This consortium applies a transdisciplinary and systemic approach and addresses the problems and challenges of agro-food systems in Europe and beyond. It is based on existing and new agroecology living labs (ALL) with multi-actors and focuses on agroecological practices of diversification in farming and food systems to evaluate their impact on ecosystem services at the landscape level as well as evaluate and develop governance approaches and policies for their sustainable upscaling to the territorial level. In order to do that it will:
- Select the best-suited agroecology practices adapted to the landscape/territorial level for agrifood system diversification
- Support a network of 11 ALLs already existing (three Italian, one Spanish, one German, one French, three Dutch) or emerging (one French, one Romanian) at territorial levels in six different EU countries and 5 pedoclimatics zones and promote upscaling of agroecology and accelerate the agroecology transition.
- Perform an integrated assessment of the socio-economic impacts and ES of the proposed practices using two methodologies: a) APES Framework (Agroecological Practices to assess Ecosystem Services) and participatory mapping methodology at territorial level; b) Me4ALL Framework (Monitoring and Evaluation for ALLs).
- Identify the most promising governance processes and multi-level policies to support an upscaling of ALLs to the landscape level and beyond.
- Co-create solutions by relying on a participatory approach for re-designing agroecosystems at the territorial level. By integrating ecosystem services, socio-political and economic aspects we will identify transition paths specific for each territory and that way shape exemplary territories for upscaling co-learning and imitation across Europe.
