Plant Health Day: Our Response

95% of the world's food depends on healthy plants. Yet according to the FAO, up to 40% of global crops are lost every year to pests and plant diseases, with direct consequences on food security, soil health, and farmer livelihoods across every continent.

For the International Day of Plant Health, the BIOFAIRNET project is working on three concrete levers. The first is circular nutrient flows: by reducing reliance on synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, bio-circular farming strengthens plants' natural resilience. The second is cross-sector partnerships: thirteen partners across three continents are co-creating solutions adapted to different climates and farming traditions. The third is pilot validation in real conditions, real soils, real climates, real farmers, with pilots running in Greece and Reunion Island and validation sites in Canada and Kenya.

At ECO Imagination, we support BIOFAIRNET through communication and dissemination across Europe. Our work focuses on translating research into accessible content and engaging the stakeholders who can turn these findings into action, because a bio-circular economy only moves forward when the right people hear about it.