AVACLIM : Agro-ecology, Ensuring Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods while Mitigating Climate Change and Restoring Land in Dryland Regions

Policy-makers and stakeholders are able to prioritise and implement agroecological systems in drylands as a means to sustain productivity of agro-ecosystems in support of food security, agricultural livelihoods, and reduce environmental degradation and GHG emissions.

Indicators: i) Number of project proposals and draft policy documents (strategies, laws, financial plans) integrating agroecology and its principles
ii) Number of countries who have agroecology in their government agenda for discussions on agricultural development planning

Targets: i) At least three countries out of seven have developed a project proposal or a draft updated policy document promoting agroecology
ii) Seven countries have agroecology in their agenda for discussions on agricultural development planning