Regenerating agriculture together
The Regenerative Agriculture Community is driving the transition toward a resilient, sustainable, and climate-adaptive food system. Connected to the Regenerative Innovation Portfolio, developing as one of the leading networks in Europe, dedicated to scaling regenerative farming practices, we bring together innovators, businesses, and knowledge partners who believe that agriculture can be both profitable and restorative.
With a growing network of frontrunners across the food value chain — from agritech en biotech enabling companies, farmers, food producers to retailers, investors, and policymakers — we accelerate the adoption of regenerative principles that improve soil health, enhance biodiversity, and strengthen water systems.
Together, we turn sustainability ambitions into tangible business value and measurable environmental impact.
Through collaboration, shared learning, and innovation, the Regenerative Agriculture Community creates new opportunities for circular and climate-resilient supply chains.
We connect partners to inspiring innovations, actionable insights, proven practices, and pioneering initiatives that make regeneration a reality — from field to fork.
Join us as a partner and become part of a movement that restores nature, empowers farmers, and secures the future of affordable tasty and healthy food for generations to come.
The Regenerative Agriculture Community – driving the transition together
Regenerative agriculture is gaining momentum. In the Netherlands alone, over 350 initiatives are already underway (Schreefel & van Zanten, 2024). But many are still working in isolation, facing similar challenges without the benefit of shared insight or support. That’s where the Regenerative Agriculture Community comes in.
We connect farmers, off-takers, tech innovators, investors, and other key stakeholders to collaborate across regions and value chains to shape a more sustainable food system together. Our shared mission: removing barriers and accelerating the transition to regenerative agriculture by combining knowledge, technology, and expertise.
This community is fertile ground for partnership, learning, and innovation. It’s where ideas take root, collaborations flourish, and new business models emerge, all in service of a food system that restores ecosystems, strengthens rural economies, and builds lasting resilience. Now is the time to align, act, and regenerate together.
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Why join as a Community Partner?
- Be a frontrunner in regenerative agriculture and lead the way in innovation.
- Meet new and unexpected partners, collaborating within a vibrant, diverse network.
- Don’t reinvent the wheel: leverage existing initiatives and shared knowledge.
- Receive support to overcome early challenges and speed up your ideas.
- Connect with landscapes and farms to pilot and test your enabling solutions.
- Join the Regenerative Innovation Portfolio and become part of a unique European ecosystem
- Participate in accessible online and in-person events, making international networking and collaboration simple and inclusive.
Welcome to our newest partners
What partners say about Community
‘As interest in regenerative agriculture grows, we aim to understand its definitions, policies, and best practices to effectively integrate it into our future product offerings. We see regenerative agriculture as a key strategy for long-term sustainability and want to explore how it can benefit our products and operations.’
Dr. Oetker
‘S&dB has developed a concept that needs to be further validated and embraced by relevant stakeholders in our supply chain. We believe that the Regenerative Agriculture Community gives us access to these relevant partners, with whom we can further develop and scale our concept, and we can share our experiences with to achieve also their goals.’
Harmen Smid, CEO S&dBNews & Events
11 December 2025 – Foodvalley Partner Event
11 December 2025 – The RegenAg Community Breakout Session, part of Foodvalley Partner Event
8 January 2026 – The Regenerative Agriculture New Year’s Reception
Foodvalley Supports Launch of Landmark Regenerative Agriculture Landscape in Poland: Lower Silesia 360°
13 November 2025 – Meet The New Partners of The Regenerative Agriculture Community
RVO Thematic Day on Regenerative Agriculture
The Regenerative Agriculture Community is connected to The Regenerative Innovation Portfolio
The community is part of The Regenerative Innovation Portfolio, a collaboration platform that brings together a wide array of actors within Europe to action the critical systemic shift we need to fix our broken food system. The Regenerative Innovation Portfolio is an ecosystem collaboration, established as a Food Innovation Hub Europe Initiative of the World Economic Forum, and delivered by EIT Food in collaboration with Foodvalley.
It seeks to unlock new partnerships across the food and agriculture value chain, bringing practical solutions that will enable viable short and long-term business models for farmers who want to transition towards regenerative agriculture.
Its mission is to remove system level barriers to adoption of regenerative agriculture by farmers and do so by demonstrating pathways to transform at scale, boosting the supply and value of regeneratively produced products and delivered ecosystem services while de-risking the farmers in the transition.
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Initiatives
Regenerative Innovation Portfolio
We break barriers to RegenAg adoption by demonstrating innovative cross-value chain solutions in Europe
ReGeNL
ReGeNL is working alongside Dutch farmers to develop a future-proof agricultural sector
Regenerative Agriculture Transition Map
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Meet the team
Info box: What is Regenerative Agriculture?
Regenerative agriculture is a system of farming principles and practices that increases biodiversity, enriches soils, improves watersheds, and enhances ecosystem services. Regenerative agriculture is not a fixed set of measures, but a transition path towards a whole ecosystem approach, meaning aiming to work with nature instead of against it. For farm management decisions, the whole farming ecosystem is considered. All the stakeholders that are affected are also taken into consideration, and mutually beneficial relationships are established between them.
