Project
AGROECOLOGY
European Partnership on accelerating farming systems transition – agroecology living labs and research infrastructures
Agroecology is considered as an important approach to develop the transition to sustainable agriculture and food systems. Agroecology is based on natural, biological interactions and integrates cutting-edge science, technology and innovation, incorporating the knowledge of stakeholders in the agricultural and food systems. In January 2024, the new European partnership “European partnership on accelerating farming systems transition – agroecology living labs and research infrastructures – AGROECOLOGY” was launched to promote a transition to more sustainability, resilience, environmental and climate friendliness in the agriculture and food industry.
Background and Objective
The European Partnership “AGROECOLOGY” started in January 2024. It is an initiative financed by Horizon Europe “co-funded partnership” and coordinated by PtJ on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). The Thünen Institute is one of over 70 partners from 26 countries.
The common goal of the Partnership is to promote sustainable, resource-efficient and climate-friendly agriculture under the term agroecology. The Partnership relies on an interdisciplinary scientific approach to agricultural, environmental and social sciences.
In the long term, it envisions far-reaching changes in agricultural practices, value chains and business models to provide farmers with market opportunities while providing food to consumers. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the BMEL are actively involved by supporting transnational research projects that are intended to advance the national transformation to agroecology.
Approach
The AGROECOLOGY partnership relies on a common vision whereby a broad stakeholder constellation teams up to unlock the transition to agroecology so that farming systems are made resilient, productive and prosperous, place-sensitive, as well as climate-, environment-, ecosystem-, biodiversity- and people-friendly by 2050.
It is based on the concept that we can address the challenges faced by the European agricultural sector through agroecology by bringing together farmers, researchers, and other relevant stakeholders to co-develop, test and monitor new practices, approaches and technologies in real-life contexts. Such a framework is typically adopted in living labs. The partnership will develop networks of living labs and research infrastructures to allow experimentation between practice and
science at different levels in order to develop and enhance the concrete and place-based
implementation of innovations. This approach will also provide knowledge- and evidence-based
information about how to assess the potential performance and impacts of agroecological practices in both the short and the long-term.
Further information about the project is available on our project website: https://www.agroecologypartnership.eu/
The project is funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe Framework
Programme for Research and Innovation under grant agreement No. 101132349.Thünen-Contact
Involved Thünen-Partners
Involved external Thünen-Partners
- Forschungszentrum Jülich
(Jülich, Deutschland) -
Université de Liège
(Liège, Belgien) -
FiBL Europe - Forschungsinstitut für Biologischen Landbau in Europa
(Brüssel, Belgien) - Aarhus University
(Aarhus, Tjele, Dänemark) - Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement (INRAE)
(Paris, Toulouse, Montpellier, Avignon, Ivry-sur-Seine, Clermont-Ferrand, Rennes, Thiverval-Grignon, Dijon, Orleans, Bordeaux, Pierroton, Frankreich) - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
(Paris, Rennes, Montpellier, Frankreich) - Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum (DBFZ)
(Leipzig, Deutschland) -
ÖMKi Hungarian Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
(Budapest, Ungarn) - CIRAD (Centre de Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Agricultural Research Centre for International Development)
(Montpellier, Frankreich) - Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
(Madrid, Cordoba, Spanien) - French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) (ANR)
(Paris, Frankreich) -
HBLFA Francisco Josephinum (Höhere Bundeslehr- und Forschungsanstalt für Landwirtschaft, Landtechnik und Lebensmitteltechnologie)
(Wieselburg, Österreich) - Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE)
(Helsinki, Mikkeli, Jokioinen, Vanda, Finnland) - Benaki Phytopathological Institute (BPI)
(Kifisia, Griechenland) - CREA, Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Analisi dell'Economia Agraria
(Rom, Italien) -
National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research, I.P. (INIAV)
(Oeiras, Portugal) - Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops (IFVCNS)
(Novi Sad, Serbien) -
National Forest Centre, Forest Research Institute
(Zvolen, Slowakei) - Life Watch ERIC (e-Science European infrastructure for biodiversity and ecosystem research)
(Sevilla, Spanien) - Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V.
(Müncheberg, Deutschland) - Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
(Wageningen, Niederlande) -
Agroscope
(Reckenholz, Schweiz)
Funding Body
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European Union (EU)
(international, öffentlich)
Duration
1.2024 - 12.2030
More Information
Project funding number: 101132349
Funding program: EU - Horizon Europe
Project status:
ongoing
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