Agroecology can serve as a pivotal strategy to achieve a number of crucial EU policy objectives, including reverting biodiversity collapse, mitigating and adapting to climate change, and reducing pesticide use. Together with 25 other organisations, we outline how to bring agroecological principles into policies governing EU food systems.
This policy paper puts forward a proposal to mainstream agroecology into the policies governing EU food systems. It builds on the consensual vision of a coalition of EU civil society, farmers and scientific organizations to use the FAO ‘10 Elements of Agroecology’ and ‘13 Agroecological Principles’ as a framework to develop the appropriate instruments and targets for EU policies.