Stories
12 March 2026
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.
5 March 2026
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.
26 February 2026
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.
25 February 2026
Two new coordinators will work across southern and western England to strengthen grassroots seed networks — governance infrastructure for food systems that roots sovereignty in regional practice and Indigenous knowledge.
18 February 2026
A coalition webinar ahead of UNCCD COP17 reframes pastoralism as regenerative governance — not degradation driver. The challenge: translating centuries of mobile land stewardship into policy that recognizes rights to territory and movement, not just plots.
6 February 2026
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.
30 January 2026
A 3.5-year project in Mozambique embedded agroforestry systems into public institutions and rural communities — showing how regenerative agriculture becomes a form of governance when it restructures land use, diet, and policy in tandem.
15 January 2026
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.
23 December 2025
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.