Work package 6: Strategies, methods and tools to sustain crop diversification all along the value chain

(c) FiBL — Mixed cropping (peas and barley) on an organic farm in Switzerland. Photo: FiBL

WP6 will develop comprehensive and long-term strategies, recommendations and tools to promote the adoption of crop diversification within the current sociotechnical system. This work package will: i) set up a Stakeholder Platform to monitor project outcomes and develop recommendations for relevant sectors along the value chain; ii) evaluate existing, and devel-op improved decision support and learning tools that help farmers and advisors assessing various diversification alternatives; iii) propose professional training and education strategies adapted to enable and increase crop diversification; iv) set up, with local public and regional managers, a roadmap to include cropping system diversification as a key target in their strategies; and v) propose, with national and European managers, agricultural policy instruments and economic incentives that can be implemented to foster crop diversification in the long term.

Contact

Anja Vieweger, ORC, Work package leader
Sylvain Sturel, APCA, Work package co-leader