Power to Change

Project Objectives

This project aimed to assess the impact of small-scale agroecological businesses and food producing enterprises in England. The Project had 3 key objectives: 

1. To trial/pilot the toolkit that CAWR developed with RFT as part of the Just Growth project (2015-16). The toolkit was trialled by 5 organisations, with CAWR leading and overseeing the trial from May-October 2017. 

2. To hold a dissemination event to share the results of the toolkit piloting (that took place throughout the summer of 2017) and learning with the wider agroecological farming community 

3. To write an options paper (i.e. report, link below) setting out how best the toolkit could be shared and used by other organisations who wish to better understand their impact and performance.

Read more on the project website.

Research Impact

Agroecological farming practice is based on the idea that an individual farm should be viewed and managed as an ecosystem in its own right. That means all the activities and interactions on the farm and between the farm and its environment (both social and environmental) must be in balance. Food produced agroecologically has multiple social and environmental impacts. There is however little data available publicly to evidence these impacts. The CAWR toolkit hopes to address that by creating a template for measuring impact that is specifically designed to capture the multiple impacts of these enterprises. By developing the toolkit in close collaboration with actual food enterprises it aims to be easy for enterprises to use whilst creating an important evidence base for social investors and policy makers. The hope is that over time more and more enterprises will use it as a way of monitoring and improving what they do and that a growing database will build the case for the importance of agroecology in creating a food system in which the three pillars of sustainability (economy, environment and society) are in balance.

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