Environment and Energy

Ecoagriculture Partnership

(www.ecoagriculturepartners.org)

The Ecogariculture partnerships: aims to promote the profile and use of Ecoagriculture, currently defined as "sustainable and associated natural resource management that embraces and simultaneously enhances productivity, rural livelihoods, ecosystem services and biodiversity, by catalysing:

• Research and land-use innovation with farmers and conservationists
• Capacity building
• Education and public awareness
• Enabling policies
• Resource mobilization

Proposed Outcomes include: Raising the profile and adoption of land use systems that increase agricultural productivity, ecosystem services and biodiversity; Establishing criteria for project measurement and qualification; Identifying policy bottlenecks and recommend policy frameworks to facilitate the scaling up of Ecoagriculture use; and Mobilizing the necessary resources to support the implementation of such land management systems.