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

中非和东非潮湿的热带地区在加强非洲内外的粮食和营养安全方面大有可为。它们拥有丰富多样的农业生态区和多样化的耕作制度，是很大一部分农村人口和大量生物多样性的家园，提供重要的生态系统服务和可持续发展的潜力。不过，如果我们要挖掘这一潜力，我们就需要解决它们所面临的复杂的环境、社会和经济挑战，在某些情况下，冲突和高度脆弱性加剧了这些挑战。在这种背景下，CANALLS的目标是通过多行动者跨学科农业生态生活实验室(ALL)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，共同创造农业生态实践的最佳组合并从中受益，这些实践侧重于对生存和经济发展至关重要的作物(可可、咖啡、木薯、大米、玉米)。同时，我们与农村社区、咨询服务机构和各国政府开展坚实的多方协作，以制定一个全面的评估框架，并评估共同创建的做法的社会经济和环境绩效(考虑到权衡和协同效应)。我们利用所产生的全面证据来建设能力和分享知识(实践摘要、推广准则、政策建议)，并提供公平、包容和可持续的商业模式以及便利进入市场和增加对农业生态产品需求的服务和工具。我们的愿景是创建一个不断扩大的ALL网络，利用欧盟-非盟的合作开展跨学科研究，提供科学支持，并推动协调行动，以提供全面的解决方案，帮助塑造有利于农业生态转型的条件。

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.