Funding: Funded by the European Commission, Horizon Europe program
Coordinator: INRAE, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (France)
Time period: September 2022 - 2026.
Consortium partners: The Consortium is composed of 19 partners from 12 European countries, two of these countries, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, being outside the EU
Agroecology-TRANSECT - Trans-disciplinary approaches for systemic economic, ecological, and climate change transitions.
Agroecology-TRANSECT aims to contribute to releasing the full potential of agroecology for European agriculture by strengthening the knowledge base for farmers and advisors and supporting decision-makers. It aims to deliver robust evidence of the benefits of agroecology on climate change mitigation, biodiversity, and farm socio-economic resilience.
To achieve these objectives, Agroecology-TRANSECT supports the transition to agroecology through co-innovation dynamics including a transdisciplinary collaboration between researchers (agronomy, animal sciences, ecology, sustainability sciences, socio-economics, and political sciences) and stakeholders and mobilisation of knowledge and expertise in 11 multi-actor Innovation Hubs (IHs) which have been engaged in agroecological transition for several years. The selected IHs reflect a diverse range of crop, animal, and integrated crop-livestock systems, biogeographical areas, and socio-economic European landscapes.
Agroecology-TRANSECT will: The project will assess how policy instruments facilitate or limit the expansion of agroecology, and will provide a comprehensive set of scale-specific policy recommendations for unfolding the potential of agroecology from regional to EU levels. By overcoming current bio-technical, social, and political lock-ins, Agroecology-TRANSECT will support the achievement of relevant targets of key EU policies such as the Common Agricultural Policy, the Green Deal, and the Farm to Fork Strategy.Agroecology-TRANSECT objectives
