EVOLVE TO AGROECOLOGY

Today, the agricultural and food system as a whole is facing increasingly difficult challenges of various kinds. Climate change already generates uncertainties regarding harvests and requires farms to adapt on a daily basis. From an ecological standpoint, natural resources are gradually being depleted, water quality is deteriorating, biodiversity lossis increasingly visible, environmental imbalances are worsening, and energy consumption makes farming more expensive.

On an agronomic level, soils are degrading due in particular to stronger erosion and leaching. At the farming scale, the agricultural population has been declining for decades, farmland is becoming concentrated, and many sectors face shrinking income. Finally, on a global scale, social inequalities are more pronounced and famine situations are recurrent in some areas, despite sufficient mass production: today, 850 million people suffer from hunger, more than half of whom are farmers in rural areas.

It is within this rather bleak context that agroecology positions itself as a new agricultural paradigm capable of providing satisfactory answers in agricultural, environmental, social, economic, and territorial aspects. How is it defined? What are its ambitions? What are its principles? How is it structured? At the farm level, how can one outline an action plan made up of virtuous practices? How can a farm build its agroecological pathway? These are the questions this training aims to answer.