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Welcome to the Network Vital Agriculture and Nutrition

The Network Vital Agriculture and Nutrition (NVLV) is a national movement for innovative methods for natural sustainability, on healthy grounds. This network comprises partner organisations / professional members and friends, active in (overlapping) theme groups and subnetworks.

As a vanguard movement we've been shaping and giving direction to solutions in three areas that Michael Pollan (Feb. 2009) proposes: raise awareness and develop knowledge concerning:
1. a more natural agriculture, based on sustainable cycles
2. carrots instead of sticks in rules and regulations
3. by buying responsibly / investing in regional produce, consumers 'vote' with their forks for the type of agriculture, biodiversity and landscape they want.

The partner organisations and professional members are active as scientists, advisors, farmers, project offices, editors etc; they are working on:

• healthy living soils and
• restoring cycles in agriculture, resulting in clean water and air,
• vital nutrition,
• healthy people,
• biodiversity,
• animal welfare,
• eco-regions and a green economy.

Pioneering work out of passion and personal leadership; working with intuition and not for quick profit; using innovative science and knowledge gained from experience; looking for balance in carbon economy as well as new forms of regional cooperation; creating public support for real food and a bond with nature. This is how we develop solutions for the future, learning and working together in projects, courses, workshops and at network days.

Friends are all those who want to strengthen and promote this movement, who look kindly on our work, who participate, provide ideas and/or financial means and who have signed up as a member because of it. Everyone can become a member. Participate?

Our dream is for farmers to produce healthy food with renewed joy, with confidence in their own wisdom and with respect for nature, so they can provide wholesome vital food, healthy animals and sustainable use and management of our landscape. And for consumers to be aware of what they eat, where it originates and how their food contributes to their health.

How do we realise that dream? By learning together and sharing knowledge at theme days and symposia, in working groups and regional (sub)networks; by cooperating in projects; by founding the Sustainable Farmers' Guild, by substantiating and monitoring new methods, by providing mutual feedback and coaching, by linking up with other innovative networks and through a collective lobby with the government.