West Africa: For Sustainable Agriculture in West Africa, Let's Leave Our Echo Chambers

22 September 2020
analysis

Regional governments are supporting agroecology with one hand and business as usual with the other.

Sustainable agriculture is growing fast in West Africa, and the transition is only gaining momentum. Over recent years, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Togo have adopted policies in support of agroecology. The West African bloc ECOWAS has ramped up its support into a fully-fledged agroecology programme and is now a pilot region in the 'Scaling Up Agroecology' initiative launched by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. And West Africa's biggest farmers' organisation, ROPPA, is engaging with new ideas as a founding member of the Alliance for Agroecology in West Africa (3AO).

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