Advancing ecological organic agriculture in Africa (Policy brief)

Summary

Based on the lessons learnt from farming systems research, pursuant to the goals of sustainable development, the topics covered and policy recommendations provided in this brief are relevant to agricultural policies at the national and regional level, as well as to the actors in specific commodities and sectors, organic value chains, and standards.
This brief considers how the results of three projects, SysCom, ProEcoAfrica and OFSA, can inform the debates on the future of organic agricultural development in Africa.
The SysCom program consists of long-term farming systems comparison trials running since 2007 in three tropical countries: India, Kenya and Bolivia. The ProEcoAfrica and OFSA projects worked with over 1,500 smallholder farmers in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, gathering data on the farm level between 2014 and 2020.