Analyses des effets socio-économiques etenvironnementaux des pratiques agroécologiques

The Global Programme “Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security” (ProSoil) aims to promote food security through the protection and rehabilitation of degraded soils, with a particular interest in assessing the performance of agroecological practices in the intervention areas. The proposed collaborative work between ICRAF and GIZ leveraged activities of the Metrics Project and resulted in evidence generation through the collection and processing of robust and harmonized data on the levels of agroecological transition and the multidimensional performance of agroecology at farm/ household and territorial levels by using the Tool for Agroecological Performance Evaluation (TAPE).

Since 2015, ProSoil has been empowering communities to address environmental and food-security challenges by implementing interventions, such as agroforestry, conservation agriculture, soil and water management, integrated pest management, and policy advice. Through effective collaboration with smallholder farmers, experts and decision makers, ProSoil has fostered a landscape transition towards sustainable farming practices. TAPE results from 120 farms that actively participated in ProSoil activities were compared with 120 farms that had not participated in ProSoil activities. To specifically assess the contribution of agroecology to improved soil health within ProSoil farms, as opposed to the comparison farms, TAPE was complemented with the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) methodology to gain more detailed insights into the contribution of agroecological integration to physiochemical soil characteristics.