Executive Summary The Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development - Farming Systems Evolution project was carried out from February 2002 to November 2005 in collaboration with national organizations under the leadership of the Programme for Sustainable Agriculture on Sloping Lands in Central America (PASOLAC) in Honduras, the Institute of Rural Economics (IER) in Mali, and Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) in the Philippines. The project aimed to strengthen the capacity of government and non-government stakeholders to improve policies and institutions to achieve sustainable agriculture and rural development (SARD). The project studied how and why farming systems, one per country in Honduras, Mali and the Philippines, have evolved over the long term and are expected to change in the future.