Virtual roadshow 3: Cultivating Change – building policy from the ground up [Webinar Recording] — Soil Association

This enhanced ‘roadshow’ webinar brings together key policy experts, researchers and Innovation Hub leads to co-create a shared vision of our food and farming sector that is rooted in resilience and ecological integrity.

Producing actionable knowledge for transformative change: impacts, potentials, and challenges in transdisciplinary research, Stephen Leitheiser, Farming Systems Ecology, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands
Unlocking the transition: barriers and levers to the expansion of agroecology in the European Union, Adrien Swartebroeckx, Agriculture and Sustainability Unit, Walloon Agricultural Research Centre, Belgium
Where reality and policy meet, Innovation Hubs perspectives: a conversationAlexandra Waldman, Innovation Hub facilitator, Green Box Čarna, Organic Veg box scheme, Slovenia, Carla Barlagne, Researcher in agricultural and rural economics; Innovation Hub facilitator, Guadeloupe
Policy Frameworks and Key Policy SuggestionsDr. Guy Pe'er, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ; and German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Prof. Dr. Sebastian Lakner, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development University of Rostock, Germany

Recorded in November 2025

Food and Farming Policy in Europe: Agroecology is Key!

Across Europe the Agroecology-TRANSECT project has brought together farmers, researchers and civil society to discover how farming can work with nature rather than against it. After three years of research and collaboration we have come together to share our insights and call for policies that enable real transitions towards agroecology in Europe.