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How do we find Common Ground when rapid change is needed? Local sovereignty and peace are directly interrelated with just food systems around the globe, ultimately creating healthy ecosystems, for healthy people and communities.
To overcome our presumed divisions, the 7th World Organic Forum 2024 brought together people from all over the world to discuss inclusive, non-dogmatic approaches. The forum explored how to synergistically integrate diverse agricultural concepts to regenerate agrifood ecosystems while restoring agency to the farmers and people working on the land.
The World Organic Forum, a global conference on development and agricultural policy, was held at Kirchberg Castle, Germany from 1 - 3 July 2024 in Kirchberg/Jagst, Germany. Since 2023, the Akademie Schloss Kirchberg (Academy for Organic Agriculture and Food) has increasingly focused on agronomic and agri-cultural aspects of the 2030 Agenda in addition to development policy aspects. The 7th World Organic Forum 2024 concentrated on the triad of organic farming, agroecology, and regenerative agriculture, providing a platform to consider all three agricultural concepts in terms of their potential and contribution to increasing climate resilience and as tools for ecological, economic, and social value creation.
It is particularly important to Akademie Schloss Kirchberg to facilitate new synergies and partnerships in its field of activity at the interface between agriculture, the food economy, rural regional development and global development cooperation. The aim is to create spaces characterised by openness and appreciation for indigenous cultures, agricultural practices and approaches to holistic ecological, economic, social, cultural and political value creation.
