AgEnRes’ Post

🌱 Meet Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), a key partner in the AgEnRes project! 🚜 IAMO is an internationally oriented research institute that is engaged in fundamental and application-oriented research as well as knowledge transfer addressing the development of the agri-food system and rural areas in transition economies of Europe and Asia. IAMO's contributions are instrumental in shaping sustainable agricultural practices for a greener future! 🌍 #AgEnRes #Sustainability #Agriculture #IAMO #Research Wageningen Economic Research Wageningen University & Research Agricultural University of Athens Geonardo Environmental Technologies International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) INRAE Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie AgroApps PC E3-Modelling Energy-Economy-Environment SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Università di Trento Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL BESTMAP

🌿 Welcome to AgEnRes! 🌍 As we kick off this exciting project, we invite you to join us in reshaping the future of European agriculture. Let's start with a quick introduction to what AgEnRes is all about! 🚜 What is AgEnRes? 🤔  AgEnRes is a Horizon Europe project dedicated to revolutionising agriculture by reducing dependence on fossil fuels and fertilizers. Our goal is to create sustainable, resilient, and environmentally friendly farming practices. 💡 Why does it matter?  By understanding the complexities of agricultural systems, we aim to provide farmers and policymakers with the tools they need to make informed decisions, ensuring the economic prosperity and well-being of farming communities. 🌍 Where's the impact happening?  With a focus on European agriculture, AgEnRes employs a comprehensive approach, integrating data and models to address the challenges faced by sector. AgEnRes takes a holistic approach to European agriculture, utilizing integrated data and models to tackle the sector's pressing challenges. 👩🌾 Who's in the Crew? 👨🌾  We are a consortium of 13 dedicated partners, bringing together expertise from various fields to drive positive change in European farming. Stay tuned for upcoming posts where you'll get to know each member of our passionate team! 📅 What is the duration of the project?  Kicking off on the 1st of January 2024, AgEnRes will unfold over the next 4 years, concluding on the 31st of December 2027. It's a journey towards a more sustainable and resilient agricultural sector. Excited Yet? Keep a close eye on our updates! Join us in this transformative journey for European agriculture, shaping a stronger, greener future for all! 🌱💚 #AgricultureTransformation #Sustainability #Resilience #HorizonEurope Wageningen University & Research Wageningen Economic Research Agricultural University of Athens Geonardo Environmental Technologies International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) INRAE Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie AgroApps PCE3-Modelling Energy-Economy-Environment SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Università di Trento Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL BESTMAP AGRICORE Project BrightSpace Horizon Europe Project MIND STEP Project

🌟 Continuing our #IntroducingThePartners series, let's meet Geonardo Environmental Technologies! 🏛️ GEONARDO is dedicated to maximizing project visibility, spreading information, and fostering engagement in AgEnRes activities.Their main focus lies in Communication, Dissemination, and Exploitation of project results. 🌍 Through various tasks such as developing communication strategies, creating materials and communication tools, and facilitating joint actions towards target audiences, GEONARDO ensures that the project's outcomes reach diverse stakeholders, including the scientific community, policymakers, and the wider public. 💡 #AgEnRes #Sustainability #Agriculture #Farming #Sustainability #HorizonEurope Wageningen Economic Research Wageningen University & Research Agricultural University of Athens Geonardo Environmental Technologies International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) INRAE Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie AgroApps PC E3-Modelling Energy-Economy-Environment SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Università di Trento Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL BESTMAP AGRICORE Project BrightSpace Horizon Europe Project

Proud to be the coordinator of the (in short) Agriculture Energy Resilience project (AgEnRes). As recent years have shown, unfortunately, extreme price volatility of fossil fuels and mineral fertilizers happens and it can happen again. High and volatile prices of these inputs impacts investment behavior, farm income, resilience of the agricultural sector as whole and food security. Investments in less fossil-fuel-intensive technologies in the EU agricultural sector will take time meaning that impacts of high prices of fossil fuels and mineral fertilizers will not disappear in the short term. Therefore it is not only important to develop investment pathways to improve farm energy and fertilizer productivity, but it is also important to develop meaningful input price risk management instruments to increase the resilience to volatile energy prices. The AgEnRes consortium consists of a great team of economic, technical and environmental researchers of financial and behavioral economists and micro and macro data and modeling specialist. I am confident that we will come up with integrated assessments and policy design that will increase on farm energy and fertilizer productivity, decrease emissions to the environment and improve farmers income.

So far, the water quality of the Gulf of Bothnia has been better than in the rest of the Baltic Sea but it has been estimated that the climate change will have an negative affect on the water quality. Learn more about the #InterregAurora funded project SustainableNutrients.

Are you interested in policies and innovations relating to (fossil) energy and mineral fertiliser use in EU agriculture? 🌱⚡ Join my colleagues and me at the upcoming workshops! #AgEnRes #Agriculture #Energy #Innovation #Policy #CAP

Last but not least remark from our excellent reviewers: Tessa Avermaete, Martin Schönhart and Eduard Matveev. "Policy recommendations are provided in several deliverables. It is advised to bundle these recommendations in (short) policy briefs." Thank you for pushing this a little! For communication and dissemination, we also provide extended summaries of almost all MIND STEP deliverables. All available on the website. Besides a large and still counting number of scientific publications, I hope this further improves Stakeholder engagement. With MIND STEP we contributed to include farm level decision making models into the macro-micro modelling chain frequently used by the European Commission. We pointed at differences between farms and stressed that (mitigation) policies can only be cost efficient if they are differentiated per farm or farm type. However, still a long way to go, to have all this implemented in the perfect agricultural sector model consisting of interconnected models of individual producers and consumers, to support policy design, necessary impact assessments and bring stakeholders in the agricultural sector together for discussion. Hopefully we can make further steps in our new Horizon project AgEnRes.

👀 What’s better than just the EWA-BELT - a EU Horizon2020 Project General Assembly reuniting all the partners of the Consortium in Italy? Well, a two-days related #scenario #workshop to discuss about the upscale of the project’s results and achievements. 📅 September 25-26, 2024, Milan, Italy. Stay tuned to learn more about the programme of the week and the speakers! 👉 Visit www.ewabelt.eu to discover more about the project! Università degli Studi di Sassari, ACRA, Cranfield University, Université Nazi Boni, #INERA, University Of Makeni (UNIMAK), Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO), University of Nairobi, Hawassa University, Jimma University, OCCAM, the Observatory on Digital Communication in special Consultative status at UN ECOSOC, CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, CIFOR-ICRAF, CIRAD, STMicroelectronics Italia, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), #IRD, #KDC, #TARI, Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) ** 🌾Linking East and West African farming systems experience into a BELT of sustainable intensification ** 🇪🇺 This Project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 862848. The opinion stated in this video reflects the opinion of the authors and not the opinion of the European Commission. All intellectual property rights are owned by EWA-BELT consortium members and are protected by the applicable laws. Reproduction is not authorized without prior written agreement. The commercial use of any information contained in this document may require a license from the owner of that information. ** Website: ewabelt.eu  Facebook: ewabelt.project  Instagram: ewabelt_project  X: ewabelt_project  LinkedIn: showcase/ewa-belt YouTube: sfs35 **

Check out MIND STEP Project latest policy brief! 💚 👉

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