The Agroecological Transitions Program for Building Resilient and Inclusive Agricultural & Food Systems (TRANSITIONS) aims to enable climate-informed agroecological transitions by farmers at significant scales in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) through the development and adoption of:
Briefs
Inclusive Digital Tools (ATDT)
- Best practice guidance for inclusive digital tool development for sustainable rice in Vietnam
- Critiques of digital tools in agriculture: Challenges and opportunities for using digital tools to scale agroecology by smallholders
- Digital tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Exemplary features of digital tools for agroecology: A global review
- Key actions to develop inclusive digital resources for smallholder cattle ranchers in Brazil
- Socially inclusive digital tools for agriculture: A way forward
- Co-creation applied to digital innovations for smallholder farmers: An example from Brazil
- Digital tools for supporting climate-informed agroecological transition in beef production in Brazil
- Best practice guidance for inclusive digital tool development for sustainable rice in Vietnam
Traceable private-public sector sector incentives (PSII) and investments for climate change, resilience, and environmental sustainability
- Can digital value chain tracing drive the sustainability transition? A closer look at Peruvian cocoa
- Capacity-Strengthening Pathways Enabling Agroecological Transition in Vietnam’s Rice Sector
- Are the metrics that companies use effective for monitoring supply chain sustainability? A closer look at cocoa and rice
Publications
Inclusive Digital Tools (ATDT)
- Global digital tool review for agroecological transitions [data]
- Improving rice sustainability through digital tools
- Principles for socially inclusive digital tools for smallholder farmers: A guide
- Livestock practices, use of digital tools and co-design and flow of information: Brazil baseline
- Relatoria das entrevistas e webinar para o levantamento de percepções de representantes da cadeia da pecuária sobre o desenvolvimento de recursos digitais inclusivos na implementação de boas práticas(EN Summary)
- Systematic review of digital resources for climate-informed agroecological transitions in rice in the Mekong Delta
- Field testing digital tools in sustainable rice production in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
- Improving rice sustainability [in Vietnam] through digital tools
- Use of digital tools in sustainable rice production in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Traceable private-public sector sector incentives (PSII) and investments for climate change, resilience, and environmental sustainability
- Strengthening multi-stakeholder agroecology platforms in Peru: A landscape analysis
- Exploring cacao business models and agroecological transitions in Ucayali, Peru
- Strengthening multi-stakeholder agroecology platforms in Vietnam: a landscape analysis
- Strengthening multi-stakeholder agroecology platforms in Ethiopia: a landscape analysis
Working papers
Traceable private-public sector incentives and investments (PSii) for food systems
- Mockshell, J.; Ogutu, S.; Alvarez, D.; Nielsen, T.; Steinke, J.; Remans, R.; Quintero, M. (2023) Transitioning to agroecological food systems: A review of incentives for adoption of agroecological practices and outcomes. Cali (Colombia): Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). 31 p.
Holistic metrics for food and agricultural systems performance
- Lamanna C, Coe R, Crossland M, Fuchs LE, Barahona C, Chiputwa B, Orero L, Adoyo B and Geck M. (2024) Developing holistic assessments of food and agricultural systems: A meta‑framework for metrics users. Working Paper 4. Bogor, Indonesia and Nairobi, Kenya: CIFOR-ICRAF: The Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology.
- Lamanna C, Coe R, Crossland M, Fuchs LE, Barahona C, Chiputwa B, Orero L, Adoyo B and Geck M. (2024) Desarrollo de evaluaciones holísticas de sistemas alimentarios y agrícolas: Un metamarco para usuarios de parámetros. Working Paper 5. Bogor, Indonesia and Nairobi, Kenya: CIFOR-ICRAF: The Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology.
- Lamanna C, Coe R, Crossland M, Fuchs LE, Barahona C, Chiputwa B, Orero L, Adoyo B and Geck M. (2024) Développement d’évaluations holistiques des systèmes alimentaires et agricoles : Méta-cadre à l’attention des utilisateurs d’indicateurs et de mesures. Working Paper 6. Bogor, Indonesia and Nairobi, Kenya: CIFOR-ICRAF: The Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology.
- Lamanna C, Coe R, Crossland M, Fuchs LE, Barahona C, Chiputwa B, Orero L, Adoyo B and Geck M. (2024) Xây dựng đánh giá toàn diện hệ thống lương thực và nông nghiệp: Khung tổng hợp cho người dùng chỉ số. Working Paper 7. Bogor, Indonesia and Nairobi, Kenya: CIFOR-ICRAF: The Transformative Partnership Platform on Agroecology.
