Agroecology Europe Forum in Coimbra, Portugal, October 2027
The 5th edition of the Agroecology Europe Forum highlighted collaboration, integration and bold action to accelerate agroecological transitions across Europe. Under the theme “Transformation in Action” we came together with diverse stakeholders from all food system sectors to energise, strengthen and expand the European agroecology movement.
Building on this momentum, the Agroecology Europe Forum now moves from the Nordics to the Mediterranean and, in particular, the Iberian Peninsula in Coimbra, Portugal, in October 2027. With the theme “Reviving Cosmovisions” the Agroecology Europe Forum 2027, organised by FAST Agroecology and Agroecology Europe, invites participants to reimagine the deep relationships between people, food, land, and nature and draw new agroecological pathways.
Reviving Cosmovisions speaks to an urgent need: to reconnect current agrifood systems with the ancestral, biocultural, and place-based knowledge that has long guided sustainable interactions with the natural world. How food is produced, distributed, and consumed has always been central to people’s relationships with non-human nature and land.
Across regions, communities have historically drawn from diverse Indigenous and local knowledge systems that frame humans as part of Nature, not apart from it. Yet today, homogeneous and globalised agrifood systems have disrupted these relationships. Climate change, biodiversity loss, conflicts, ecological collapse, rural-to-urban migration, and the erosion of cultural memory are generating unprecedented threats to both ecosystems and social fabrics.
Why do we need to revive cosmovisions?
Cosmovisions help anchor agroecology in worldviews that treat food, land, and communities as interconnected. Bringing these perspectives back into practice offers practical guidance for rebuilding resilience, and advancing transitions that are both ecological and socially just.
The Coimbra Forum will highlight how Portugal is navigating its agroecological transition showcasing innovations across practice, science, territorial regeneration, and grassroots mobilization. It will serve as a meeting place to explore:
- Connections with Latin America and Africa, tracing shared histories, knowledge flows, and socio-ecological trajectories
- Interregional and intercultural knowledge exchange
- Science at the core of agroecological transitions, showcasing research, evidence, and innovations that inform policy and practice
- Policy dialogues, including reflections and visions ahead of the first year of the new EU CAP
- Living Labs as platforms for co-creation, experimentation, and collective learning
- Demonstration farms and territories practicing and embodying agroecological principles
- Gastronomy, food culture, and consumption, placing food not only as sustenance but as identity, memory, and relationship
We invite all practitioners, researchers, farmers, youth, policymakers, and communities to join us in Coimbra for #AEEUForum27. Stay tuned for more information.
Let’s co-create the next chapter of agroecology in Europe, rooted in memory, shaped by knowledge, and inspired by cosmovisions.
You can connect with FAST Agroecology at fast@uc.pt or follow their social media channels to stay updated on all news and opportunities related to the next Forum: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fast-agroecology/ & https://www.instagram.com/fast_agroecology/.
