Objective
Ecological approaches to farming practices are gaining interest across Europe. As this interest grows there is a pressing need to assess the potential contributions these practices may make, the contexts in which they function and their attractiveness to farmers as potential adopters. In particular, ecological agriculture must be assessed against the aim of promoting the improved performance and sustainability of farms, rural environment, rural societies and economies, together.
The overall goal of LIFT is to identify the potentiel benefits of the adoption of ecological farming in the European Union (EU) and to understand how socio-economic and policy factors impact the adoption, performance and sustainability of ecological farming at various scales, from the level of the single farm to that of a territory.
To meet this goal, LIFT will assess the determinants of adoption of ecological approaches, and evaluate the performance and overall sustainability of these approaches in comparison to more conventional agriculture across a range of farm systems and geographic scales. LIFT will also develop new private arrangements and policy instruments that could improve the adoption and subsequent performance and sustainability of the rural nexus. For this, LIFT will suggest an innovative framework for multi-scale sustainability assessment aimed at identifying critical paths toward the adoption of ecological approaches to enhance public goods and ecosystem services delivery. This will be achieved through the integration of transdisciplinary scientific knowledge and stakeholder expertise to co-develop innovative decision-support tools.
The project will inform and support EU priorities relating to agriculture and the environment in order to promote the performance and sustainability of the combined rural system. At least 30 case studies will be performed in order to reflect the enormous variety in the socio-economic and bio-physical conditions for agriculture across the EU.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
75007 Paris
France
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Participants (16)
69280 Marcy L Etoile
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EH9 3JG Edinburgh
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R93 Carlow
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3000 Leuven
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750 07 Uppsala
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40126 Bologna
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1180 Wien
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53113 Bonn
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1049 Bruxelles / Brussel
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050711 Bucharest
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1097 Budapest
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00330 Warszawa
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11145 Athina
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CT2 7NZ Canterbury, Kent
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75013 PARIS
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85354 Freising
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.