TY - JOUR
T1 - Enabling crop diversification to support transitions toward more sustainable European agrifood systems
AU - Messéan, Antoine
AU - Viguier, Loïc
AU - Paresys, Lise
AU - Aubertot, Jean Noël
AU - Canali, Stefano
AU - Iannetta, Pietro
AU - Justes, Eric
AU - Karley, Alison
AU - Keillor, Beatrix
AU - Kemper, Laura
AU - Muel, Frédéric
AU - Pancino, Barbara
AU - Stilmant, Didier
AU - Watson, Christine
AU - Willer, Helga
AU - Zornoza, Raúl
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Higher Education Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - European cropping systems are often characterized by short rotations or even monocropping, leading to environmental issues such as soil degradation, water eutrophication, and air pollution including greenhouse gas emissions, that contribute to climate change and biodiversity loss. The use of diversification practices (i.e., intercropping, multiple cropping including cover cropping and rotation extension), may help enhance agrobiodiversity and deliver ecosystem services while developing new value chains. Despite its benefits, crop diversification is hindered by various technical, organizational, and institutional barriers along value chains (input industries, farms, trading and processing industries, retailers, and consumers) and within sociotechnical systems (policy, research, education, regulation and advisory). Six EU-funded research projects have joined forces to boost crop diversification by creating the European Crop Diversification Cluster (CDC). This Cluster aggregates research, innovation, commercial and citizen-focused partnerships to identify and remove barriers across the agrifood system and thus enables the uptake of diversification measures by all European value-chain stakeholders.
AB - European cropping systems are often characterized by short rotations or even monocropping, leading to environmental issues such as soil degradation, water eutrophication, and air pollution including greenhouse gas emissions, that contribute to climate change and biodiversity loss. The use of diversification practices (i.e., intercropping, multiple cropping including cover cropping and rotation extension), may help enhance agrobiodiversity and deliver ecosystem services while developing new value chains. Despite its benefits, crop diversification is hindered by various technical, organizational, and institutional barriers along value chains (input industries, farms, trading and processing industries, retailers, and consumers) and within sociotechnical systems (policy, research, education, regulation and advisory). Six EU-funded research projects have joined forces to boost crop diversification by creating the European Crop Diversification Cluster (CDC). This Cluster aggregates research, innovation, commercial and citizen-focused partnerships to identify and remove barriers across the agrifood system and thus enables the uptake of diversification measures by all European value-chain stakeholders.
KW - Crop rotation
KW - Intercropping
KW - Lock-in
KW - Multiple cropping
KW - Networking
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U2 - 10.15302/J-FASE-2021406
DO - 10.15302/J-FASE-2021406
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85122949019
SN - 2095-7505
VL - 8
SP - 474
EP - 480
JO - Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
JF - Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
IS - 3
ER -
