HEStaff exchange2024–2027

ACROPICS · Agroecological crop protection: towards international co-innovation dynamics and evidence of sustainability

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration: 2024-01-01 → 2027-12-31
EU contribution: €1,656,000
Participants: 18
Scheme: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-SE

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Project objective

ACROPICS addresses the need for sustainable agricultural practices that use little to no harmful crop protection inputs.ACROPICS (1) reinforces 12 place-based co-innovation initiatives involving local actors implementing agroecological crop protection (ACP), (2) connects these initiatives to each other and to research & innovation teams worldwide, (3) produces scientific evidence of the sustainability of ACP systems, (4) supports these initiatives via international research and innovation actions, (5) highlights these initiatives at the international level, and (6) contributes to creating and training an intersectoral network of teams and (future) experts promoting ACP. ACROPICS associates 15 organisations (12 academic, 3 non-academic) with biological, ecological and social science expertise. It plans staff exchanges among academia, biocontrol industries and 12 sustainable agriculture systems (SAS) in 10 countries. Collaborative activities will (1) co-design and implement innovation strategies (coupling ecological, technical and organisational/institutional innovations in an innovation push/pull approach), (2) produce knowledge enabling ACP innovations (certification schemes, ecological infrastructures, etc.), and (3) produce sustainability assessments and communicate them to a wide range of stakeholders, from growers to policy-makers and investors. Expected results and impacts are: the creation of a core team of an emerging large-scale international initiative on ACP; drastic increases of sustainability in 12 systems covering main crop types and further impact on >100 similar systems worldwide via dissemination in connected networks; state-of-the art research results promoting ACP; training of future researchers with hybrid expertise adapted to the challenges faced by ACP; engagement of a large number stakeholders across food value chains; demonstration and exploitation of new innovations ranging from certification schemes to biocontrol products and services.

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Participants

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT · ParisCoordinatorFrance
AGROBIO SL · La MojoneraSpain
BIOBEST GROUP NV · WesterloBelgium
CENTRE DE COOPERATION INTERNATIONALE EN RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE POUR LEDEVELOPPEMENT - C.I.R.A.D. EPIC · ParisFrance
DR. YASHWANT SINGH PARMAR UNIVERSITY OF HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY · SOLANIndia
ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES SCIENCES AGRONOMIQUES DE BORDEAUX AQUITAINE · GradignanFrance
INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET INDUSTRIES DU VIVANT ET DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT - AGROPARISTECH · PalaiseauFrance
INSTITUT SENEGALAIS DE RECHERCHES AGRICOLES · DakarSenegal
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGAÇAO AGRARIA E VETERINARIA · OeirasPortugal
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGIA AGROPECUARIA · Buenos AiresArgentina
Institute of Plant and Environment Protection, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences · BeijingChina
LES VIGNERONS DE BUZET SOCIETE COOPERATIVE AGRICOLE · BUZET SUR BAISEFrance
RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · GroningenNetherlands
ROYAL UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE · Phnom PenhCambodia
UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL MAULE · TalcaChile
UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO · MendozaArgentina
UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRONOMICE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA DIN BUCURESTI · BucurestiRomania
UNIVERSITE COTE D'AZUR · NiceFrance

ACROPICS · Agroecological crop protection: towards international co-innovation dynamics and evidence of sustainability

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