An evidence-grounded advisor that ranks agroecological practices for a specific place in Ethiopia and shows the field studies behind every recommendation.
Open the AdvisorAgroEcoAdvisor reads the agro-ecological context under a map pin (rainfall, temperature, altitude, slope, soil and growing period from a 250 m geospatial stack). It ranks practices with a model trained on thousands of paired with/without field observations from Ethiopian trials, and checks each one against the effects measured in published studies from similar areas. The retrieval layer then explains each recommendation with passages from those studies.
For each practice, the strongest evidence for your location leads and the other sources support it. The label on each result tells you which one leads.
The field-trial model leads when its confidence is medium or high and it has trials from your zone. The headline is the model estimate for your area.
Where the model has little local data, the effect measured in published field studies leads, taken from the closest match: your zone, a similar area or similar rainfall.
Practices described in guidance or practice records, without a measured effect for your objective, are listed with their sources and never with a number.
If the model and the studies point in opposite directions or differ widely, the advisor shows the range instead of one number and says so.
This is a ranking tool, not a yield forecaster. Each result shows how strong its evidence is, so trust the order of practices more than the exact percentages.
well supported by field trials in settings like yours
reasonable evidence; treat the order as the signal
a starting point, not a forecast; the advisor says so plainly
Evidence for Resilient Agriculture (ERA): the Ethiopia subset of paired field observations, with the Adimassu et al. climate-smart agriculture studies. The effect of each study is computed from the same dataset.
WorldClim climate, SoilGrids soil, Copernicus elevation and slope, ESA WorldCover land cover, FAO growing-period data, and the Ethiopian agro-ecological belts.
GARDIAN / CGSpace implementation guidance (CGIAR knowledge products) for the how-to layer.
WOCAT Global SLM Database practice records (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), for cross-country context in a later release.
ERA field data, SoilGrids and ESA WorldCover are used under CC BY 4.0. WorldClim is used for non-commercial research with attribution. Copernicus DEM: © DLR and Airbus, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA. WOCAT records are CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Guidance documents keep the licence stated on each one. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Recordings are transcribed in memory and are not stored; only their size is logged. Amharic and Afaan Oromoo voice runs on the AgroEcoAdvisor server. Where server speech is not available, your browser's speech service is used, and it may send audio to the browser vendor.
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (2026). AgroEcoAdvisor: AI-Powered Agroecology+ Solutions, version validation-2026-11.
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