This Guide for the evaluation of agroecology offers an approach and methodological tools to assess the effects of agroecological practices and systems on the agro-environmental and socio-economic performance of agriculture and on the other hand, the conditions for the development of agroecology. 

It aims to help development actors to better design their projects, programs and public policies in favor of agroecology, to facilitate the creation of benchmarks (performance and development conditions) and to support farmers so that they can better assess the results of their practices and thus have a decision-making aid.

This guide has three parts. The first presents the general approaches to ad hoc evaluation and monitoring-evaluation. The second consists of evaluation sheets relating either to the elements on which agroecology is likely to have effects in the agro-environmental and socio-economic fields, or to the conditions for its development. The third part, finally, offers methodological complements in the form of tool sheets.

This book is the result of collaboration between teams from GTAE (Agrisud International, AVSF, Cari and Gret), AgroParisTech, Cirad, IRD and the Institut Agro Montpellier.