Project description
New crop rotations for agriculture’s climate change adaptation
HORIZON-MISS-2023-CLIMA-01-01 envisions that EU regions will assume responsibility for innovating their own solutions to climate change (CC) adaptation in agriculture. Locally co-created roadmaps should detail local targets for adaptation, empowering regional stakeholders to innovate nature-based solutions (NBS) that align with national and international policies. The EU-funded TRANSFORM project will innovate crop rotations as NBS for farmers, supporting regional adaptation to CC. The project brings together stakeholders within an innovation process to co-create roadmaps for agricultural adaptation, a farmer-orientated tool to innovate new rotations, and mapping methods to visualise economic, societal and environmental (ESE) impacts. TRANSFORM will support regions in achieving adaptation to CC by evaluating the ESE impacts of rotations against the targets in the regional roadmaps for better planning.
Objective
The vision of the HORIZON-MISS-2023-CLIMA-01-01 call is that Europe’s Regions will be responsible for their sustainable and resilient adaptation to climate change (CC), by developing Roadmaps for adaptation of agriculture to CC. These roadmaps will need to empower regional stakeholders to innovate new, nature-based solutions that meet society’s needs for CC adaptation through better planning that is compatible with national and international policy. TRANSFORM proposes that innovating new crop rotations – the sequences of crops that farmers use to achieve their farming goals – will deliver nature-based solutions for sustainable and resilient CC adaptation in arable and mixed farming. Working in the Atlantic Biogeographic Region (Bio-region) of Europe, we adopt an explicitly multi-actor approach in which stakeholders are in charge of the innovation. TRANSFORM will co-create with stakeholders tools and methods: for Regional-level Roadmaps that describe the needs for adaptation of local people in agriculture; for farmers to innovate crop rotations for their region using the Future Rotations Explorer tool; and, a Toolbox of spatio-temporal methods and tools for stakeholders to explore and evaluate the societal, economic and environmental indicators of impact of rotations. When embedded within our social science methods, these methods and tools will leverage an iterative ‘pipeline to innovation’ for CC adaptation in agriculture that produces lists of acceptable crop rotations, and maps for planning, across the Atlantic Bio-region, and ultimately the whole of Europe. This will allow the European Commission, EU Member States and associated countries and their regions and stakeholders to make progress in attaining the goals of the EU Mission: Adaptation to Climate Change.
Fields of science
Keywords
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinator
75007 Paris
France