What agricultural policies do people want?

In Switzerland animal welfare is perceived as most important. We find differences between the Swiss language regions.

New paper in Food Policy led by Nadja El Benni with Jeanine Ammann, J. Irek & G. Mack

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Envie de découvrir l'élevage laitier du Massif central ? Les membres du projet Coccinelle 👉 projet-coccinelle.hub.inrae.fr vous invitent à Marcenat pour découvrir la ferme expérimentale qui est au cœur de nos travaux. En cas d'affluence les personnes qui ont réservé seront prioritaires

Agroecology has a lot to say on International #BiodiversityDay . Agriculture and #agroecology have a central role in preserving natural and cultivated #biodiversity . Find out how #agriculture works #fornature in our newest factsheet!
🕊🌾🐍🦔🌼🐝🌳🐟

agroecology-europe.org/factsheets/

Very interesting paper on the role of social justice to preserve traditional knowledge for nature conservation
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The vote for the EU Parliament is a vote for the future. Our demands for it:
✅ Greater support for sustainable agriculture and agroecology
✅ Quicker transition to sustainable food systems
✅ Effective laws to protect the nature and waters of Europe
GoodFoodGoodFarming #VoteFutureEU

Happy #WorldBeeDay !🐝

If you see a bee, would you know it is one?

You might see them less, though: 1 in 3 bee, butterfly and hoverfly species is in decline.

With the #EUPollinators Initiative, we want to reverse this development: europa.eu/!6PymrM

Day 4 of Agroecology-TRANSECT co-innovation workshop. Working with innovation hub facilitators on how to carry on and standardize measurements (e.g. earthworms) that will allow assessing farm 'agroecological performance' with a multicriteria assessment tool. #agroecology #evaluation

Our co-innovation week comes to an end today, with our #innovationhubs travelling back to their sites across Europe inspired and connected!

Here is the whole group at the inspiring wildblumen native wildflower seed farm with our hosts the Burri family wildblumenburri.ch/einstieg.html#

Day 3 of Agroecology-TRANSECT co-innovation workshop. We start with a collective analysis of agroecological principles from FAO, HLPE & Nyéléni declaration. When do these different sets of principles offer opportunies to have more people on board, and when are these principles exclusive?

As part of day 3 exploring barriers and levers to upscaling #agroecology , the #innovationhub facilitators have been asking what hinders some specific principles at their local level and how can this be overcome?

How would it add value to embrace them?

More media training ... short, simple, shareable films

Alexandra (from our #InnovationHub in Slovenia) in conversation with Costin (from Romania) and Julie, our communication lead from Soil Association in the UK

#coinnovation is fun as well as fruitful🎉

Busy few days for our #InnovationHubs at this co-innovation workshop, including training on making short, simple, sharable films

👏 Costin Lianu (Bio Danubius) asks Alexandra Waldmann (Green Box Čarna) how digitalisation & tech can help agriculture towards the #greentransition

Day 3 of our co-innovation workshop begins exploring that all food systems have 3 elements:
🚜Practical delivery
📑Policy frameworks
💰Socio-economic environment
With #agroecology we bring all 3 together in their complexity and understand the interdependencies.

A field trip allows the #innovationhub facilitators to visit in person the Swiss grassland mixtures project AGFF and brings to life the webinar on how diversification increases the resilience of European grassland-based systems youtu.be/dN7mEymMJIY?si…

A busy morning on day 2 of discussing the barriers to upscaling agroecology in Europe, a chance for the 11 innovation hubs across the EU to come together and exchange challenges, and discuss solutions

Day 2 of the Co-innovation workshops and our innovation hubs have been working together on their short filmmaking skills to take back to their sites and share more examples of agroecology in practice

Day 1 of Agroecology-TRANSECT co-innovation workshop. Innovation hub facilitators from 🇩🇰 🇪🇦 and 🇨🇵 share their updates and challenges to stimulate general reflections from our learning history analyses. Communication team also making a short film on the barriers & leverages encountered.

🚨new paper
How can we ‘best’ design multi-species grassland mixtures?
How can we better predict mixture performance? Practical principles from our Mini Review in Journal of Ecology

doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…
🧵for practitioners/agronomists.

Multi4More Caroline Brophy LegumeLegacy

Last chance to join our webinar on promoting local and #organic food through public food procurement. Register now: visionary-project.eu/events/visiona…

📅 7 May
⌚ 11:30 - 13h CET (10:30 - 12 UTC)

With Katrin Prager, Shadi Hashem, University of Gloucestershire

BEATLES project EU ENFASYS FOOD 2030 Networks

High yields, low nitrate leaching: The advantages of grass- #clover mixtures in ley farming are manifold. An Agroscope study now shows that their highly efficient use of available nitrogen also keeps the risk of nitrate leaching low. ETH Zürich 👇
agrarforschungschweiz.ch/en/2024/05/gra…