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Demain, une Europe agroécologique
14 × 19 cm 320 pages softback september 2021 retail price: 22 €
Xavier Poux is an agronomist at the asca research agency and an associate researcher at Iddri. His experience has led him to combine the analysis of agricultural systems and public decision making in agricultural development and environment management. He is a member of the scientific council of the Agriculture, Biodiversity and Public Action research program at the Environment Ministry.
Pierre-Marie Aubert coordinates Iddri’s Public Policies for European Agriculture initiative. His activities look at the interactions between agricultural development, food security and biodiversity conservation.
Marielle Court was a journalist, reporter and assistant editor-in-chief in the economy, society, sciences and environment bureau at the Figaro from 1986-2019.
Se nourrir sans pesticides,faire revivre la biodiversité
THE AGROECOLOGICAL EUROPE OF TOMORROW
Xavier Poux and Pierre-Marie Aubert In collaboration with Marielle Court
To build a future for ourselves we have to begin cultivating our fields and raising livestock without using pesticides and synthetic fertilizers to feed the whole population. That future has a name: agroecology.
The authors, renowned expert agronomists, have come up with a new proposal: “tyfa” – Ten Years for Agroecology – which shows how it is possible to feed 530 million inhabitants with healthy food between now and 2050 by completely bypassing synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
Theirs is the first calculated model which proves that it is possible to develop agroecology on a European scale. There is however one condition: these changes have to be accompanied by modifications in European lifestyles. Our ways of life have to become more sustainable and “sober”. Some view this as disastrous. Any “catastrophe” however would be outweighed by the huge benefits to humanity: we already eat too much and eat badly and counterproductively churn out sub-quality food, all of which flies in the face of European health authorities’ recommendations. Based on in-depth analysis of environmentally proven agricultural systems, the authors offer a clear explanation of how, in the years leading to 2050, Europe could develop solid agroecological foundations. The ten years to come however will prove crucial to implement the plan.
