Welcome to www.euagris.it, the website of the European Observatory for Sustainable Agriculture!
The European Observatory sets its focus primarily on sustainable agriculture as an efficient way to antagonize poverty in the poorest rural areas of the world.With the term sustainable agriculture we intend a diversified production that is economically valid that supplies food and fibers for human need while respecting man and its environment: it allows access to food in a natural healthy environment and in fair and respectful manner to human dignity.Sustainable agriculture operates to create and maintain an integral agricultural and environmental system based on natural processes, set up in a way that it is independent as well as productive in the short and long term ad able to preserve its resources for future generations.It largely utilizes natural processes in agriculture and in breeding as well as renewable energy sources in the aim to reduce the environmental impact due to the use of chemicals, the intensive use of the earth, the one-crop agriculture and the indiscriminate disposal of production residues: this overall improves the quality of life for farmers and the entire society.The issue of sustainable agriculture as defined by the European Observatory is strongly bonded to integral rural development experiences and it concentrates on practices that value the knowledge, the local traditional productions, they protect agricultural biodiversity and are based on fair trade and other aspects that place it in an operative manner.In this website you can find the Euagris Project Database, an informative archive of projects available for the various actors that operate with these issues.