Arbenz, Markus; Bernet, Thomas; Ssebunya, Brian and Riahi, Jouhaina (2022) Evaluation Report for the project: Mainstreaming Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) into Agricultural Systems in Africa for the Period 2019-2023. Research Institut of Organic Agriculture FiBL, CH-Frick .
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In 2011, the Executive Council of the African Union (AU) took a decision to build an Africa wide organic agriculture platform. The African Union Commission (AUC) accepted the mandate, built the so-called Continental Steering Committee for Ecological Organic Agriculture (CSC) and launched the Ecological Organic Agriculture Initiative (EOA-I). It got support among others from SDC in the framework of the Global Program Food Security (GPFS).
Organic agriculture and agroecology are worldwide concepts that are well-defined, researched and promoted by the United Nations (e.g. the FAO Agroecology elements), governments (e.g. regulation of Organic Agriculture in over 90 countries), civil society (e.g. the global organic umbrella, IFOAM Organics International) and science (e.g. FiBL research).
SDC has been providing support to EOA-I under the project name “Mainstreaming Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) into Agricultural Systems in Africa”. A second phase is now being implemented, from 2019 – 2023. SDC contracted FiBL in April 2022 to implement the evaluation of the second phase of the project, based on 44 evaluation questions along the DAC/OECD evaluation criteria.
Information for this evaluation originates from various SDC/BVAT discussions, 2 hybrid stakeholder workshops in English (70 participants) and French (20 participants), 35 project documents, from 101 respondents in a stakeholder survey, 55 respondents in face-to-face (individual and group) interviews and 17 respondents in online interviews.
EPrint Type: | Report |
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Keywords: | Africa, Agroecology, Knowledge exchange, Policy and sector development, Regional added value, Sustainable nutrition, EOA-I Evaluation, Abacus, FiBL65233 |
Agrovoc keywords: | Language Value URI English Africa http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_165 English agroecology http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_92381 English knowledge exchange -> knowledge sharing http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_539fa2f6 English value chains http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2cbe5456 English sustainability http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33560 |
Subjects: | Knowledge management > Education, extension and communication Food systems > Produce chain management "Organics" in general > Countries and regions > Africa |
Research affiliation: | Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > International > Regions > Africa Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Society > Regional added value Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Sustainability > Agroecology Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Society > Sustainable nutrition |
Related Links: | https://www.fibl.org/en/themes/projectdatabase/projectitem/project/2117 |
Deposited By: | Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau, FiBL |
ID Code: | 52797 |
Deposited On: | 12 Mar 2024 08:25 |
Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2024 08:25 |
Document Language: | English |
Status: | Unpublished |
Refereed: | Not peer-reviewed |
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