The Ecoagriculture Working Group (EWG) is comprised of a diverse team of faculty, staff and students at Cornell University. The EWG was catalyzed by interest and controversy which stemmed from the publication, in 2003, of Ecoagriculture: Strategies for feeding the world and saving wild biodiversity, by J. McNeely and S. Scherr (Island Press).  This lead, in 2004, to USAID's SANREM program contracting Cornell University to assess the scientific basis for the concept. The EWG formed to conduct an Assessment of the Scientific Foundations for Ecoagriculture. Members of the group presented findings from the Assessment at the First Ecoagriculture Conference and Practitioner’s Fair later that year in Nairobi, Kenya. 

Participants at the Nairobi conference called for the development of a protocol that would unite different disciplines, sectors, and localities in assessing whether landscapes were achieving ecoagriculture objectives. In concert with Ecoagriculture Partners, the EWG spearheaded the research and deliberative processes that lead to the creation of the Framework for Measuring the Performance of Ecoagriculture Landscapes. 

Presently the EWG is leading an international effort to create a Landscape Measures Resource Center (LMRC).   Building on the `Framework’, the LMRC will provide concepts and tools that professionals in agriculture and natural resources, biodiversity conservation, and rural development can use with local communities to assess whether landscapes are `moving in the right direction’ with respect to goals for conservation, food production and livelihood support. The Resource Center also will provide tools for assessing the status of institutional conditions that support, or could potentially support, the integration of ecoagricultural objectives and activity. The EWG anticipates that improving capacities to measure ecoagricultural performance will lead to better management.

Presently the EWG is conducting a credit-bearing, graduate level seminar.