ENABLING CROP DIVERSIFICATION TO SUPPORT TRANSITIONS TOWARD MORE SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS
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| author | Antoine MESSÉAN, Loïc VIGUIER, Lise PARESYS, Jean-Noël AUBERTOT, Stefano CANALI, Pietro IANNETTA, Eric JUSTES, Alison KARLEY, Beatrix KEILLOR, Laura KEMPER, Frédéric MUEL, Barbara PANCINO, Didier STILMANT, Christine WATSON, Helga WILLER, Raúl ZORNOZA |
| author_facet | Antoine MESSÉAN, Loïc VIGUIER, Lise PARESYS, Jean-Noël AUBERTOT, Stefano CANALI, Pietro IANNETTA, Eric JUSTES, Alison KARLEY, Beatrix KEILLOR, Laura KEMPER, Frédéric MUEL, Barbara PANCINO, Didier STILMANT, Christine WATSON, Helga WILLER, Raúl ZORNOZA |
| author_sort | Antoine MESSÉAN, Loïc VIGUIER, Lise PARESYS, Jean-Noël AUBERTOT, Stefano CANALI, Pietro IANNETTA, Eric JUSTES, Alison KARLEY, Beatrix KEILLOR, Laura KEMPER, Frédéric MUEL, Barbara PANCINO, Didier STILMANT, Christine WATSON, Helga WILLER, Raúl ZORNOZA |
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| description | <List><ListItem><ItemContent><p>• Crop diversification is a dynamic pathway towards sustainable agrifood systems.</p></ItemContent></ListItem><ListItem><ItemContent><p>• Technological and institutional barriers restrict uptake of crop diversification.</p></ItemContent></ListItem><ListItem><ItemContent><p>• More coordination and cooperation among agrifood system stakeholders is required.</p></ItemContent></ListItem><ListItem><ItemContent><p>• The European Crop Diversification Cluster calls for multiactor networks.</p></ItemContent></ListItem></List></p><p>European cropping systems are often characterized by short rotations or even monocropping, leading to environmental issues such as soil degradation, water eutrophication, and air pollution including greenhouse gas emissions, that contribute to climate change and biodiversity loss. The use of diversification practices (i.e., intercropping, multiple cropping including cover cropping and rotation extension), may help enhance agrobiodiversity and deliver ecosystem services while developing new value chains. Despite its benefits, crop diversification is hindered by various technical, organizational, and institutional barriers along value chains (input industries, farms, trading and processing industries, retailers, and consumers) and within sociotechnical systems (policy, research, education, regulation and advisory). Six EU-funded research projects have joined forces to boost crop diversification by creating the European Crop Diversification Cluster (CDC). This Cluster aggregates research, innovation, commercial and citizen-focused partnerships to identify and remove barriers across the agrifood system and thus enables the uptake of diversification measures by all European value-chain stakeholders. The CDC will produce a typology of barriers, develop tools to accompany actors in their transition, harmonize the use of multicriteria assessment indicators, prepare policy recommendations and pave the way for a long-term network on crop diversification. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-17b00908394d46349598d883ba26cee32023-07-05T10:09:48ZengHigher Education PressFrontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering2095-75052021-09-018347448010.15302/J-FASE-2021406ENABLING CROP DIVERSIFICATION TO SUPPORT TRANSITIONS TOWARD MORE SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN AGRIFOOD SYSTEMSAntoine MESSÉAN, Loïc VIGUIER, Lise PARESYS, Jean-Noël AUBERTOT, Stefano CANALI, Pietro IANNETTA, Eric JUSTES, Alison KARLEY, Beatrix KEILLOR, Laura KEMPER, Frédéric MUEL, Barbara PANCINO, Didier STILMANT, Christine WATSON, Helga WILLER, Raúl ZORNOZA01. French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Eco-Innov, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France.;2. French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), UMR AGIR, Toulouse, France.;3. Council for Agricultural Research and Economics-Research Centre for Agriculture and Environment (CREA-AA), 00184 Rome, Italy.;4. The James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, DD2 5DA, UK.;5. French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), Persyst Department, F-34398 Montpellier, France.;6. Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), 5070 Frick, Switzerland.;7. Terres Inovia, F-78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France.;8. University of Tuscia, Department of Economics, Engineering, Society and Business Organization, 01100 Viterbo, Italy.;9. Wallon Agricultural Research Centre (CRA-W), Sustainability, systems and prospectives Department, B-6800 Libramont, Belgium.;10. Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Craibstone Estate, Aberdeen AB21 9YA, UK.;11. Technical University of Cartagena, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Cartagena, Spain.<List><ListItem><ItemContent><p>• Crop diversification is a dynamic pathway towards sustainable agrifood systems.</p></ItemContent></ListItem><ListItem><ItemContent><p>• Technological and institutional barriers restrict uptake of crop diversification.</p></ItemContent></ListItem><ListItem><ItemContent><p>• More coordination and cooperation among agrifood system stakeholders is required.</p></ItemContent></ListItem><ListItem><ItemContent><p>• The European Crop Diversification Cluster calls for multiactor networks.</p></ItemContent></ListItem></List></p><p>European cropping systems are often characterized by short rotations or even monocropping, leading to environmental issues such as soil degradation, water eutrophication, and air pollution including greenhouse gas emissions, that contribute to climate change and biodiversity loss. The use of diversification practices (i.e., intercropping, multiple cropping including cover cropping and rotation extension), may help enhance agrobiodiversity and deliver ecosystem services while developing new value chains. Despite its benefits, crop diversification is hindered by various technical, organizational, and institutional barriers along value chains (input industries, farms, trading and processing industries, retailers, and consumers) and within sociotechnical systems (policy, research, education, regulation and advisory). Six EU-funded research projects have joined forces to boost crop diversification by creating the European Crop Diversification Cluster (CDC). This Cluster aggregates research, innovation, commercial and citizen-focused partnerships to identify and remove barriers across the agrifood system and thus enables the uptake of diversification measures by all European value-chain stakeholders. The CDC will produce a typology of barriers, develop tools to accompany actors in their transition, harmonize the use of multicriteria assessment indicators, prepare policy recommendations and pave the way for a long-term network on crop diversification.https://academic.hep.com.cn/fase/fileup/2095-7505/PDF/30013/1624242919638-366314179.pdfcrop rotation|lock-in|intercropping|multiple cropping|networking |
| spellingShingle | Antoine MESSÉAN, Loïc VIGUIER, Lise PARESYS, Jean-Noël AUBERTOT, Stefano CANALI, Pietro IANNETTA, Eric JUSTES, Alison KARLEY, Beatrix KEILLOR, Laura KEMPER, Frédéric MUEL, Barbara PANCINO, Didier STILMANT, Christine WATSON, Helga WILLER, Raúl ZORNOZA ENABLING CROP DIVERSIFICATION TO SUPPORT TRANSITIONS TOWARD MORE SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering crop rotation|lock-in|intercropping|multiple cropping|networking |
| title | ENABLING CROP DIVERSIFICATION TO SUPPORT TRANSITIONS TOWARD MORE SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS |
| title_full | ENABLING CROP DIVERSIFICATION TO SUPPORT TRANSITIONS TOWARD MORE SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS |
| title_fullStr | ENABLING CROP DIVERSIFICATION TO SUPPORT TRANSITIONS TOWARD MORE SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS |
| title_full_unstemmed | ENABLING CROP DIVERSIFICATION TO SUPPORT TRANSITIONS TOWARD MORE SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS |
| title_short | ENABLING CROP DIVERSIFICATION TO SUPPORT TRANSITIONS TOWARD MORE SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN AGRIFOOD SYSTEMS |
| title_sort | enabling crop diversification to support transitions toward more sustainable european agrifood systems |
| topic | crop rotation|lock-in|intercropping|multiple cropping|networking |
| url | https://academic.hep.com.cn/fase/fileup/2095-7505/PDF/30013/1624242919638-366314179.pdf |
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