About the EWG
The Ecoagriculture Working Group (EWG) is comprised of faculty, staff and students from diverse academic units at Cornell University. The EWG was catalized by interest and controversy which stemmed from the publication, in 2003, of Ecoagriculture: Strategies to Feed the World and Save Wild Biodiversity, by Jeffrey Mc Neely and Sara 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 Ecagriculture 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 objetives. In concert with Ecoagriculture Partners, EWG spearheaded the research and consultations that lead to the Framework for Measuring the Performance of Ecoagriculture Landscapes and the Landscape Measures Resource Center (LMRC).
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