Biodiversity monitoring in agricultural landscapes remains a major challenge for European policy implementation. Farmlands are spatially extensive and can be difficult to access, resulting in higher coordination costs and low participation in monitoring activities.

Agroecological food production in mountain regions, particularly within protected areas, offers specific values but also faces challenges such as production scale and the dispersed distribution. Mountain agroecological food products cannot compete in terms of quantity or price, but rather need to stand in terms of quality and social and ecological values.

Cultural barriers to agroecology are transversal and ubiquitous in Europe, frequently taking the shape of disregard, lack of pride or even shame, for traditional and family farming and food practices. Particularly in remote, mountainous and southern rural areas, making agroecology attractive to the general public and particularly to the youth remains a challenge.

Where are the women farmers? The gendered effects of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and how policies are not working to address the political barriers.

This webinar explores how to create supportive frameworks for agroecology locally, nationally and across the EU.

On March 29 2023, Bertrand Dumont, Agroecology-TRANSECT coordinator, delivered a talk entitled 'How animal science can support the role of animals in delivering benefits to society' at the annual meeting of the British Society of Animal Science. He analysed how contrasting options for sustainable animal production and feed-use deliver a number of benefits to society, and on cropland production, by providing manure. 

[Report] From 2-6 September 2024, X Congresso Internacional de Agroecologia took place in Viseu, Portugal, bringing together people from around the world to explore how agroecology can enable flourishing resilient and sustainable food systems.