ACT’s objectives include the following:

o        To update, broaden and make more active the ACT membership and farmer networks

o        To capture, synthesize and “bank” CA knowledge and disseminate/share widely with stakeholders

o        To emphasize on building-up local human capital through empowering farmers in own on-farm experimentation, monitoring, evaluation and learning

o        To lobby governments, institutions and donor support for Conservation Agriculture

o        To forge strategic partnerships (with NEPAD, National Governments, and  NGO’s) for interventions that will elevate farmers beyond crop productivity to diversifying to better income generation enterprises, and commercial farming

o        To network and assist farmers with CA incentive schemes, cost sharing of risks and access to CA inputs/equipment, and

o        To make visible and strike supportive links of CA to niche sectors (energy and hydropower watershed management, environment, and climate change)