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AVACLIM partners

CARI, project leader

Country: 
Saharan periphery, world 🌍
Date of creation: 
1998
Mission :
The CARI coordinates Avaclim, it is the project leader in charge of its implementation. It also coordinates two of the four components: the advocacy part and the communication part.

CARI promotes a sustainable agricultural model to respond to the problem of land degradation in arid zones. CARI does not wish to replace local skills. It supports civil society organizations and local communities. CARI is a reference for the French government and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. In order to achieve its objectives, it is organised into 4 thematic areas: promoting agroecology, safeguarding oases, sustainable land management in the Sahel and supporting French stakeholders.

Concerning the promotion of agroecology, CARI is part of an agroecological transition approach and recognizes the limits of intensive and industrial agricultural systems, requiring a redefinition of agriculture to strengthen its links with livestock farming and local socio-economic specificities.
Network:
CARI is a founding member of the Agroecological Transitions Working Group (ATWG). It created and coordinates RADDO (Réseau associatif de développement des oasis), ReSaD (Réseau Sahel Désertification) and GTD (Groupe de Travail Désertification).
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Implementing NGO partners

Agrisud international 
 Fondation Norsys

Country: 
Morocco 🇲🇦
Date of creation:  
1992 / 2001
Mission:
Agrisud carries out development projects in 14 countries, in partnership with local associations. These projects aim to create family-scale agricultural structures, with an emphasis on an agro-ecological transition.
The Norsys Foundation supports the creation of small agro-ecological businesses with training and support programmes lasting several years in a global performance approach: economic through income security, social through sanitary quality and food security through rational management of natural resources.
Network:
Agrisud is a member of numerous technical networks such as the Working Group on Agroecological Transitions (WGEA), as well as the Ashoka network for the promotion of social entrepreneurship.
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ARFA - Association pour la Recherche et la Formation en Agroécologie

Country: 
Burkina Faso 🇧🇫
Date of creation:  
1995
Mission:
ARFA promotes a healthy and productive environment through the creation, with the commitment of village communities, of a new agriculture based on agroecology. It implements training, action research and climate change awareness activities and has developed an agroecological farm. It supports the implementation of a national framework for organic agriculture.
Network:
In Burkina Faso, ARFA is a member of CNABIO (National Centre for Organic Agriculture) and SPONG (coalition of NGOs), at the regional level of the Coalition for the Protection of Genetic Heritage (COPAGEN) and of PAN AFRICA (Pan-African Network for Alternatives to the Use of Chemical Pesticides) and of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM).
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Caatinga - Centro de Assessoria e Apoio a Trabalhadores/as e Instituições não governamentais Alternativas

Country: 
Brazil 🇧🇷
Date of creation:  
1988
Mission:
Caatinga aims to protect biodiversity through the creation and management of protected areas and the promotion of research, education and capacity building. Guided by an agro-ecological approach and in collaboration with training centres, Caatinga develops actions to promote and strengthen family farming and to guarantee the rights of the population of the Brazilian semi-arid region.
Network:
Caatinga is a member of the agroecological networks Articulaçao National da Agroecologia (ANA), Articulaçao Semiarido Brasileiro (ASA) and the Drynet network.
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EMG - Environmental Monitoring Group


Country: 
South Africa 🇿🇦
Date of creation:  
1991
Mission:
EMG strengthens the participation of civil society in decision-making processes that affect them, encourages policies and practices that combat environmental injustice and promotes sustainable development. The organization work both with decision-makers and civil society organisations, through information (by providing access to quality research and analysis), facilitation (by bringing groups of common interest together to define joint strategies or to meet decision-makers) and demonstration activities (particularly on agro-ecological practices).
Network:
EMG provided the secretariat for the Adaptation Network, which aims to share information on climate change adaptation in South Africa. As a continuation of its advocacy work, EMG is involved in the international networks SA Water Caucus and Drynet.
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ENDA Pronat - Association pour l’environnement et le Développement - Action pour la Protection Naturelle des Terroirs

