Nature Needs Agroecology Francesco Sottile Francesco Sottile, agronomist and member of Slow Food Italy’s Executive Board, comments on the paradoxes between the urgent need for sustainable agriculture, and the reality of what is happening in negotiations rooms and in the fields. Francesco Sottile, 2018 © Francesca Cirilli This is without doubt a complex period for the planet’s agriculture, a period in which the hiatus between what we see happening in the field and the corrective actions that ensue is profound. In the wake of 2014, the UN has slated the years 2019-2028 as the Decade of F...