Orchestrating agroecological transitions : A critical reading of the DyTAES experience in Senegal

The report is built on three main objectives:
1. to analyze the conditions that enabled the emergence and rapid rise of DyTAES within
the Senegalese agroecological landscape;
2. to identify key achievements, modes of action, as well as limitations and challenges
faced by the DyTAES–DyTAEL agroecology coalition;
3. to distill strategic lessons relevant to both national-level action and support for territorial
dynamics.
This study is grounded in two collective workshops that structured the analytical process. A first
workshop, held in August 2024, brought together a limited group of core actors and focused on
reconstructing a shared timeline of agroecology in Senegal from the 1980s onwards, alongside an
initial mapping of key stakeholders. This exercise laid a solid analytical foundation but remained
partial, as its scope and perspectives were constrained by restricted participation. A second workshop, convened in December 2025, sought to enrich, nuance, and deepen this initial analysis by
mobilizing a much broader range of experiences from across the DyTAES network, including insights from territorial dynamics within DyTAELs (departmental declinations of DyTAES). This second moment allowed for cross-validation, refinement of interpretations, and a more differentiated
reading of trajectories, tensions, and turning points. The Table 1 summarizes the methodological
approach adopted during the two workshops, while the Appendix provides lists of participants and
their institutional affiliations.
These two workshops were co-organized by CIRAD, CGIAR, ISRA BAME and Enda Pronat,
with financial support from the CIAT Multifunctional Landscapes (MFL) project, in direct support of
the DyTAES coalition. DyTAES actors and representatives of public institutions were fully involved
as contributors to the analysis, engaging in a deliberate exercise of capitalization and reflexivity.
The process was designed to support internal learning, strengthen governance and strategic coherence, and enhance the coalition’s capacity to act and position itself. At the same time, it aimed
to make the specific features of the DyTAES experience more intelligible to external partners and
to actors engaged in agroecological transitions in other national contexts.