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Description
Climate Smart Agriculture offers an integrative whole-farming system approach to respond effectively to climate related challenges in European agriculture. It is based on practices contributing to increasing agricultural productivity while adapting and building resilience to climate change and reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions. However, strengthening connections and mutual learning between farmers, advisors, and research is essential to accelerate this transition to climate smart agriculture across Europe.
Three large-scale Horizon Europe projects—Climate Farm Demo (CFD), Climate Smart Advisors (CSA), and Climate Smart Research (CSR)—jointly address this challenge. CFD connects 1,500 pilot demo farmers and their advisors across 28 countries, fostering peer-to-peer learning, testing innovations in real farm conditions, and demonstrating climate smart practices in more than 4,500 demonstration events. CSA mobilizes the European advisory community by creating 260 Communities of Practice, training 1,500 advisors, and strengthening advisory capacity to support systemic farm-level transitions. CSR engages 29 Experimental Research Stations to co-develop integrated approaches for mitigation, adaptation, and productivity, validate decision-support tools, and embed practice-oriented innovations into EU and national AKIS networks.
Together, by co-organizing multiple activities, these projects create a climate smart agriculture knowledge and innovation system (CS-AKIS), where farmers, advisors and researchers at regional, national and EU level join together. By linking these actors, and strengthening their capacities, the projects foster cross-border knowledge flows and co-creation, ultimately accelerating the transition to climate smart agriculture.
| If your abstract is not accepted for an oral presentation, would you be interested in presenting it as a poster instead? | Yes |
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| If accepted by the Scientific Board, I agree to have my presentation/poster and abstract published on the Belgian Climate Centre websites and social media. | Yes |
