ALL-Facts

Agroecology Living Labs for accelerating transition

Duration: 05/2025 - 04/2028 (tbc)

Summary

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 (theme 2.1)

Support a network of 11 ALLs already existing (3 Italian, 1 Spanish, 1 German, 1 French, 3 Dutch) or emerging (1 French, 1 Romanian) at territorial levels in 6 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 (theme 2.3) using 2 methodologies: i) APES Framework (Agroecological Practices to assess Ecosystem Services) and participatory mapping methodology at territorial level; ii) 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 (theme 2.6).

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 (theme 2.5).

Source: Paola Migliorini

This is possible by selecting partners with specific skills and experience to address the challenges contained in these subtopics. The work will be organized into 6 WPs and 4 phases (understanding, monitoring and evaluation, implementation, co-creation and upscaling):

WP1 Agroecology practices in living labs – ALL provide a collaborative platform for identifying, testing and evaluating agroecological practices and transition pathways that enhance sustainability and resilience at territorial and landscape levels.

WP2 Integrated assessment of ALLs at landscape level – evaluating and monitoring of the socio-economic impacts and ecosystem services of the proposed practices through comparison of ex-ante and ex-post situations.

WP3 Policies for agroecological territories – review of the EU, national and subnational policies related to key social-ecological characteristics of the diverse ALLs and food systems of the project.

WP4 Scaling agroecological transition across Europe - connecting ALLs to cross-fertilize knowledge and strategies to help facilitate the scaling of agroecological practices to the landscape and territorial levels.

WP5 Communication, dissemination and exploitation - 3 partner meetings, Project webpages, dissemination materials, Agroecology for Europe HUB, European Forums for Agroecology & Ambassador event, connection with European Agroecology Partnership & international Agroecology Coalition.

WP6 Project management and implementation - data management, quality management, risk management ALL-Facts will provide spaces for long-term, site-specific, multi-stakeholder and real-life results and will deliver ready-to adopt solutions for positive economic, environmental and social impacts.

Coordinator

Paola Migliorini

University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG), ITALY

Email: p.migliorini@unisg.it

Source: Marcello Marengo

Partners

Mariangela Diacono - Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA-AA Bari), ITALY

Alexander Wezel - ISARA Agro School For Life, FRANCE

Lea Minier - VEGEPOLYS VALLEY, FRANCE

Laura Perez - The Regional Chamber of Agriculture of Pays de la Loire, FRANCE

Tanja Mimmo - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (UNIBZ), ITALY

Andreas Thiel - University of Kassel, GERMANY

Patricia Calvo - Center For Scientific and Technological Research of Extremadura (CICYTEX), SPAIN

Helena Freitas - University of Coimbra (UC), PORTUGAL

Salma Loudiyi - VetAgro Sup, FRANCE

Cristina Grandi - The Italian Foundation for Research in Organic and Biodynamic Agriculture (FIRAB), ITALY

Attila Miklos Szocs Boruss - Asociatia Acces la Pamant pentru Agroecologie (ALPA – Land for Life), ROMANIA

Margriet Goris - Wageningen University & Research (WUR) - Wageningen Plant Research, NETHERLANDS

Jessica Duncan - Wageningen University & Research (WUR), NETHERLANDS

Esther Mieves - The Association of Organic Farming in Hesse (VÖL), GERMANY

Mireia Llorente - Entretantos Foundation, SPAIN

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Corn field: Photo by Jesse Gardner on Unsplash

Corn cobs: Photo by Christophe Maertens on Unsplash