Cultivating Agroecology Transformations

 

23 January 2025. Cultivating Agroecology Transformations

How to transform to agroecology with ease and effect? How to spark ambitious action, motivate a range of actors and deal with challenges and obstacles?

GIZ’s Agroecology Leadership Academy was a comprehensive learning and developing programme for 38 participants from different countries across Africa and India, implemented from January to November 2024. It aimed at empowering leaders to catalyzing sustainable development, to navigate complexity and to be powerful transformation agents for agroecology.

As part of the academy, seven country teams were supported to put transformation initiatives into actions. Within a few months, the participants for instance catalyzed effective action by bringing unusual stakeholders together, developing innovative media products and spreading hands-on knowledge. The transformation initiatives and learning acquired will be presented in this exciting webinar.

The Agroecology Leadership Academy had 

38 participants from 7 countries:

• Benin, 

• Burkina Faso, 

• Ethiopia, 

• Kenya, 

• India, 

• Madagascar and 

• Tunisia

Part 1 (English)

• The Agroecology leadership Academy
• Zooming into the transformation initiative India
• Zooming into the transformation initiative Kenya
• Zooming into the transformation initiative Ethiopia
• Exchange

Part 2 (French)

Background:

The Agroecology Leadership Academy was implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and conducted with financial support from the European Union (EU) as part of the EU co-funded programme “ProSilience: Enhancing soils and agroecology for resilient agri-food systems in Sub-Sahara Africa”.

The Agroecology Leadership Academy had 38 participants from 7 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, India, Madagascar and Tunisia.

See also: Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Africa (KCOA)

KCOA is a collaborative country-led partnership that aims to scale up the adoption of organic and agroecological farming practices through a network of five Knowledge Hubs in Africa. Within KCOA, the implementing organisations

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