ACT’s mission is to promote and facilitate information and knowledge exchange and partnerships to enhance support for the adaptation and adoption of conservaion agriculture principles and practices in Africa. With this Mission, ACT expects to contribute to enhance up scaling of sustainable land and water management practices – addressing both agricultural productivity and environmental/biodiversity resilience objectives. Ultimately, the results are expected to positively impact on food security and improved rural livelihood.
This Mission, refined during 2006 from the initial mandate streamlines and focuses the core functions of ACT into CA KNOWLEDGE and INFORMATION MANAGEMENT (i.e. the generation, processing, storage and dissemination of lessons and knowledge on CA within the broader context of sustainable land and water management). The revision has also been with a view to ensure ACT remained dynamically responsive to members and stakeholder needs and issues on conservation agriculture, specifically, and natural resource management, in general.