Campaigns
Change at the scale Europe needs doesn’t come from one paper or one meeting. It comes from sustained, coordinated action with farmers, researchers, civil society, and policymakers pushing in the same direction.
EARA’s campaigns are how we translate our policy positions into political reality. Each campaign is built around a concrete ask, a coalition of aligned actors, and the evidence that farmers themselves have generated on the ground.
Active campaigns
Reform the CAP post-2027: Pay farmers for performance, not compliance
The negotiation of the next Common Agricultural Policy and the National and Regional Partnership Plans are the most consequential agricultural policies decisions Europe will make this decade. EARA is campaigning for a structural shift: away from decoupled direct payments and prescriptive practice-based schemes, towards simple, fair, hectare-based payments linked to measurable agroecosystem health performance.
Our proposal is detailed, technically grounded, and politically feasible. It is backed by pioneering farmers from across the EU and by an emerging coalition of landowner organisations, business networks, and civil society partners.
The ask is clear: put regenerating forms of agriculture at the heart of the next MFF, NRPP and CAP.
Read our CAP Policy Paper to find out more.
Recognise farmers as Europe’s most important climate actors
Farmers manage 40% of Europe’s land surface. Yet agricultural governance continues to treat them as problems to be regulated rather than agents to be empowered. EARA’s Regenerating Europe Tour is building the political constituency to change that, visiting farming communities across the continent, gathering evidence, and forging the alliances that will make a farmer-centric CAP possible.
The Tour is also generating something policy papers cannot: a visible, European-scale demonstration that regenerative agriculture is not a niche. It is the direction of travel for the most innovative, productive, and ecologically serious farmers in every Member State.
Join us and earn more about the Regenerating Europe Tour
Build the evidence base for performance-based payments
Performance-based CAP payments require performance data. EARA’s farmer-led research programme is generating exactly that, comparing the agronomic and ecological performance of pioneering regenerative farmers against regional averages, across 14 countries and multiple farm types.
The first phase of results are striking: pioneers achieve on average 33% higher full productivity, with dramatically lower synthetic inputs and stronger ecological outcomes. This evidence is not just academic. It is the foundation on which the political case for a reformed CAP is built.
→ [Read the Farmer-Led Research on Europe’s Full Productivity]
→ [Read the Regen Compass]