The Ecological Organic Agriculture Initiative (EOA-I) has a mission to promote ecologically sound strategies and practices among diverse stakeholders in production, processing, marketing and policy making to safeguard the environment, improve livelihoods, alleviate poverty and guarantee food security. The overall goal of the initiative is to mainstream Ecological Organic Agriculture into national agricultural production systems by 2025 in order to improve agricultural productivity, food security, access to markets and sustainable development in Africa.
The Initiative was first systematically run in 2012 on a pilot basis in six African countries (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zambia and Nigeria) through the support of the Swedish Society for Nature and Conservation (SSNC) with funds from SIDA. Baseline studies were also conducted in three West African Countries (Benin, Mali and Senegal) but with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).