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Funding agroecology – Analysing existing funding and design of future schemes
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 …
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Living Labs (LLs) for co-development and co-learning
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 …
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Mapping agroecology in Europe: a necessary step to foster its development
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 …
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Introducing our project partner: Agroecology Europe
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 …
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Meet CREA – Council for Agricultural Research and Economics
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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Research in agroecology in Europe – Fill out our survey
In the framework of AE4EU (https://www.ae4eu.eu/), a European CSA (Coordination and Support Action) project which aims to build a European network on agroecology to accelerate the transition towards sustainable agriculture and food systems, we are aiming to understand how “agroecology” is understood and implemented by researchers involved in agroecology in Europe. For this reason, we have …
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Meet ISARA, coordinator of AE4EU
Created in 1968 in Lyon (France), ISARA is an Engineering School for agricultural, food and environmental sciences that offers professional engineering programme (MSc degree) and master programmes, and carries out research and extension. The Faculty emphasizes the thrill of scientific investigation through hands-on work, with an excellence on Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. ISARA is …
Zoom on our AE4EU partner Eco Ruralis
Eco Ruralis is a national association of small-scale agroecological food producers, peasants and people working in rural areas from Romania. Established in 2009, Eco Ruralis is representing the needs, interests and rights of more than 17.000 members across the country and is aiming at promoting and developing peasant agriculture as an ideal model of agriculture, …
A Hub for Agroecology
An exchange and knowledge Hub for agroecology Learning, sharing, participation and co-creation of knowledge are well identified principles of agroecology. In THE Agroecology for Europe project, we aim to develop an exchange hub as virtual space of interchange among agroecology stakeholders. We are aiming of co-developing it with partners and stakeholders in order to ensure …
Be part of the movement
Participate in our survey on public and private funding Public and private funding schemes are key to enable the development of agroecology. To learn more about existing funding of agroecology, in the AE4EU project, the team at Coventry University (UK), have adopted a dual approach towards the mapping of public funding for agroecology in Europe: …
3rd Agroecology Europe forum – 17-19 November 2021 – Barcelona
To support exchange, reflection and bottom-up contributions, Agroecology Europe (AEEU) organises the third Agroecology Europe Forum together with local farmers, researchers, civic society and non-governmental organisations. Following the two first successful editions of the Forum in 2017 in Lyon (France) and in 2019 in Heraklion (Greece), the third edition in Barcelona (Spain) will address the …
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Agroecology, Europe’s new challenge
First press release of AE4EU AE4EU: Building a European network on agroecology to accelerate the transition towards sustainable agriculture and food systems. “Europe is now at a turning point regarding the future of European agriculture. Agroecology is a key concept for embracing practice, research, innovation, and education, and being essential to transform our agricultural and …
