Horizon Agrifood: Farm Biodiversity for Food Security
Funds two €6M research consortia that quantify agrobiodiversity's payoff and build the tools and finance to help farmers adopt it profitably.
Horizon Agrifood: Farm Biodiversity for Food Security is a European Commission call that funds two €6M research consortia quantifying agrobiodiversity's payoff and building the tools and finance to help farmers adopt it profitably. Genetic and species diversity is what lets a farm bend instead of break — under drought, pests, disease, or a bad season. But the trend has run the other way: bigger, m…
Quantifying what farm-level agrobiodiversity (including soil microorganisms) really delivers for yield, nutrition, and resilience to pests, disease and other stress, and turning that into tools farmers can use: a decision-support tool for the risk of diversifying, tested private-finance instruments like nature credits, concrete risk-mitigation guidance, and routes to process, store and market non-conventional crops and local breeds. Work must take a multi-actor approach with farmers and land managers directly involved, and stays below TRL 4 — this funds analysis, tools and strategy, not new technology.
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