Europe’s security, competitiveness and global leadership depend on a decisive shift towards regenerating forms of agriculture. Without secure access to food and water, there is no security. Without primary resource resilience, competitiveness can only be theoretical. Without innovation, global leadership cannot be sustained. As the next Multi-annual Financial Framework is created, regenerating forms of agriculture must be prioritised in an integrated manner.
Joint Letter to Christoph Hansen by EARA, ELO and OP2B
Published
The response is jointly written by European Landowners’ Organisation (ELO) and One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B).
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