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ClieNFarms

Challenges

ClieNFarms project aims to demonstrate, evaluate and improve technical, organisational and financial solutions at the farm level that will contribute to achieving climate-neutrality of European agriculture by 2050.

 

Planned innovation & aims

The central operational focus of ClieNFarms is the case-study structure that will allow a strong empowerment of farmers and supply chain accompanied by a smooth dissemination and replication of the tested innovations.

The project is vastly innovative as aims to:

  1. integrate different solutions to embrace mixed crop farming systems and animal production;
  2. account for biogeophysical effects associated with changes in management practices in order to promote the synergies between the biogeochemical effects and the biogeophysical effects;
  3. move from farm level to (eco)sytem level either through farm networks or by involving supply chains in a multi-actor designed process;
  4. validate integrative solutions and to develop the required financial incentives to engage farmers in the required transition

 

Implementation

The central operational focus of ClieNFarms is the case-study structure that will allow a strong empowerment of farmers and supply chain accompanied by a smooth dissemination and replication of the tested innovations. Called I3S (Innovative Systemic Solutions Space) the demonstration structure is based on demonstration farms, lead commercial farms, outreach farms and replicate farms working all together with the supply chain in a living-lab like structure approach. Gladbacherhof (Lehr- und Versuchsbetrieb der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) is one of the I3S and is responsible for coordinating activities on the subject of organic dairy farming.    

 

Lead Partner

The project is coordinated by INRAE, France and has several partner institutions in Europe and New Zealand.

Professor Dr. Andreas Gattinger and Dr Deise Knob share project coordination at Gladbacherhof.

 

Members of the operational group (OG)

 

Project duration

 01/2022 – 12/2025

 

Funding