Agroecology

Agroecology – European Partnership on Accelerating Farming Systems Transition: Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures

With the aim of supporting an agricultural sector capable of responding to the goals and challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, food security and sovereignty, and environmental protection, while ensuring profitable and attractive activity for farmers, Agroecology brings together the resources of its partners to fund excellent research, generating knowledge and appropriate technologies in line with the central themes of the partnership and its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda.

This co-funded partnership brings together 72 organizations from 26 countries , aligning national programs to strengthen research and innovation on a pan-European scale. Agroecology will structure and support a network of living labs and research infrastructures that accelerate the transition to sustainable agricultural practices that respect the climate and ecosystems, with a view to:

enable a better understanding of agroecological processes from the farm to the landscape;
foster locally based innovation in co-creative environments;
improve the flow and absorption of knowledge and innovation in agroecology.

FCT and INIAV – National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research, IP, are the Portuguese organizations that are part of Agroecology.

This initiative has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Program. Grant Agreement No. 101132349.