Led by Europe’s most innovative and progressive farmers, EARA’s Regenerating Europe Tour is setting out to build aligned and cohesive leadership.
European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture
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
Farmer-led Research on Europe’s Full Productivity
The Realities of Producing More and Better with Less - Place-based Innovation for the Good of All
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.
Own figure based on Wang-Erlandsson et al. 2022; Persson et al. 2022; Steffen et al. 2015, Campbell et al. 2017; Kovac & Kravic 2023.
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.
Joint Statement
Joint Statement on the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework, Common Agricultural Policy and Financial Instruments for European unity, security, competitiveness, health and prosperity
In a unique alliance of purpose and possibility, EARA, the European Landowners' Organization, and One Planet Business for Biodiversity OP2B have come together to urge the EU:
Put regenerating forms of agriculture at the heart of the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
As Europe navigates growing challenges around food security, competitiveness, and climate resilience, regenerative agriculture offers a promising pathway, supported by performance-based approaches, harmonised data, and financial tools that help reduce risk for farmers during the transition.
Key proposals include:
- Embedding regeneration in EU strategic funding
- Protecting agricultural budgets as investments in resilience
- Transitioning CAP to performance-based incentives
- Building EU-wide data systems to track regenerative outcomes
- Unlocking blended finance to support farmers
- Funding watershed and soil restoration at landscape scale
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 202
Joint Vision Response
Joint Response to Hansen's Agri-Food Vision by European Pioneers of Regenerating Forms of Agriculture and Food
On 6 February 2025, EARA hosted a senior AgriFood workshop as part of their Regenerating Europe Tour, in order to build common ground across pioneering farmers, businesses and civil society representatives. This common ground covered a range of topics, and forms the basis of this joint response to Commissioner Hansen’s Vision for the Future of Agriculture and Food.
Thank you for all the support we have received after publishing our joint response. If you wish to sign it, please click the button below.
Own figure based on Wang-Erlandsson et al. 2022; Persson et al. 2022; Steffen et al. 2015, Campbell et al. 2017; Kovac & Kravic 2023.
Policy Paper
Towards a farmer-centric CAP rooted in Agroecosystem Health - Facilitating the Transformation of EU Agrifood Ecosystems
We want to put farmers and agroecosystem health at the center of the next CAP. Our proposal sketches a farmer-centric and performance-based path for a CAP post 2027 that can deliver:
- structural simplification & fairness
- rapid spreading of context-specific innovation
- farm labour attractiveness
- synergistic integration of productivity & ecology
- an immense co-financing opportunity of Member States for climate change adaptation
- meaningful public reengagement with rural livelihoods, farmer well-being, local regions, landscapes and communities
- healthy and sustainable food security in Europe and beyond
- the strengthening of social cohesion and European sovereignty
- a re-rooting of the European project in the health of our European continent and its inhabitants
Own figure based on Wang-Erlandsson et al. 2022; Persson et al. 2022; Steffen et al. 2015, Campbell et al. 2017; Kovac & Kravic 2023.
Learn more about our Founding Farmers and how we work together to transform European agriculture
Reason Why
The current agri-food system is the greatest cause for the degradation of our planetary health
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.
Background
The current agri-food system is the greatest emitter of greenhouse gases by economic sectors globally.
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%
of all CO2 emitted 1990-2015 globally
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+ Billion
of our fellow human beings can not afford a healthy diet with agonizing consequences like malnutrition, diseases, hunger and starvation.
Who we are
But there is proof of hope.
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!
We are the farmers of La Junquera, an organic regenerative farm and village in the South of Spain.
We are creating a diverse and thriving landscape together with our partners (Regeneration Academy, Camp Altiplano) and bringing back life to the countryside.
We grow a variety of crops and herd cows. We work hard to restore soils, capture water and bring back biodiversity through compost, swales, ponds, keyline, minimum tillage, hedges and borders and grazing practices.
www.lajunquera.com
Regenerative agriculture is more than just a farming practice - it's a way of life deeply rooted in our Hungarian traditions. It signifies our commitment to restoring the health of our land, fostering biodiversity, and creating a sustainable food system that nourishes both people and the planet.
https://www.remenyfarm.hu/
The Pursila farm is a conventional grain farm where regenerative cultivation is practiced. The farm also has cattle and sheep for landscaping. Regenerative agriculture means nurturing and revitalizing the soil, the ecosystem and the biodiversity.
We cultivate soil, water, landscape. Farming life is our passion, producing abundant good, nutritious food by restoring soil is what we are committed to. We enjoy farming, trying our best to regenerate the land we work on, in order to leave it to future generations, better than how we got it.
I holistically graze sheep and cattle on my farm in Glenisla, Scotland for my brother who has a 1,000 ha farm in Glenshee which is transitioning to regenerative management. I have been based here all my life while I have managed farm businesses ranging from Venezuelan ranches to a Scottish soft fruit co-operative. I now also work as a Savory Accredited Professional Educator.
Kmetija Vegerila is situated at the foot of the Alps at an altitude just above 500 m in the north-western corner of Slovenia. It is a small family run farm on 14 hectares. Today we grow the grain for our poultry, the rest of land consists of marginal grasslands and traditional vigorous stock orchards to graze our livestock. We only sell locally and strive to build a local community interested in holistic regenerative agriculture.
You are a regenerative Farmer?
Evidence of the impressive outcomes produced by regenerative farmers
How we work
Regenerative farmers from several European countries, genders, ages and farm types work together
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.
What we do
Examples of our Policy Advocacy
Joint Position Paper on the Soil Health Law
EU Soil Health Law Coalition
Joint Position Paper on the Soil Health Law
EARA White Paper: Together for Regenerative Agrifood Ecosystems
Towards a farmer-centric CAP rooted in agroecosystem health
Contact us
Become a part of the transformation.
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.
Siw Fasting | Facilitation Support
Farmer and Tour Stakeholder Management Assistance and Reachout
