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Valorising and balancing the ecosystem service benefits offered by legumes, and legume-based cropped systems

Descrizione del progetto

La strada verso un’agricoltura sostenibile passa per i legumi

Di fronte alle sfide dell’agricoltura, il progetto LegumES, finanziato dall’UE, assicura la quantificazione e l’equilibrio dei benefici ambientali ed economici dei servizi ecosistemici forniti dai legumi (come piselli, fagioli, lenticchie, ceci e soia), affrontando gli aspetti ambientali ed economici. Con un consorzio di 22 partner tra università, organizzazioni di ricerca, PMI, ONG e aziende commerciali, LegumES utilizza un approccio di ricerca-azione. Coinvolgendo i portatori di interessi lungo le catene del valore, il progetto intende ottimizzare i servizi ecosistemici nell’agricoltura basata sui legumi a livello locale e globale. La strategia innovativa comprende 25 studi pilota innovativi sui legumi nelle diverse regioni pedoclimatiche d’Europa. Gli studi utilizzano una serie di specie e tipi di legumi, oltre a diversi approcci colturali.

Obiettivo

The legumES will ensure: 1, the uptake of best practices in agrobiodiverse legume-based cropped systems; 2, the uptake of methodologies and tools to quantify and balance the environmental and economic ecosystem service (ES) benefits provided by legumes; 3, that the ES benefits and cost offered by legumes are quantified across scales from field, farm, regional, national, and global levels; and 4, ES will be assessed to identify those conditions which are able to meet the EU targets: to decrease agrichemical inputs and losses, combat climate change, reverse biodiversity loss, and ensure the best nutritional provisioning. To achieve this, legumES offers a multi-disciplinary consortium comprising 22 partners from 12 EU- and third countries (UK, CH) and including: 7, academic institutions; 6, Research and Technology Organizations; 5, SMEs (or micro-SMEs); 2, non-governmental organisations; and 2, large commercial companies. The individuals comprising legumES offer skills which include: agricultural-crop and -environment (ES) monitoring, life cycle assessment, economic- and socioeconomic-modelling, social-science, EU-agricultural and environmental policy, and law, plus decision support systems. The legumES research and innovation strategy centres on the use of a multiactor action-research approach, that is, where legume-facing stakeholders, and especially producers though all value chains actors, can ‘operate’, ‘collaborate’ and, reflect critically’ on the measured ES benefits and costs of legume-based cropped systems, including legumes use in marginal lands; so that an optimal balance of ES can be achieved with success locally, and globally. To help achieve this LegumES also centres activities on a suite of 25 innovative legume-based Pilot Studies which use a wide range of legume species and types, plus different cropping approaches and linked value chains spanning the pedoclimatic regions of Europe.

Coordinatore

UNIVERSIDADE CATOLICA PORTUGUESA
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 526 232,50
Indirizzo
PALMA DE CIMA
1649 023 Lisboa
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Regione
Continente Área Metropolitana de Lisboa Área Metropolitana de Lisboa
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 526 232,50

Partecipanti (17)

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