Project description
Supporting small farms and foresters across Europe
The EU-funded Crop-MATCHING project introduces, adopts and applies a novel agro-ecological concept that ‘matches’ farming systems by mimicking nature to support long-lasting and effective solutions. This approach enables small-scale farms to effectively implement environmentally friendly practices, thereby further supporting rural communities, agro-biodiversity, and both environmental and economic objectives. With this in mind, Crop-MATCHING is developing a holistic approach to identify underutilised knowledge and best sustainable practices, aimed at creating impartial, tailored expertise to assist small farmers and foresters in overcoming the challenges they face.
Objective
The overall objective of Crop-MATCHING is to set up a holistic approach to identify information, underutilized knowledge and best sustainable practices from small-scale farms, mix and match them into crop combinations (such as crop rotation, strip cropping, or vertical cropping) and generate new impartial and tailored knowledge specific to small farmers'/foresters' requirements. Crop-MATCHING by proposing successful and easy-to-use small-scale farming practices, aims to provide an ‘automotive’ solution to the problems smallholder farmers/foresters face in EU agriculture and at the same time, line up with the European Green Deal, Rural Vision, Climate policy and Farm to Fork strategy. What is of great concern is the fact that the number of small farms follows a sharp decrease. In this context small farms produce most of the healthy and biodiverse food that we eat every day, they provide local jobs and sustain rural activities, and they secure the resilience of our food system. Crop-MATCHING considering the important role of smallholder farmers/foresters and their need to have sustainably fair economic returns to continue farming activities and remain in the rural areas proposes the wide use of successful and easy-to-use farming practices. Through, the exploitation of various networks it is aimed to identify, diffuse, and convince farmers/foresters to adopt these successful practices. Through the proposed procedure, initially, the underutilised knowledge that appears in the literature (or identified in previous EU projects) will be mapped (more than 100 practices); almost all European territory and several pedoclimatic zones will be covered, as small and subsistence farms don't present the same structure and need everywhere. Conceptualized actions to communicate ready-to-use practices, through Crop-MATCHING, including digital cloud solutions, info packages, fact sheets, practice groups, open-access databases, e-learning, infographics, videos, website and social media.
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- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture sustainable agriculture
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- social sciences economics and business economics sustainable economy
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2024-GOVERNANCE-01
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