Madagascar country report on Measuring Agroecology and its Performance (MAP). TAPE application in the context of the Global Programme “Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security” (ProSoil)

The Measuring Agroecology and its Performance (MAP) project is a collaboration to generate evidence of how agroecology can contribute to societal goals. The project assessed the performance of agroecology in three of the six districts of the Boeny region in Madagascar (Mahajanga II, Ambatoboeny, Mitsinjo), which have been part of the GIZ global project, Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security (ProSoil), since 2018–2019. Analysts applied Tools for Agroecology Performance Evaluation (TAPE), as well as the Characterization of Agroecological Transition (CAET) on 102 farms that participated in the global project, and on 98 non-participating farms as a control group.

Overall, CAET scores indicated participating and non-participating groups had few significant differences. For some elements of agroecology, such as diversity, synergies, co-creation and sharing of knowledge, participating farms showed a positive trend. The number of farms below the poverty line, crop incomes and non-agricultural incomes were not significantly different between the two groups, while livestock income was higher in the participating group. Strong correlations were observed between crop incomes and the diversity score in both groups, and global scores for soil health were the same for both groups. On environmental and social performance, participating farms recorded higher livestock diversity and higher women’s empowerment, respectively. Dietary diversity, pesticide use and the percentage of children working in agriculture were the same, or nearly the same, in both groups.

In all, the ProSoil project had a slight impact on the agroecology level and performance of farms. Nevertheless, CAET scores were positively correlated with different economic, environmental and social indicators, providing evidence for decision makers to sustain agroecology scaling-out and scaling-up for food security.

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