In cooperation with Agroecology Europe, we held the CLAS 1st International Conference on the 12th of September on « Crossed Perspectives: Agroecology Insights from Europe and Chile ». Keynote speakers, Alexander Wezel (ISARA) and Andres Muñoz-Sáez (University of Chile), addressed agroecology from two distinct angles, European and Chilean ones, in presence of 80 attendees.
The development of a partnership on agroecology at European level underlines how agroecology is increasingly recognized as a relevant option to address actual challenges of our food production and systems. Both presentations highlighted the difference regarding the development and manifestation of agroecology depending on the area considered.
During this conference insights into agroecology on two different parts of the world were shared:
- Agroecology in Chile and its future with the presentation of the recent educational programs in agroecology, as well as the goals of the Chilean agroecological society. The talk also tackled the most recent government efforts on scaling up agroecological family farming systems. These perspectives provided an insight into the future of agroecology at a national level.
- Agroecology in Europe, with an overview about European initiatives, cases, examples, and programmes relating to agroecology in Practice, Science, Movement, Living Labs, and Education and Training, while putting into light the barriers and perspectives for the future development of agroecology, taking into account some recent development in policy.
This presentation was based on the mapping of agroecology in Europe achieved in 33 countries within the AE4EU project.
We are pleased to share with you
- the conference “Crossed Perspectives: Agroecology Insights from Europe and Chile” with Alexander Wezel, Research Director of Isara and Andrés Muñoz-Sáez from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Chile
- and a special ‘ Crossed Interview’ by Alexander Wezel and Andrés Muñoz-Sáez