
dc.subjectgender equality
dc.subjectpartnerships
dc.subjectparticipatory approaches
dc.subjectfarming systems-farming
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectinclusion
dc.subjectparticipatory action research
dc.subjectincentives
dc.subjectcapacity development-capacity building
dc.subjectequity
dc.subjectextension
dc.subjectsystems research
dc.subjectagroecosystems
dc.titleAchieving agroecological food system transformation
dc.typeNews Item

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