Informed decisions on ‘agricultural transformation’, the rapidly changing diversity of agricultural holdings, could play a decisive role in society’s response to several global challenges, including food security and environmental sustainability. Improved stakeholder access to information on the social, economic and environmental impacts of transformations and likely future trends is a key requirement for promoting evidence-based decision making in related policy formulation and planning. The World Agricultural Watch (WAW) has recently been proposed as a platform for continuous global monitoring of agricultural transformation. This paper presents its methodological framework - i.e. an integrated set of monitoring activities and associated methods which would provide key information that stakeholders could use to influence future outcomes of transformations