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Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI)
Framework
Field of research:
Adaptation to climate change
Sub-fields of research:
Integrated food systems and the bioeconomy perspective, combining biophysical and socio-economic modeling with policy research perspective
Integrated risk analysis of the European agriculture (and food systems) under climate change: test responses to volatility both from natural and market phenomena
Global change impact and resilience of food systems (through the value chain and to the consumer)
Europe’s role in international markets, price volatility, global food security impacts
Develop contrasted scenarios involving perceptions and policy dialogue
Combine observations, experiments and modeling through the development of appropriate European research infrastructures
Field of research:
Sustainable food security under climate change
Sub-fields of research:
Providing new approaches for improving farm management and for the sustainable intensification of agricultural systems, but also for low-input high nature value systems in Europe under current and future climate and resource availability
Understanding recent yield trends in Europe, taking into account changes in costs and prices and research investments as well as changes in environment, management and genotypes
Benchmarking efficiencies of resource use (water, land, nitrogen, energy) according to Genotype x Environment (including climate) x Management combinations across Europe
Assessing and raising biological resource use efficiency of crop and livestock systems; increasing total factor productivity
Combining crop, livestock and bioenergy systems for sustainable intensification
Low input, higher efficiency seeds and breeds
Knowledge based IT innovations in agriculture
Improved understanding and control of soil functioning and biotic interactions at field to landscape scales
Field of research:
Assessing and reducing trade-offs between food supply, biodiversity and ecosystem services
Sub-fields of research:
Providing new approaches to the increased use of functional biodiversity in agricultural systems (e.g. intercropping, mixtures, conservation agriculture...)
Developing methods for assessing and valuing biodiversity and ecosystem goods and services (e.g. carbon sequestration, water storage...) in intensive agricultural systems
Developing approaches for optimising the trade-off between agriculture and ecosystem services in a variable environment (climate change, volatility...) and at farm scale and landscape scale
Developing a solid knowledge basis for the provision of public goods by European agriculture, so that ecosystem services are delivered efficiently and effectively
Field of research:
Environmentally sustainable growth and intensification of agriculture
Sub-fields of research:
Adaptation to climate change and increased climatic variability throughout the whole food chain, including market repercussions
Tailoring adapted regional production systems under climate change
Adapting seeds and breeds through conventional breeding and biotechnology to new combinations of environment and management: e.g. abiotic stresses, elevated CO2
Monitoring pests and diseases and developing climate-informed crop and animal protection
Adaptive water management in agriculture, watershed management, flood management, irrigation technologies, water re-use
Adapting food processing and retailing, markets and institutions to increased climatic variability and climatic change
Field of research:
Mitigation of climate change
Sub-fields of research:
Contributing to direct reductions of GHG emissions through carbon sequestration, substitution of fossil-based energy and products, and mitigation of N2O and CH4 emissions by the agriculture and forestry sector, while reducing GHG emissions associated with
Developing monitoring and verification methodologies of field, animal and farm scale GHG budgets, including, or not, indirect land use and cradle to grave life cycle
Developing verifiable GHG mitigation and carbon sequestration measures in farming systems
Developing technologies and methods to substitute fossil-fuel energy through increased use of biomass and other renewable energies in the agriculture sector without jeopardising food security