Blogs and Op-eds
Traceable private-public sector sector incentives (PSII) and investments for climate change, resilience, and environmental sustainability
- How to integrate agroecological principles into Peru’s cocoa business model for sustainable and resilient agriculture
- How the EU can prevent its deforestation-free law from being a half measure
- Enabling agroecological transitions in Ethiopia
- Entre saberes y sabores: el camino hacia la agroecología
- Collaborative Learning and Joint Creation Workshop on Agroecological Transitions in Ethiopia
- Transforming Ethiopian food systems: Leveraging private sector incentives to drive agroecological wheat production
Inclusive Digital Tools (ATDT)
- Farmer co-design of climate change solutions
- What makes an “exemplary” digital solution for agroecology?
- Inclusive digital tools to scale smallholder agroecology
- Brazil farmer workshop with Solidaridad
- TRANSITIONS: Inclusive digital tools to scale smallholder agroecology
- Use of digital tools in sustainable rice production in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam – also available via CGIAR
- Solidaridad blog on co-creation workshops – also available in English
Holistic metrics for food and agricultural systems performance
- What’s measured matters: Agrifood system metrics for a finite planet – new meta-framework seeks to help ‘level the playing field’ for holistic approaches
- Measuring the impact of agroecology on food security
TRANSITIONS program
- Agroecological TRANSITIONS: Inclusive digital tools to scale smallholder agroecology
- What’s needed to make agroecology mainstream? – also available in French and Spanish
Posters
Traceable private-public sector sector incentives (PSII) and investments for climate change, resilience, and environmental sustainability
- Poster by Andrea Sanchez, presented at the Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Research in Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development (Tropentag) on 22 September 2023 during a session on “Social dynamics of food systems transformation”. Factors associated with the adoption of diversified farming systems: A global meta-analysis (tropentag.de)
- Project poster prepared for the Agroecology TPP 2024 Members Forum meeting can be found here
Holistic metrics for food and agricultural systems performance
- Project poster prepared for the Agroecology TPP 2024 Members Forum meeting can be found here
Inclusive Digital Tools (ATDT)
- Project poster prepared for the Agroecology TPP 2024 Members Forum meeting can be found here
Research and journal articles
Holistic metrics for food and agricultural systems performance
- Geck, M. S., Crossland, M., & Lamanna, C. (2023). Measuring agroecology and its performance: An overview and critical discussion of existing tools and approaches. Outlook on Agriculture, 52(3), 349-359. https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270231196309
Traceable private-public sector sector incentives (PSII) and investments for climate change, resilience, and environmental sustainability
- Natalia Estrada-Carmona, Rachel Carmenta, James Reed, Ermias Betemariam, Fabrice DeClerck, Thomas Falk, Abigail K. Hart, Sarah K. Jones, Fritz Kleinschroth, Matthew McCartney, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Jeff Milder, Marcela Quintero, Roseline Remans, Diego Valbuena, Louise Willemen, Camilla Zanzanaini, Wei Zhang. Reconciling conservation and development requires enhanced integration and broader aims: A cross-continental assessment of landscape approaches, One Earth,Volume 7, Issue 10,2024, Pages 1858-1873, ISSN 2590-3322, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.08.014(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259033222400424X)
- Jonathan Steinke, Yovita Ivanova, Sarah K. Jones, Thai Minh, Andrea Sánchez, José Sánchez-Choy, Jonathan Mockshell. Digital sustainability tracing in smallholder context: ex-ante insights from the Peruvian cocoa supply chain. World Development Sustainability, 2024, 100185, ISSN 2772-655X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2024.100185(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X24000636)
Datasets
Inclusive Digital Tools (ATDT)
Holistic metrics for food and agricultural systems performance
- Crossland, M., Orero, L., Adoyo, B., Mwangi, V., Anyango, E., Gaylord, J., Chiputwa, B., Lamanna, C., Coe, R., Fuchs, L.E., Kuria, A., & Geck, M., 2024, “Dataset for Measuring the Holistic Performance of Food and Agricultural Systems: A Systematic Review”, https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/BVVKE2 , World Agroforestry (ICRAF), V1
Brochures
Traceable private-public sector sector incentives (PSII) and investments for climate change, resilience, and environmental sustainability
Videos
Traceable private-public sector sector incentives (PSII) and investments for climate change, resilience, and environmental sustainability
Infographics
Traceable private-public sector sector incentives (PSII) and investments for climate change, resilience, and environmental sustainability