Farmer training and advisory organisation specialising in regenerative agriculture for the Polish Landscape (Lower Silesia)

General objectives As part of its mission to make food systems more sustainable and healthier, EIT Food delivers the Regenerative Innovation Portfolio with regenerative landscapes in different parts of Europe. EIT Food prepares the launch of the first regenerative landscape in Poland, in collaboration with off-takers, Consumer Packaged Goods companies (CPGs), and other landscape stakeholders, where farmers are facing issues related to climate change, erosion, soil impoverishment, and declining biodiversity. These environmental problems have been aggravated by the high cost of agricultural production and stagnant sales prices that lead to a loss of profitability of crop and livestock farms.

To reverse these trends and help farmers and industries transition, the Regenerative Agriculture Landscape in Poland focuses on the following key areas: 

1. Supporting European farmers in the transition to regenerative agriculture.
2. Measuring the progress. 
3. Working with agri-food companies to bring sustainability and regeneration to the entire value chain. 
4. Conveying to the consumer the health and environmental benefits of regenerative agriculture.

EIT Food is seeking a farmer training and advisory organisation specialising in technical support for regenerative agriculture to deliver farmer training and advisory services throughout the project and establish a strong methodology that can be repeated for training and advisory elsewhere. This project involves:

1. Adopting a landscape approach in the region of Lower Silesia to train and support up to 200 farmers in the transition to regenerative agriculture with various crops, incl. sugar beets, wheat, malting barley, oilseed rape so that they adopt the regenerative agriculture practices.
2. Collaborate with another contractor that is delivering the landscape’s MRV – this may include a collection of samples, supporting farmers to input data to the platform, and liaising between stakeholders.
3. Knowledge sharing – organizing demo days on farms, and providing materials for farmers.