Agroecology for Europe
“Agroecology involves the transition to a model of integration, management and planning, over time, of a sustainable territory. This requires the development of a political framework that integrates each one of the needs and particularities of all the actors and scenarios, a real challenge that SILVOPAST Group, together with the other partners of the AE4EU …
Meet our partner – Universidade De Santiago De Compostela (USC)Read More
Supporting agroecological transformation of agriculture and food systems in Europe In spring 2022, after consulting a range of agroecology farmer representative organisations, AE4EU initiated a process of co-creating an overarching network of agroecological networks in Europe. When we say ‘agroecological networks’ this includes initiatives around, e.g., organic farming and community-supported agriculture. This overarching network is …
‘Improving eco-schemes in the light of agroecology’ On the 25th of June 2021, the EU finalised its negotiations for the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) that is set to come into power on the 1 January 2023 and run until 2027. While this CAP is being championed by its creators as a radical new framework …
Agroecology (AE) which is based on an integration of scientific discipline, agricultural practices, and social movement (Wezel et al. 2009) represents a collective-action mode for challenging and contrasting the dominant agri-food regime and creating more sustainable alternatives (Levidow et al., 2014). Nevertheless, AE is also adopted by actors who promote conventional agriculture and for this …
Within AE4EU existing public and private funding schemes across Europe are assessed, compared and used as a basis to co-design future funding schemes. One of the challenges of this work is to ascertain how much public money is spent on agroecology in every country in Europe. For this, the AE4EU team adopted a twin-track approach: top-down, looks at funded …
Funding agroecology – Analysing existing funding and design of future schemesRead More
Facilitating 3 living labs in 3 different countries – The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Italy Task 4.2 ‘Living Labs (LLs) for co-development and co-learning’ is setting up and facilitating 3 living labs in 3 countries (NL, UK, IT) to develop context-based and site-specific solutions to the central question “which mechanisms will strength the agroecological research …
Living Labs (LLs) for co-development and co-learningRead More
Agroecology in Europe A certain development of agroecology and its different facets in Europe can be stated (Nicot et al., 2018; Wezel et al., 2018). Nevertheless, it currently remains too limited so as to allow a successful transition to sustainable agriculture and food systems, characterized by increased biodiversity, resource-conserving and climate resilient production and food …
Mapping agroecology in Europe: a necessary step to foster its developmentRead More
An international and non-profit organisation Agroecology Europe is an international non-profit organisation and is registered in Belgium. It aims to analyse, design, develop and promote the transition towards agroecology-based farming and food systems in Europe and throughout the world. It intends to place agroecology high on the European agenda of sustainable development of farming and food …
Introducing our project partner: Agroecology EuropeRead More
CREA, the Consiglio per la Ricerca e l’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria is the most important Italian Institution devoted to research and innovation in the Agri-Food. Sector. It is operating under the supervision of the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, in the field of agriculture, environment, agro-industry, food, fisheries and forestry, economy, with a unique multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach. CREA …
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