[Press Release] TRANSITIONS is building on its momentum and consolidating its driving role as the first impact-driven programme in Europe to support regenerative, low-carbon agriculture that promotes soil health and biodiversity
On 2 October 2025, during the second edition of its annual seminar, TRANSITIONS brought together nearly 160 participants — including farmers and financial, scientific, and technical partners — on UniLaSalle’s Campus in Beauvais, north of Paris. The event was an opportunity to review the programme’s progress and discuss the outlook for the future.
With a spirit of cooperation, cross-sector dialogue, and innovation, the collective journey continues. TRANSITIONS is gaining momentum!
You can find the full agenda and list of speakers here
VIVESCIA and Noriap cooperative groups are stepping up and expanding their commitment to the TRANSITIONS programme
TRANSITIONS by VIVESCIA
- The programme continues to scale up with 150 new VIVESCIA cooperative farmers signing up for three years. In total, 570 farmers are now part of the programme, providing 500,000 tonnes of grain and oilseed annually by 2026.
- The coalition is also growing downstream, with two new partners —beverage group SUNTORY, and Belgian family-owned frozen bakery group, VANDEMOORTELE — customers of Malteurop and Grands Moulins de Paris, respectively.
Beverage group, SUNTORY, and Belgian family-owned frozen bakery group, VANDEMOORTELE join the TRANSITIONS coalition
TRANSITIONS by Noriap
- The replication of the programme continues apace. Preparations for the launch are nearing completion with the recruitment of the first farmers across NORIAP’s territories: 66 are currently conducting their pre-diagnostics, and nine technicians are being trained with Arvalis.
- New partnerships have been formed, including a recently signed agreement with the Seine-Maritime Chamber of Agriculture focused on water management.
Noriap and the Seine-Maritime Chamber of Agriculture officialise their partnership
Farmer support and data management: the two fundamentals of the TRANSITIONS programme
Training and data management have been central to the programme, and they feature among the highlights of the past year. In addition to the financial support1, which is essential for mitigating the risk to farmers and compensating them for their efforts, technical support for farmers is key to the success of the transition. Over the past year, 116 dedicated training sessions were held for the 420 participating farmers across the region, and each farmer drafted an individual action plan.
Data management, the cornerstone of the programme, enabled the production of the first TRANSITIONS data report, based on a comprehensive dataset submitted by farmers through the Vi@parcelle by Wiuz traceability tool. To draft the report, built around TRANSITIONS’ four agronomic indicators — duration of soil coverage, reduction of GHG emissions, humified carbon returned to the soil, and environmental certification — nearly 500,000 data points were processed. Partner-customers received a GHG emission factor analysis for each crop.
1 Support was based on farmers’ results and progress: on average, they received €100 per hectare per year for level I (entry-level) and €150 for level II (high-performance) depending on the crops concerned. This premium per tonne of grain exceeds the additional costs of the agronomic measures taken.
TRANSITIONS 2024-2025: KEY FIGURES
About the TRANSITIONS Programme
Launched by the VIVESCIA cooperative Group and its partners in 2023, the TRANSITIONS programme — the first impact-driven programme of its kind in Europe — helps farms move towards more resilient, low-carbon farming practices that promote soil health and biodiversity. TRANSITIONS brings together plant and grain industries across the entire value chain in an ambitious, innovative, and robust programme that is aligned with internationally recognised scientific standards (GHG Protocol, SBTi Flag, SAI Regen Ag, etc.) and audited by Bureau Veritas. 1. A systemic agronomic framework that takes into account the soil, carbon, and biodiversity, Transitions was designed at the level of the farm — the only way to guarantee progress. The programme aims to mitigate financial and technical risk for farmers thanks to significant financial support, a collective training plan, and concrete individual support. 2. Coalitions of agri-food and manufacturing customers with technical and scientific partners (see below): only a collective solution will enable us to share the cost of a successful, large-scale transition of agricultural and food systems. 3. A digital chain of trust: The cornerstone of the programme, data is at the origin of a robust data chain whose methodology, pioneering in our sector, is unanimously recognised.
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