Assessing Agroecological Transitions in Benin with the Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE)

The Measuring Agroecology and its Performance (MAP) project is a collaborative initiative of the Agroecology TPP aimed at fostering agroecological transitions by generating evidence of agroecology’s contribution to societal goals. The MAP project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), co-funded by the European Union (EU) and supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. The Tool for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE) was applied in 2024 in four municipalities (Za-Kpota, Bantè, Sinendé and Kandi) in Benin in the context of the Global Programme “Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security” (ProSoil). To assess the contribution of ProSoil to agroecological transitions of farmers and their multidimensional performance, TAPE was applied with 120 households that actively participated in ProSoil activities (ProSoil group) and with 120 households that had not actively participated in the programme (comparison group).