Project description
Growing agroforestry with digital tools
Combining trees with crops or livestock on the same land has the potential to mitigate climate change. As a resilient agricultural practice, agroforestry (AF) can sequester carbon, preserve biodiversity and contribute to food security by diversifying agricultural production. The EU-funded DIGITAF project will promote AF systems. Specifically, it will co-develop digital tools tailored to the needs and concerns of AF target groups, including policy actors, practitioners and actors involved in the AF value chain. The project will implement six Living Labs in different countries to ensure an end-user-centred multi-actor approach. Bringing together 25 partners from 20 countries, DIGITAF will cover the entire AF value chain. It will contribute to farm sustainability, climate change mitigation, biodiversity preservation and soil conservation.
Objective
Agroforestery (AF) has already proven its potential for farm sustainability, climate change mitigation & adaptation, biodiversity preservation, and soil conservation. However, AF performances are context-dependent, and many barriers hinder its adoption, such as lack of tools for decision-making, assessing economic, environmental, social benefits, and monitoring of policies and their impact on AF. DigitAF will boost AF implementation in the EU and beyond thanks to the co-development of digital tools tailored to the needs and concerns of DigitAF target groups. To engage actors whose decisions impact AF implementation,DigitAF will:
(1) Support policy-actors at various scales to design more efficient policies supporting AF adoption & carbon farming;
(2) Provide tools helping practitioners (farmers…) deal with the complexity of AF systems. DigitAF will allow them to optimize the design and management of agroforestry systems at field and farm scale;
(3) Enhance capacities of actors to assess, quantify and market the economic, environmental and social performance and benefits of AF.
The end-user centred multi-actor approach of DigitAF will be made possible by implementing 6 living labs (LL) in Italy, Germany, Netherland, United Kingdom, Finland and the Czech Republic. Open-source tools will be co-developed thanks to the existing or novel practical knowledge, scientific evidence and models. They will be tested with the end-users from LL and improved thanks to their feedback. Larger dissemination to target groups will be ensured through DigitAF partners gathering members and networks across EU.
DigitAF consortium brings together 25 partners from 20 countries from the EU, Associated Countries and beyond, composed of RTOs (9), universities (5), SMEs (6), European and international organisations (4), NGO and cooperative (1). DigitAF consortium and the LL cover all AF value chain actors, thus efficiently supporting AF implementation in the EU.
Fields of science
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculture
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestry
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9820 Merelbeke
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34070 Montpellier
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8200 AARHUS N
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7085 NAGYSZEKELY
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LV 4013 Limbazu Novads
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541 24 KALAMARIA, THESSALONIKI
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1013 AP Amsterdam
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75012 Paris
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49120 Chemille En Anjou
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75016 Paris
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165 00 Praha
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03046 Cottbus
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80100 Joensuu
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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75013 Paris
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00100 Nairobi
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3981 AJ Bunnik
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7750-217 Espirito Santo, Mertola
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5000 ODENSE C
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1000 Ljubljana
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56127 Pisa
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06006 Badajoz
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9000 Gent
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25243 Pruhonice
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35020 Legnaro
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84911 Avignon
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56126 Pisa
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53715 Madison
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G1N 1S6 Québec
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3003 Bern
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MK43 0AL Cranfield - Bedfordshire
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