Project description
Europe's organic farming revolution for climate resilience
Recognising its potential as a climate-resilient food production system with additional environmental benefits, the EU aims to increase organic farming to 25 % by 2030. With climate neutrality by 2050 in sight, the EU-funded OrganicClimateNET project aims to connect 250 organic farms across 12 EU countries and enable them to develop financially viable climate strategies. The farmers will receive individual carbon assessments and profit from peer-to-peer learning activities with trained advisors in 24 local hubs. The results, 100-plus up-to-date knowledge materials, a decision support toolbox and data for policymaking, will build a baseline for organic farming to integrate climate mitigation and adaptation. With 17 partners spanning 14 countries, OrganicClimateNET bridges mature and developing organic regions, reinforcing sustainable practices for a climate-resilient future.
Objective
With the aim to increase organic farming to 25% by 2030, the EU recognizes the potential of organic farming to contribute to a climate neutral Europe by 2050 and other environmental EU-targets. However, to achieve these targets, it is important to step-up the capability and the capacity of organic farms to reduce GHG-emissions and remove carbon through sequestration. The overall aim of OrganicClimateNET is to establish a pilot network of 250 organic farms to adapt, test, improve and implement climate and carbon farming practices. Key to this are the peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchanges between farmers organised in 24 hubs in 12 EU countries and facilitated by trained advisors. Concrete outputs are individual carbon farming strategies of the pilot farms as role models for the entire organic sector; 120+ climate and carbon knowledge materials, improved, translated and adapted to organic farming feeding into a decision support toolbox and freely accessible via the highly frequented Organic Farm Knowledge Platform; the evaluation of carbon farming business models (including MRV and rewarding schemes); upscaling to EU level in a quantitative assessment of the emission reduction and sequestration potential of the EU organic sector based on the data set from the 250 pilot farms; engagement with other EU-Projects and organic AKIS actors outside the network; and a network sustainability plan to sustain the network and knowledge exchange activities on the long term. Project results feed steadily in policy briefs and policy dialogue workshops to support effective climate policy design. The 4-year project gathers 17 partners (extension, farming associations, research) from 16 countries allowing exchange between countries with a mature organic sector and countries where organic farming is less developed.
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgium
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Participants (15)
75012 Paris
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35390 Giessen
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531 98 LIDKOPING
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28041 Madrid
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05-552 MAGDALENKA
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41013 Sevilla
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00101 HELSINKI
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N37 N1W4 ATHLONE WESTMEATH
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55116 Mainz
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1750 145 LISBOA
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010436 Bucharest
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3018 Ozolnieki Ozolnieku Novads
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00159 Roma
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3981 AJ Bunnik
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51014 Tartu
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5070 Frick
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