The session focuses on redesigning agriculture and food systems towards greater resilience, sustainability and diversity. It will more particularly highlight the potential of agroecological approaches as “nature-based solutions” to transform agricultural and food systems worldwide in order to deliver on four key challenges: biodiversity conservation; adaptation to, and mitigation of, climate change; food security, and democratic food system governance.
Agroecology is an innovation pathway that makes the best use of ecological processes to drastically reduce the recourse to external/synthetic inputs in farming system. It encourages co-innovation between farmers and researchers, rebuilds soil health, reduces GHG emissions, sequestrates carbon and provides for diversified, healthy diets.
The session will present concrete experiences of agroecological approaches and examples of policies to support the agroecological transformation.