At the heart of regenerative farming is the soil and increasing soil health in a holistic agro-ecosystem. Some of the key techniques that are being used in regenerative agriculture to increase soil health are no tillage, cover crops, increasing biodiversity, rotation cropping, reducing reliance on synthetic inputs, attracting natural predators of pests and integrating livestock. The applying of practices is very context-specific and differs from farm to farm, region to region.
Regenerative agriculture is not determined by a fixed set of practices, but rather a transition towards an integral approach to farming that uses soil conservation as the basis. Therefore, the community uses the following working definition, developed by developed by Van den Hoorn et al. (2024):
“Regenerative agriculture is an integral approach to farming that uses soil conservation as the basis to regenerate multiple provisioning, regulating and supporting services, to actively enhance the ecological performance of farming systems, while sustaining the socio-economic viability. “ (Van den Hoorn et al., 2024)
Curious to read more about regenerative agriculture?
Find our Key resources section below!
Initiatives
Regenerative Innovation Portfolio
Relevant for
Regenerative Agriculture
We believe that the solution to transition agricultural practices by farmers lies in cross value chain collaboration, where all partners work together in facilitating the farmer, put in the central, to transition towards regenerative practices. This is not an agricultural transition but more a value chain transition that needs a collaborative approach to come to scale.
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ReGeNL
Relevant for
Regenerative Agriculture
ReGeNL is working alongside Dutch farmers to develop a future-proof agricultural sector, where farming goes hand in hand with soil improvement and nature restoration, while ensuring a profitable business model for farmers.
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Navarra 360º
Relevant for
Regenerative Agriculture
Navarra 360º is a pioneering project that seeks to promote Regenerative Agriculture in Navarra (Spain), validating agricultural practices, at a territorial level, as a European benchmark in the transition towards a new agriculture.
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Lower Silesia 360º
Relevant for
Regenerative Agriculture
Lower Silesia 360° is the third landscape project to be launched under the Regenerative Innovation Portfolio. It is one of the largest regenerative agriculture project in Poland and will run from 2025 to 2028.
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Foundational Reading & Reports
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development. (2025, March 19). Closing the gap: An analysis of the costs and incentives for regenerative agriculture in Europe. WBCSD. Retrieved July 10, 2025, from https://www.wbcsd.org/resources/closing-the-gap-an-analysis-of-the-costs-and-incentives-for-regenerative-agriculture-in-europe/
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development. (2025, February 18). Sowing change: EU policy opportunities to scale regenerative agriculture. WBCSD. Retrieved July 10, 2025, from https://www.wbcsd.org/resources/sowing-change-eu-policy-opportunities-to-scale-regenerative-agriculture/
- World Economic Forum. (2023, September). Collaboration on regenerative agriculture can strengthen food security. Retrieved July 10, 2025, from https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/09/regenerative-agriculture-and-food-security-can-be-helped-along-by-doing-this/
- Scherr, S. J., Buck, L., & Becqué, R. (2023). Landscape collaboration for regenerative food systems: Towards an action agenda. Regen10 and 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People. Retrieved July 10, 2025, from https://landscapes.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Landscape-collaboration-for-regenerative-food-systems_FINAL.pdf
- European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture. (2025). Farmer-led study on Europe’s Regenerating Full Productivity. Retrieved July 10, 2025, from https://eara.farm/wp-content/uploads/EARA_Farmer-led-Research-on-Europes-Full-Productivity_2025_06_03.pdf
- The Nature Conservancy. (n.d.). ReThink Soil: A roadmap to U.S. soil health. Retrieved July 10, 2025, from https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/rethink-soil-a-roadmap-to-us-soil-health/
Research & Academic Sources
- van den Hoorn, H., Jellema, A., van Dam, D., Pessers, R., Geerling-Eiff, F., & Manshanden, M. (2024). Regenerative agriculture in the EU: Exploring the transition (Report No. 2024-141). Wageningen Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.18174/680029
- Schreefel, L., Creamer, R. E., van Zanten, H. H. E., de Olde, E. M., Koppelmäki, K., Debernardini, M., de Boer, I. J. M., & Schulte, R. P. O. (2024). How to monitor the ‘success’ of agricultural sustainability: A perspective. Global Food Security, 43, Article 100810. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2024.100810
- Manshanden, M., Jellema, A., Sukkel, W., Hennen, W., Jongeneel, R., Brazao Vieira Alho, C., de Miguel Garcia, Á., de Vos, L., & Geerling-Eiff, F. (2023). Regenerative agriculture in Europe: An overview paper on the state of knowledge and innovation in Europe (Report No. 2023-058). Wageningen Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.18174/629483
- Schreefel, L., & van Zanten, H.H.E. (2024). Dutch initiatives working on regenerative agriculture and their international ambitions. Wageningen University & Research. https://doi.org/10.18174/662543
Frameworks, Standards & Tools
- Climate Farmers & ReImagined Futures. (n.d.). European agrifood systems map [Interactive map]. Retrieved July 10, 2025, from https://kumu.io/ReImagined-Futures/european-agrifood-systems-map
- EIT Food. (n.d.). The regenerative agriculture revolution [Online course]. Retrieved July 10, 2025, from https://learning.eitfood.eu/courses/the-regenerative-agriculture-revolution
- SAI Platform. (n.d.). Regenerating Together Programme. Retrieved July 10, 2025, from https://saiplatform.org/resource-centre/rtp/