ACT's objectives include the following:

• To update, broaden and make more active the ACT membership and farmer networks
• To capture, synthesize and bank CA knowledge and disseminate/share widely with stakeholders
• To emphasize on building-up local human capital through empowering farmers in own on-farm experimentation, monitoring, evaluation and learning
• To lobby governments, institutions and donor support for Conservation Agriculture
• 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 .
• To network and assist farmers with CA incentive schemes, cost sharing of risks and access to CA inputs/equipment, and
• To make visible and strike supportive links of CA to niche sectors (energy and hydropower watershed management, environment, and climate change)