ABACO Overview
Geographic areas of focus: Semiarid areas of East (Kenya, Tanzania), West (Mali, Burkina Faso) and Southern (Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Madagascar) Africa The overall objective is to reduce the vulnerability of smallholder farmers to climatic...

What is Conservation Agriculture (CA)?
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a farming approach that fosters natural ecological processes to increase agricultural yields and sustainability by minimizing soil disturbance (zero tillage); maintaining permanent soil cover; and diversifying crop...

In what ways is CA farming different from conventional farming?
Conservation agriculture (CA) means less work because it is not necessary to disturb the soil and weed as many times as done in conventional farming. CA suppresses weeds and reduces erosion. It improves the soil structure, ability to retain water,...

Where does one get Conservation Agriculture technical back-stopping?
From Local area extension staff in areas where CA is being or has been implemented, and (ii) ACT head office or its specific country and sub-regional offices across Africa.

Conservation Agriculture Communities of Practice General Terms And Conditions
The African Conservation Tillage Network approaches promotion of Conservation Agriculture in Africa through Conservation Agriculture Communities of Practice (CA-CoP). The approach creates an opportunity to forge agenda towards having conservation...

Governance Structure
ACT governance structure is designed to promote transparency, accountability, legitimacy and facilitate collaboration with members and consultation with stakeholders and to ensure the effective operations of the organization. The ultimate...

Networking and Partnership
ACT embraces principal of mutual collaboration, partnership and sharing of information on Conservation Agriculture. ACT stimulates and facilitates coalition building and partnerships on and about CA and SAM development and promotion across sector,...

Awareness Creation & Advocacy
ACT proactively engages in the building of political will and activity support for CA at various levels. At community/village level ACT targets decentralized systems, traditional and civic leaderships, local schools, farmer organizations, local...

Goals & Objectives
ACT's objectives include the following: To update, broaden and make more active the ACT membership and farmer networks To capture, synthesize and bank CA knowledge and disseminate/share widely with stakeholders To emphasize on building-up local...