European association advancing agroecology through transdisciplinary research, farmer-to-farmer knowledge exchange, and policy engagement across the EU.
The Brussels-based network coordinating Europe's agroecological transition is hiring operations capacity — a quiet signal of organizational maturity in a movement linking farmers, researchers, and activists across borders.
The Brussels-based network — 200 members spanning farmers, academics, and activists — is hiring a communications officer to strengthen its work placing agroecological transition on Europe's governance agenda.
A five-year mapping project documents hundreds of agroecological initiatives across Europe — from farming practices to living labs — showing how food system transformation happens through distributed experimentation rather than top-down policy.
Belgian-Welsh farmer Ann Owen argues that regenerative agriculture serves corporate interests while agroecology builds practitioner power. The distinction matters: one treats farming as optimization, the other as transformative practice rooted in social and ecological balance.
As the EU-Mercosur trade agreement advances despite farmer protests, Agroecology Europe argues both continents must accelerate agroecological policy — not as alternative, but as systemic governance strategy for food, climate, and rural resilience.
As political systems retreat from environmental pledges, Europe's agroecology network grows to 450+ youth members and convenes gatherings that bridge science, practice, and policy — testing governance models that treat food systems as living democratic experiments.