In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), agricultural investment remains a priority for economic development. Sustainability is a key challenge in LMICs, as many of the current agricultural practices reduce soil fertility and greatly depend on external inputs. Agroecological approaches are increasingly recognized as a means to improve sustainable development of food systems, ensuring the regenerative use of natural resources and ecosystem services, while also addressing the need for more socially equitable decision-making.

Climate-informed agroecological transitions require a multi-faceted support to farmers, enabling them to shift to more sustainable agriculture production systems that increase food security while minimizing negative ecological and human impacts.

Yet, supporting farmers to make the transition to agroecology globally has been constrained by a lack of

1. metrics to holistically assess agroecology and guide outcome-based policy and investment
2. incentives and investments to support innovative pathways and traceable private-public sector models for agroecology
3. tools, including digital tools, that provide technical support and performance assessments for practioners.

In addition, current guidance to agroecology has not integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation practices.ur text with the toolbar above

TRANSITIONS aims to enable climate-informed agroecological transitions by farmers at significant scales in LMICs through the development and adoption of:

• Holistic metrics for food and agricultural systems performance
• Inclusive digital tools
• Traceable private-public sector incentives and investments for food systems.

For each of these 3 objectives, TRANSITIONS has a dedicated work stream (click on the links to learn more).