 Agroecology is typically the kind of policy we must now give a priority to because of the triple dividends it can deliver. First, it is far more friendly to the environment because it seeks to mimic nature by, if you wish, trying to close the loops on the farm and try to recycle waste and produce local inputs, reducing the need for external inputs in agriculture. Secondly, it is labor intensive and therefore it can create employment in rural areas and reduce the certification of rural areas at the same time as providing decent jobs. And thirdly, agroecology is a way to provide diverse and nutritious diets to the populations that produce their own food by diversified agriculture in the way agroecology recommends. So, agroecology is very much the direction we need to take in Europe, in which countries, as in developing countries, and it is indeed part of the new strategy from farm to fork that the European Commission has proposed for the European Union in late May of this year. It is, of course, closely linked to food sovereignty because agroecology is very difficult to develop and to support in a context in which food is globalized and in a context in which food producers compete against one another worldwide. Agroecology will only be able to prosper if we reinvest in local markets, in short supply chains and if we boost the supply of locally nutritious foods produced according to agroecological principles with a change in demand in the eating patterns so that the agroecological producers can market their produce in local markets. So agroecology is closely linked to the rethink of global trade relationships in the direction of food sovereignty. Agroecology is in fact very productive per hectare and per resource. It's resource efficient. It uses land and water in a very efficient way. However, it is labor intensive and therefore it is not very competitive in today's world and that is one reason why it is not able to expand very much without more support. But note that agroecology provides many positive externalities. It provides jobs, it provides healthy diets, it restores the environment and restores soil health and biodiversity in particular so if agroecology were rewarded for these services and if industrial agriculture were to internalize the social, environmental and sanitary costs of conventional agriculture then of course the equation would be very different.