The global food production system is the most polluting industry on the planet. It is wasteful, inefficient and unsustainable while being ruled by global trade agreements, monopolised by corporate control and dominated by large monocultures and industrial farms.

ALPA works on bioregional regeneration in the region between Transylvania’s main city Cluj-Napoca in the east and the Apuseni National Park in the west. We support the high values of the rich socio-ecological landscapes by bringing the benefits agroecology and biodiversity conservation into the stewardship of agricultural lands.

We believe that local food systems, in which small scale diversified and ecological farms care for the land, integrated with nature while providing healthy food for the local communities are a key strategy to plan our sustainable human life on our planet Earth.

This visual graph is adapted from the 4 dimensional map of Regeneration from Gaia Education. Here we show how our focus on land, biodiversity and local food systems touches on all domains of bioregional regeneration. Land and food are directly connected and interrelated with local culture, the worldview of people (how they experience and see human life as part of life as a whole), social wellbeing, economical resilience and ecological health. In the graph we name a few of many beneficial connections.

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