Position paper: Improving the Integration of Agroecological Transition within Projects Financed by the AFD Group

For the past twenty years, the Agence Française de Développement has been committed to supporting the Agroecological Transition (AET) of agricultural systems.
As knowledge and understanding of agroecology progressed, AFD has financed projects promoting an increasingly diverse range of agroecological practices, gradually adopting a territorial approach.
Agroecological production systems constitute a combination of economic, social, environmental and health performance levers.

The ambition of this position paper is to establish a common language for characterising the AFD Group's initiatives in favour of agroecology.
In order to enhance the integration of agroecology within the operations it finances, the AFD Group herein formulates the operational orientations for its implementation methods (multi-stakeholder approaches, synergies between projects, etc.) as well as the monitoring and evaluation of its operations (production of reference baselines to support political decision-making, for example).
The achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals implies a transformation of food systems strongly focused on agroecology.