Agroecology offers a holistic pathway to enhance food security and nutrition across Africa by addressing agricultural production, food system transformation, and resilience building to climate change shocks. One of its characteristics is its capacity to ensure food security for smallholder farmers and poverty alleviation. 

Agroecology is fundamentally different from other approaches to sustainable development. It is based on bottom-up and territorial processes, helping to deliver contextualized solutions to local problems.