Regional governments are supporting agroecology with one hand and business as usual with the other. Sustainable agriculture is growing fast in West Africa, and the transition is only gaining momentum. Over recent years, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Togo have adopted policies in support of agroecology. The West African bloc ECOWAS has ramped up its support into a fully-fledged  agroecology programme and is now a pilot region in the ‘Scaling Up Agroecology’ initiative launched by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. And West Africa’s biggest farmers’ organisation, ROPPA, is engaging with new ideas as a founding member of the Alliance for … Continue reading For sustainable agriculture in West Africa, let’s leave our echo chambers