Call for Training Program Organizer South of Europe

EIT Food is Europe’s leading food innovation initiative working to make the food system more sustainable, healthy and trusted. We work with over 100 of Europe’s leading businesses, universities and research centers to help them create this change. Our activities cover the entire food chain from farm production to consumer eating habits to waste treatment, and we focus on 4 main areas: innovation, education, consumer engagement and entrepreneurship.

As part of its mission to make food systems healthier and more sustainable, EIT Food has created the Regenerative Agriculture Program, one of whose main aims is to help farmers in Southern Europe learn about and transition to more sustainable methods of agriculture. We have focused on the Mediterranean because farmers in this region have been disproportionately hurt by climate change and conventional agricultural practices and are suffering from impoverished soils, water scarcity, erosion, lack of biodiversity and lower yields. These environmental problems have been aggravated by the high cost of agriculture inputs, low food prices and increased debt, all of which have left farmers struggling for their financial survival.

To revert these trends and help bring about the Regenerative Agriculture Program in Europe, we are focusing our efforts in three key areas:

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Supporting European farmers to transition to regenerative/conservative agriculture. EIT Food offers innovative farmers in Southern Europe a comprehensive training and support program that helps them learn about and then apply the principles of regenerative agriculture on their farms.

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Monitoring ecosystem improvements. We are measuring a series of parameters on the farms in our program to better understand the impact of farming practices on soil health, biodiversity and farmer profitability.

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Helping the consumer to understand the health and environmental benefits of regenerative agriculture. Through pioneering research and powerful storytelling, we are raising awareness about the connection between regenerative agriculture, soil health and human health.

To carry out the farmer training activity we are looking for one or several contractors to organize our training sessions in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Turkey.