Led by Europe’s most innovative and progressive farmers, EARA’s Regenerating Europe Tour is setting out to build aligned and cohesive leadership.

The European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture (EARA) is an independent farmer-led coordination, advocacy and collective action organisation of the movement of regenerative agriculture at the European level.
It is firmly rooted in its pioneering farming stewards from all of Europe’s diverse contexts. EARA is striving to enable the transformation of our agrifood system through accountable ecologic, economic and social regeneration beginning with the health of our living soils.
Report
This report presents the results of the first phase of EARA’s ongoing farmer-led research program, introducing a groundbreaking way to measure real-world agricultural success through the Regenerating Full Productivity (RFP) index. Developed with and for farmers, the RFP captures both agronomic and ecological performance in a single, practical tool.
Tested across 14 countries from 2021 to 2023, this first phase reveals compelling results:
+33% higher full productivity on average, with gains up to 52%
Stronger ecosystem performance, with over 25% more photosynthesis, 24% more soil cover, and 16% greater plant diversity
Yield parity with major input reduction: Regenerating farms achieved, on average, only a 2% lower yield (in kilocalories and protein), while using 61% less synthetic nitrogen fertiliser and 75% less pesticides and making 20% higher gross margin per hectare.
Regional food sovereignty: While average EU farms import over 30% of livestock feed from outside the EU, pioneering farmers achieved similar yields using feed exclusively from Europe.
This is just the beginning.
We are continuously expanding our study by adding further case studies and farmer data from across Europe, helping to build a more comprehensive understanding of regenerating forms of agriculture.
The currently published version of the study is version 1.2 of Phase 1 of the ongoing research being conducted by EARA; adaptations and extensions may be added at any time as we integrate more farmer data on a rolling - regenerating - bases. This is transparently documented in the version's supporting data archives.
Own figure based on Wang-Erlandsson et al. 2022; Persson et al. 2022; Steffen et al. 2015, Campbell et al. 2017; Kovac & Kravic 2023.
Own figure based on Wang-Erlandsson et al. 2022; Persson et al. 2022; Steffen et al. 2015, Campbell et al. 2017; Kovac & Kravic 2023.
Additionally, in regard to human and animal health, crops have greatly reduced their antioxidants, micro- and phytonutrients due to modern genetics, agricultural practices, and degraded soil health underlying health issues such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, cancers and diabetes.
Own figure based on Wang-Erlandsson et al. 2022; Persson et al. 2022; Steffen et al. 2015, Campbell et al. 2017; Kovac & Kravcik 2023.
Regenerative farmers are leading the way from degradation to regeneration all over Europe.
Watch this space as we fill it with the profiles of our Founding Farmers!
You are a regenerative Farmer?
In a time when political decisions fail to solve the ‘trade-off’ between the regeneration of ecosystems and agricultural productivity, regenerative farmers show that resilient and high quality yields are best achieved through ecosystem regeneration with various co-benefits on health and climate change mitigation. EARA serves to make the voices of farming pioneers central in relevant political discourses to guide stakeholders’ decision-making in the EU member states as well as in EU institutions towards the urgently needed regenerative transformation of our agri-food system in Europe and beyond.
Joint Position Paper on the Soil Health Law
The ecosystem EARA strives to grow around its regenerating farmers is inclusive of everyone in the regenerative movement who is deeply engaged in the genuine regeneration of our EU agri-food system and beyond: Farmers, scientists, policy-makers, NGOs, individual pioneers from the food industry and many many more. If you want to join our Alliance and support our ecosystem, political advocacy and agitation please reach out.
EARA’s Operational Team is driven by the needs, knowledge and experience of our community of regenerative farmers. They act as coordinators and facilitators of our farmer-led Alliance.
Farmer and Tour Stakeholder Management Assistance and Reachout