Syntropic Farming is a nature-inspired approach to regenerative agriculture that restores life, soil health, and biodiversity by working with ecological succession and natural processes.

Developed in the 1980s by the Brazilian farmer-researcher Ernst Götsch, syntropic agriculture is now spreading rapidly across Europe — proving that forest-like, abundant food systems are possible even in temperate climates.

What makes Syntropic Farming special?

• It mimics the natural regeneration of forests
• It creates productive, diverse, resilient agro-ecosystems
• It restores degraded soils and watersheds
• It increases fertility over time instead of depleting it, like general agriculture practices do
• It integrates food production, forestry, biodiversity, and human livelihood

🌳 What Syntropic Farming can look like

“The role of human beings is to serve life, increasing the conditions for life to express itself.” —Ernst Götsch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSPNRu4ZPvE

Why Syntropic Farming matters for the future of agriculture

“What if agriculture didn’t extract from nature, but actively restored it?”

Agriculture today is reaching its ecological limits. Soils are degrading, biodiversity is declining, and food systems are increasingly vulnerable to climate and energy shocks. At the same time, much of farming remains dependent on fossil fuels and external inputs, making it ecologically and economically fragile.

Syntropic farming offers a concrete response to these challenges. Rather than merely reducing harm, it regenerates ecosystems while producing food. By rebuilding soil fertility, increasing biodiversity, and generating biomass directly on site, syntropic systems grow food within thriving, self-reinforcing landscapes.

This training is for people who want to learn how agriculture can function within planetary boundaries — restoring soils, reducing input dependency, and designing productive systems that grow stronger with time.