A novel resilience framework for farming systems has been developed jointly with the whole SURE-Farm consortium. The framework enables to capture complex and accumulating challenges of farming systems and centres around three resilience capacities (robustness, adaptability, transformability) as key determinants of resilience. The framework has already been broadly communicated to scientific audiences as well as to stakeholders. With regard to possible future situations for EU farming systems, five scenarios have been developed based on socio-economic pathways, and presented to a scientific audience. Multiple primary data collection methods have been initiated in the case study (CS) regions, including structured and pilot-tested farm surveys on risk perceptions, risk management and resilience capacities, biographical narratives with farmers with regard to their adaptive behaviour, and in-depth interviews with farmers to understand learning capacity and self-organisation. Next to primary data, secondary data are collected with regard to uptake of the Risk Management toolkit, and yield and weather data for insurance purposes. Farm demographic trends and challenges have been reviewed in 11 CS, and interviews with farmers and key informants are undertaken, also in 11 CS. Also focus groups aimed to retrieve data for the farm demographic assessment tool are finished in 5 CS. The ResAT tool is applied to the CAP and local legislation in 11 CS with interesting findings already presented during a multi-stakeholder seminar in the Netherlands. An Integrated Assessment (IA) toolbox for assessment of resilience and delivery of private and public goods of farming systems has been developed including a variety of models. Participatory workshops on the assessment of current sustainability and resilience are organized in 11 CS. The approach to integrate the findings of different WPs in each CS region into a holistic analysis has been conceptualised and will be grounded in the five generic principles of resilience and will address both resilience enhancing and resilience-constraining attributes. Back-casting in 11 CS will be used to identify implementation roadmaps (who? what? when?). The SURE-Farm project employs multiple co-creation processes along the different parts of the project including digital co-creation through a dedicated area on the SURE-Farm website, local co-creation, and a central co-creation group consisting of public and private stakeholders who provide feedback on approaches and outcomes. Key deliverables are also assessed by an international scientific committee. Key results at this stage of the project are (i) we created a framework which enables to provide an ‘elaborated diagnosis’ of the resilience of a farming system, e.g. eventually simultaneously finding a resilience-constraining environment for social and economic challenges and a resilience-enhancing environment for environmental challenges, or vice versa; (ii) five scenarios have been elaborated in the context of resilience; (iii) we found that most CS perceive generational renewal as a future challenge for the resilience of farming systems; (iv) we concluded that current policies and strategies mostly contribute to robustness and adaptability, but less to transformability; and (v) we found that modelling tools are available to assess robustness and adaptability, but less for transformability.
