Objective
The overall goal of DiverIMPACTS is to achieve the full potential of diversification of cropping systems for improved productivity, delivery of ecosystem services and resource-efficient and sustainable value chains by (i) assessing performances of crop diversification through rotation, intercropping and multiple cropping, (ii) providing rural areas actors with those key enablers and innovations that would remove existing barriers and ensure actual uptake of benefits of crop diversification at farm, value chain and territory levels and (iii) make recommendations to policy-makers to facilitate the coordination of all relevant actors within the value chain. DiverIMPACTS will build on existing experiences of crop diversification by networking and expanding 10 existing field experiments to quantify impacts of crop diversification and by accompanying 25 multi-actor case studies in their dynamic transition. DiverIMPACTS will propose a range of technical and organisational innovations to remove lock-ins from farmers to consumers as well as strategies and recommendations to sustain crop diversification.
The consortium gathers a wide range of actors (farmers and farmer organisations, advisory services, cooperatives, logistic providers, scientists, industry, representatives of civil society and of rural areas). Through a multi-actor approach, DiverIMPACTS will accompany and support innovation groups in their dynamic process to develop sustainable value chain systems characterised by a high level of crop diversification and new market products. The consortium involves pioneer actors of crop diversification and has strong experience in both the design and multi-criteria assessment of innovative systems and the analysis of barriers that impede the transition towards sustainable diversified systems that contribute to the Rural Renaissance objectives.
Fields of science
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- social sciencespolitical sciencepolitical policycivil society
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata exchange
- agricultural sciencesanimal and dairy science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-RUR-2016-2
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
75007 Paris Cedex 07
France
Participants (33)
50786 Bucuresti
75008 Paris 8
75012 Paris
49007 Angers Cedex 1
06049 Spoleto
8222 RB Lelystad
6152 Huswil
23 420 Tarnogrod
2018 Antwerpen
5030 Gembloux
00198 Roma
00159 Roma
5070 Frick
291 09 Kristianstad
8800 Rumbeke Roselare
75015 Paris
24 100 Pulawy
75016 Paris
26121 Oldenburg
CV8 2LG Kenilworth Warwickshire
3206 Biberen
1174 Budapest
GL7 6JN Cirencester
Participation ended
061471 Bucuresti
5000 Namur
6711 JC Ede
6708 PB Wageningen
750 07 Uppsala
38116 Braunschweig
1348 Louvain La Neuve
1012WX Amsterdam
6708 PB Wageningen
5140 Sombreffe