Farmer-led Research on Europe’s Full Productivity

This report marks the beginning of EARA’s ongoing farmer-led research program, which breaks new ground both methodologically and empirically. At its core is a simple yet powerful idea: to measure what Europe’s most pioneering farmers are achieving, across both agricultural and ecological dimensions, using a novel, farmercentred index called Regenerating Full Productivity (RFP). Designed to be both comprehensive and easy to use, the RFP index offers a new way to understand and track the real-world productivity of agriculture. This first phase of research tests the index in practice, grounding it in the lived success of farmers already leading the transition.