The agricultural sector, particularly in low-income countries, is facing multiple challenges including climate change, soaring food, fuel and fertilizer prices, biodiversity loss, and lack of adequate investment in agricultural development. With world hunger levels on the rise,1 an urgent move away from industrial agriculture and intensive farming practices is essential to avert catastrophic climate change2and the growing food crisis. Agroecology is a way of farming and managing crops, livestock, forests, and fisheries that is viable, long-lasting, resilient to climate change, and offers various other environmental, social, and cultural benefits such as addressing food and water scarcity, and poverty. Agroecological approaches are the most effective means of adaptation to climate change. In a landmark report, the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE, 2019) defines agroecology as follows: “Approaches that favour the use of natural processes, limit the use of purchased inputs, promote closed cycles with minimal negative externalities and stress the importance of local knowledge and participatory processes that develop knowledge and practice through experience, as well as more conventional scientific methods, and address social inequalities. Agroecological approaches recognize that agrifood systems are coupled with social–ecological systems from food production to consumption and involve science, practice and a social movement, as well as their holistic integration, to address food and nutritional security.”