Country: 
Senegal 🇸🇳
Date of creation:  
1990
Mission:
ENDA Pronat intervenes for the development of healthy and sustainable agriculture. Its actions are based on organisational and technical capacity building, the promotion of renewable energies, product enhancement, advocacy against GMOs and land grabbing, governance of local resources and the strengthening of women's access to land and decision-making positions.
Network:
In Senegal, Enda Pronat is a member of the National Federation of Organic Farmers (FENAB), at the regional level of the Coalition for the Protection of Genetic Heritage (COPAGEN) and at the international level of the CSO Group on Research for Agricultural Development (CSO-GCARD). They are also very active in the Senegalese Agro-Ecology Task Force (TAFAé).
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GBS - Gram Bharati Samiti


Country: 
India 🇮🇳
Date of creation:  
1984
Mission:
GBS aims to protect and improve the environment by preserving natural resources such as land, water, soil and forests. GBS's work has focused on the restoration of waste, barren, sandy and degraded land in the arid zone of India, in consultation and collaboration with local village communities, especially women and youth.
Network:
The GBS President coordinates the AFON (Asian Friends of Nature) network, a network created by GBS which brings together 52 NGOs from various regions of India.
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ISD - Institute for Sustainable Development

Country: 
Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Date of creation:  
1996
Mission:
ISD promotes the use of ecologically sustainable knowledge, practices and innovations and integrates traditional and modern knowledge through a participatory approach. Actions are based on the implementation of training, dissemination of manuals and follow-up support for small farmers, youth and other groups to encourage them to develop sustainable livelihoods based on agro-ecology and sustainable management of natural resources.
Network:
ISD is a member of the Ecological Organic Agriculture Initiative for Africa.
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Both ENDS

Country: 
The Netherlands 🇳🇱
Date of creation:  
1986
Mission:
For nearly 30 years Both ENDS has been strengthening civil society organizations, mainly in developing countries, to exert a decisive influence on policies that propose sustainable solutions to problems related to the environment and poverty
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Scientific partners

IRD - Institut de Recherche 

Country: 
France 🇫🇷
Date of creation:  
1937
Mission:
As a French public research institution, the IRD defends an original model of equitable scientific partnership with the countries of the South and an interdisciplinary and citizen science, committed to the achievement of sustainable development goals.
Role:
IRD is leading the Avaclim scientific consortium, composed of CIRAD and Montpellier SupAgro via :

-the joint research unit Eco&.Sols, bringing together the Montpellier SupAgro school, CIRAD, INRAE and IRD
-the joint research unit Innovation and Development in Agriculture and Agrifoods, bringing together Montpellier SupAgro, cIRAD and INRAE and IRD
-the CIRAD Aïda research unit (Agroecology and Sustainable Intensification of Annual Crops)
-the Institut des Régions Chaudes de Montpellier SupAgro

The consortium involves research institutes and scientific partners from the 7 countries where Avaclim is taking place
The association of these different units and institutes covers the thematic fields enabling the work of Avaclim's component 2 to be carried out: scientific evaluation of agro-ecological initiatives to measure the impact of agro-ecological practices in the environmental, agronomic, economic and social fields.
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Montpellier SupAgro

Country: 
France 🇫🇷
Date of creation:  
1848
Mission:
Montpellier SupAgro is the national school of higher agricultural studies in Montpellier. It trains 1,700 students every year.
Role:
Montpellier SupAgro is part of Avaclim's scientific consortium and is thus involved in developing the approach for evaluating agroecological initiatives.
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Cirad

Country: 
France 🇫🇷
Mission:
CIRAD is the French agricultural research and international cooperation organization for sustainable development in tropical and Mediterranean regions.
Role:
CIRAD is part of the Avaclim scientific consortium and is thus involved in developing the approach for assessing agroecological initiatives.
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Financial Partners

FFEM - Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial

Country: 
France 🇫🇷
Date of creation:  
1994
Mission:
The FGEF is a bilateral public fund created by the French government following the Rio Summit. It promotes the protection of the global environment in sustainable development projects.

Innovation is its hallmark: testing solutions and then facilitating their deployment in other geographies and/or on a larger scale by other donors or commercial banks in the North or locally.
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FEM - Fonds pour l’Environnement Mondial

Country: 
Organisation internationale 🌐
Date of creation:  
1992
Mission:
The GEF is an international co-financing mechanism providing grants to its 183 member countries to achieve the objectives of international environmental conventions and agreements. Since its inception just prior to the Rio Summit, the GEF has received contributions from 39 donor countries.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is the executing agency chosen by the GEF to provide technical assistance in the implementation of Avaclim. The FAO is the specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts towards the elimination of hunger.
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