Driving agroecological transitions in the humid tropics of Central and Eastern Africa through traNsdisciplinary Agroecology Living LabS (CANALLS)

中部和东部非洲潮湿的热带地区为加强非洲内外的粮食和营养安全带来了很大希望。这些地区有各种各样的农业生态区和不同的耕作制度，是大部分农村人口和多种多样的生物的家园，提供了至关重要的生态系统服务和可持续发展的潜力。然而，如果我们要挖掘这一潜力，我们就需要应对他们面临的复杂的环境、社会和经济挑战，而这些挑战有时又因冲突和高度脆弱性而加剧。在这种情况下，CANALLS旨在通过多行为体跨学科农业生态生活实验室（ALLs）推动中非和东非潮湿热带地区的农业生态转型。我们从刚果民主共和国、布隆迪、喀麦隆和卢旺达的8个ALL开始，与20，000多名农民和价值链参与者合作，共同创造并受益于农业生态实践的最佳组合，重点关注对生存和经济发展至关重要的作物（可可、咖啡、木薯、水稻、玉米）。与此同时，我们与农村社区、咨询服务机构和政府开展了坚实的多方合作，以制定一个全面的评估框架，并评估共同创建的实践的社会经济和环境绩效（考虑权衡和协同作用）。我们利用产生的综合证据来建设能力和分享知识（实践摘要、复制指南、政策建议），并提供公平、包容和可持续的商业模式，沿着服务和工具，以促进市场准入和增加对农业生态产品的需求。我们的愿景是建立一个不断增长的农业生态学联盟网络，利用欧盟-非盟合作开展跨学科研究，提供科学支持，并推动协调行动，提供整体解决方案，帮助塑造农业生态转型的有利条件。

The humid tropics of Central and Eastern Africa hold much promise for enhancing food and nutritional security within and beyond Africa. With a rich variety of agroecological zones and diverse farming systems, they are home for a great part of the rural population and a large diversity of living organisms, offering vital ecosystem services and potential for sustainable development. Still, if we are to tap into this potential, we need to address the complex environmental, social and economic challenges they face, which in cases are exacerbated by conflict and high vulnerability. In this context, CANALLS aims to drive agroecological transitions in the humid tropics of Central and Eastern Africa via multi-actor transdisciplinary Agroecology Living Labs(ALLs). We start with 8 ALLsin DRC, Burundi, Cameroon and Rwanda, working alongside and enabling over 20,000 farmers and value chain actors to co-create and benefit from optimal combinations of agroecological practices focusing on crops that are vital for subsistence and economic development (cocoa, coffee, cassava, rice, maize). In parallel, we engage in solid multi-actor collaboration with rural communities, advisory services and governments to develop a holistic assessment framework and evaluate the socio-economic and environmental performance of the co-created practices (accounting for trade-offs and synergies). We use the comprehensive evidence generated to build capacity and share knowledge (practice abstracts, replication guidelines, policy recommendations) as well as to deliver fair, inclusive and sustainable business models along with services and tools for facilitating access to markets and enhancing demand for agroecological products. Our vision is to create a growing network of ALLs that leverages EU-AU cooperation to conduct transdisciplinary research, offer scientific support and drive coordinated action for delivering holistic solutions that help shape enabling conditions for agroecological transitions.