Ecoagriculture Partners, a partnership announced during the World Summit on Sustainable Development, organized an International Ecoagriculture Conference and Practitioners’ Fair, which convened from 27 September to 1 October 2004 in Nairobi, Kenya.

The meeting brought together over 200 innovators in ecoagriculture from diverse sectors. Participants reviewed evidence of the social, cultural, economic, environmental, institutional, technical, geographic and political characteristics of successful ecoagriculture initiatives, shared experiences, built new partnerships, and elaborated a number of specific recommendations for action to further the concepts and tools needed to implement ecoagriculture. They also developed the Nairobi Declaration on Ecoagriculture, which underscores the need for an ecoagriculture framework that seeks to simultaneously achieve improved livelihoods, biodiversity conservation and sustainable production at a landscape scale. The Declaration also calls on policymakers at the local, national, regional and global levels to: encourage multistakeholder participation and formation of strategic alliances for planning and implementing ecoagriculture; incorporate the wide range of grassroots and rural community innovations that simultaneously enhance productivity, livelihoods and ecosystem services; and advocate policies and actions that support the integration of food production with biodiversity, among others. The Sustainable Developments report of this meeting.