Description du projet
Faire croître un secteur agricole véritablement durable
Afin d’alimenter et de nourrir une population croissante, l’agriculture se doit d’être durable. L’UE s’est engagée à adopter des systèmes d’agriculture durables et au bilan carbone neutre. Dans ce contexte, le projet LegumeLegacy, relevant des Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie, appliquera les dernières avancées dans les domaines de l’écologie, de l’agronomie, des statistiques et autres, afin de limiter les apports de nutriments et le lessivage, tout en augmentant les stocks de carbone, la biodiversité et la stabilité des rendements. LegumeLegacy rassemblera dix chercheurs doctoraux en vue de développer un système modèle de rotation des cultures, dans des parcelles expérimentales de prairie communes de six espèces. Les résultats permettront de concevoir des prairies de légumineuses dans les rotations de cultures qui optimisent les performances agronomiques et environnementales.
Objectif
With the European Green Deal, the EU has committed to transition to carbon-neutral and sustainable systems of agriculture. LegumeLegacy aims to adapt existing mixed or ruminant based production systems, using state of the art knowledge from ecology, agronomy, statistics and other fields to minimize greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient inputs and leaching (and costs), while increasing carbon stocks, biodiversity and yield stability. To achieve this, an exceptional and distinctive strategy of LegumeLegacy includes a common experiment across multiple LegumeLegacy sites; 10 Doctoral Researchers (DRs; two funded by the Swiss Government) will collaborate on the common experiment and have their own distinctive and complementary research objectives. To develop a model system of crop rotation, in the common experiment grassland plots of varying diversity of six species (two grasses, two legumes, two herbs, selected for complementary functional traits) will be established as a grassland ley, grown, and terminated; the grassland leys will be followed by a wheat crop. The effect of the diversity of the grassland ley on the performance of the crop rotation will be evaluated by measurement of yield, quality and environmental performance. LegumeLegacy will recommend the design of grassland leys within crop rotations that optimise agronomic and environmental performance; the multi-site experiment will generalise the conclusion and its implementation potential across Europe.
LegumeLegacy will train a cohort of 10 DRs into a new generation of future leaders who will have the capacity to develop and deploy interdisciplinary and data-driven sustainable practices in the agricultural sector. With a training programme that includes statistics, specialised research skills, targeted transferable skills and scientific co-operation within a global network, this cohort of future leaders will be equipped with professional skills for a range of associated disciplines in industry or academia.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régime de financement
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral NetworksCoordinateur
D02 CX56 DUBLIN 2
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