ACT's objectives include the following:

1. To update, broaden and make more active the ACT membership and farmer networks
2. To capture, synthesize and bank CA knowledge and disseminate/share widely with stakeholders
3. To emphasize on building-up local human capital through empowering farmers in own on-farm experimentation, monitoring, evaluation and learning
4. To lobby governments, institutions and donor support for Conservation Agriculture
5. To forge strategic partnerships (with NEPAD, National Governments, and NGO's) for interventions that will elevate farmers beyond crop productivity to diversifying to better income generation enterprises, and commercial farming.
6. To network and assist farmers with CA incentive schemes, cost sharing of risks and access to CA inputs/equipment, and
7. To make visible and strike supportive links of CA to niche sectors (energy and hydropower watershed management, environment, and climate change)