1. Issues driving agroecology

1.1 Necessary transitions to achieve sustainability of practices and resources

On August 1 2024, on a global scale, we had already consumed all the natural resources our planet is capable of replenishing in a year. In 1971, this virtual date was only reached at the very end of December. This so-called "Earth Overshoot Day", whose date is calculated by the Global Footprint Project, is a striking illustration of the existence of planetary limits, and of the fact that in 2024, humanity will have used up the natural capital necessary to sustain life on Earth for five months, living on credit, as it were, against the planet's biocapacity. To regenerate what has been consumed, we would need 1.7 Earths in terms of surface area. The dates vary widely from country...

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Bibliography

(1) - CAQUET (T.), GASCUEL (C.), TIXIER--BOICHARD (M.) - Agroécologie : des recherches pour la transition des filières et des territoires. - Éditions Quæ (2020).
(2) - IPCC - Synthesis report – Climate change - (2023).

Regulations

Loi n° 2014-1170 du 13 octobre 2014 d'avenir pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et la forêt, JO du 14 octobre 2014 (amended): with this law, France introduced agroecology into the Code rural et de la mer.

Law no. 2021-1104 of August 22, 2021 on combating climate change and strengthening resilience to its effects, JO of August 24, 2021 (amended): known as the "Climate and Resilience" law, it targets...