• It can be used to evaluate individual projects/initiatives, or entire portfolios of projects.
• It can also be used to guide agroecological projects or proposal development by giving examples of actions that contribute to the implementation of each of the 13 principles.
• lt will be accessible to any institution wishing to use it to assess their own projects / portfolios. Any donor, investor or implementer can upload their investment information.

• .The tool is based on the widely-used open source framework Laravel, a code written specifically for this tool will be made available via a permissive open license on GitHub. Sophisticated security measures are in place to safeguard data integrity.
• While the tool is open source, no institution-level data will be available outside of the institution that entered the data without explicit and formal consent by the institution itself through an authorized officer.
• Reports based on aggregate analysis will be published regularly to track investment trends in agroecology.

The online tool was developed by Statistics for Sustainable Development (Stats4SD) . The innovative methodological framework used, rooted in an initial proposal by the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, has been developed by a community of practice on tracking finance flows to agroecology, composed of the following organisations: Agroecology Fund, Asian Farmers' Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA), Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya, Biovision Foundation, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, CIDSE, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribean (ECLAC), European Commission, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Statistics for Sustainable Development (Stats4SD), Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Volontary Services Organization (VSO).

The framework's development was subsequently spearheaded by the Finance and Investment Working Group of the Agroecology Coalition, uniting a diverse cohort of 20 experts from various organizations and backgrounds, encompassing researchers, donors, and civil society stakeholders.

More details about the methodology and the way it was developed can be found in this article: Moeller, N.I., M. Geck, C.R. Anderson, C. Barahona, C. Broudic, R. Cluset, G. Henriques, F. Leippert, D. Mills, A. Minhaj, A. Mueting-van Loon, S. Piers de Raveschoot, E. Frison (2023) Measuring agroecology: Introducing a methodological framework and a community of practice approach. In Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, Vol. 11, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00042