Mapping of Green Transition actors championing agroecological practices for sub-Saharan Africa

This report presents a shortlist, as well as a long list, of actors that support agroecological transitions and are (potential) ‘champions’ of innovations that can accelerate the ‘Green Transition’ (GT) of agri-food systems transformation. These so-called ‘GT actors’ can drive change and scale innovations through advocacy, awareness raising or investments in the private sector, civil society, and governments. The shortlist has been prepared following an extensive actor mapping exercise of organisations involved in agroecology in sub-Saharan Africa. The shortlist presented in this report provides recommendations for the organisations to be considered under priority 3 Green Transition of the MIP for sub-Saharan Africa and includes governmental and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), civil-society organisations (CSOs), initiatives, networks, alliances, but also private sector actors. However, it needs to be underlined that the longlist as well as the shortlist should strictly be considered as the results of an initial mapping exercise, subject to limitations further explained in Chapter 2. 

Following this introductory chapter, chapter 2 provides a description about the approach and mapping methodology, including an overview of steps and criteria used to narrow down the long list, resulting in a short list of potential GT actors. Chapter 3 consists of a description of short-listed actors in the frame of the Green Transition component per region, and chapter 4 gives a number of concluding remarks. Annex 1 provides the long list of Green Transition actors involved in agroecology in sub-Saharan Africa.